10-31-2024, 10:15 PM
(10-31-2024, 10:08 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: I don’t disagree with what you are seeing, but I’d like to suggest that it might not be on the coaches. I think the stuff they have installed and have run a little bit is more sophisticated than what they have been running in recent seasons, but It takes cooperation from the guys who control the ball.
The elephant in the room is that Luka has flatly been not great to start this season, and the team is designed for him to be great. Can’t work around that with coaching at this level, really. I think that, in a way, it speaks volumes about the coaches and the roster that they have a winning record.
It feels like Mavs are better when the pace is fast. In Half court, which is typically our bread and butter, Luka is having trouble creating space and making no good answers for a defense. So a lot of the success in half court is with Kyrie.
I could be wrong but it just feels like Luka provide no good answers for defenses in our half court normally. That hasn’t happened in several games this year.