04-27-2024, 06:31 PM
(04-27-2024, 05:20 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: I guess I just don’t understand what you are trying to argue.
It is not my opinion, but rather factual, that the clippers were designed to be played in such a way where all of the players are roughly the same size. There are years and years of articles and Podcasts and evidence about that, not to mention two previous series against our team. That’s not even a conversation worth having. And yet you keep coming here every time Zubac plays, as if that wasn’t the BEGINNING plan of all the series.
I don’t understand the point you are trying to make. Can you restate it simply?
His original post kicking off the thread was basically bragging about how good the Mavs' small ball lineup was, and that teams generally wouldn't try to match them because they couldn't, not even the Clippers. What he was just saying is that the Clippers have played Zubac (and the hapless Plumlee when Zubac sat) quite a bit, which indicates that he's right from where he's sitting. What I hear you saying in rebuttal is that the Clippers' strategy isn't serving them and they'll have to change.
I would tend to agree with Jom in this instance and say that if the Clippers attempt more regular small ball lineups, the Mavs will beat them. However, if I understand where each of you is coming from, I would seem to disagree with both of you, in that I believe that, as good as the PJ-Kleber lineup is, the Mavs are even better with Lively on the court. I believe he's like an elongated version of Bam, or at the very least very soon will be. He's too athletic and long despite his size to be able truly to be played off the floor, and he's going to grow into that. That + the coaching staff giving him the green light on the three point shot he already objectively has but isn't allowed to use, and we'll have our third bona fide star. And furthermore, if Gaff plays like he did in Game 3 and most of the post-deadline regular season, he's not that much of a liability either.