TAKE DAT WIT YOU 11/11

[mvossman]

By all accounts, the Mavs are aware that these lineups are not working very well, but they think DP is the best of some rather unpalatable alternatives. 

If, as reported, their number one goal is to load-manage KP, and they are willing to give up some games to accomplish that, if necessary, then what is the better alternative? Can't be Maxi -- he's hurt. Can't be one big all the time -- too much load on KP (according to them). What do you suggest? Boban? Willie? Moses? DFS?  

I expect you to answer that you're not an NBA coach, and it's not your job to come up with solutions. None of us is an NBA coach, afaik, but if none of the knowledgeable fans can come up with a better idea, then it's quite possible that there isn't a solution, at least in the short term. 

Maybe you can come up with a suggestion? Parsing it might help us all to understand if there is a fixable problem or not.

If Kidd/FO plan was to use 2 big lineups to protect KP and to let KP do a bunch of post ups because that is what he likes, then they should have made some kind of an effort to get the personnel to implement said strategy.  Watching Luka/Powell P&R while KP is posting up has been a total shit show.  Don't know what would possess anyone to think it would be otherwise.  Maxi is the obvious alternative, but he never started while he was healthy.  Given that KP is very injury prone, Maxi is injury prone and can't play big minutes, Powell is not starter quality and not a good option for single big (even against second units) and the rest of the bigs are not really rotation material, and you clearly needed to upgrade the big rotation if you plan on running two of them out there regularly.  Letting your players hamstring the team by choosing the starting lineup has not really played out well.