MAVS NEWS:

[Nowitzki Way]

Oh, sure they will! It’s just that you and I see different strategies for how to deal with that. 

You seem to care about matching up with them, whereas I see an opportunity to punish them easily for even attempting to play some slow-footed, single-brain-cell dinosaur in a basketball game against my team of movers and shooters. 

Earlier this season, I claimed that I would not be scared one bit of playing the Minnesota Timberwolves in a seven game series. I am actually more frightened of that prospect now than I was before the trade deadline, because the economics of the mavericks roster indicate that they believe as you do, that you have to throw big players at KAT, Gobert and Reid. That seems silly to me, because we literally watched our own mavericks team create the blueprint for how to beat Gobert, and it involved Kleber hitting 8 threes from the corner in a single game and Gobert looking like he did not even belong in the NBA.

They WANT you to try to matchup with their size. That is their entire strategy. That is how they beat you. They have zigged, and the way to beat them is to zag. Plus, it’s just a cooler way of playing basketball that is 1000 times more fun to watch.

Your strategy is not wrong, its quite genius. We've ran the Goberts and the Zubacs off the court in playoff series of past. 

But we dont have 2021 Maxi anymore. We dont have anyone capable of playing small ball 5 and drawing out those bigs.  We would need to play straight up, and if so we'd get killed on the inside.

Now we have a more fighting chance with Gafford/Washington.  Of course, if Maxi continues playing like he is, we'll probably end up playing closer to your style.