Game 10: Dallas Mavericks (5-4) vs. Denver Nuggets (6-3)

[StrandedOnBeauboisHill]

It´s no different than starting PJ/DJJ last year.

Our whole team outside of Kyrie is shooting like sh*t. Thompson is our 2nd best 3pt shooter at 35.4%.

This current configuration is not working.

Right now Naji isn't the shooter that DJJ was last year which isn't a very hard bar to pass.  Denver was leaving him to double Luka last night and even when Luka found him he didn't even really look at the rim when he was open.  He's currently on pace to shoot 90 less threes than DJJ did last year which is a pretty wide gap, he needs to show more willingness to shoot.  DJJ shot well enough to make defenses pay for leaving him, Naji hasn't shown that yet.

Before the season I assumed that if Klay struggled that everyone would be asking for Grimes to start because of the way he would address last year's concerns of not having enough shooting alongside Luka and Kyrie in the starting lineup paired up with point of attach defense that we've lost since DJJ left which makes him being in the doghouse even more frustrating.  He could potentially help with bench scoring or with starting lineup defense without completely losing the outside shooting threat when moving Klay to the bench.  He is currently out best bet at shaking up the rotations (that and just getting frickin healthy).

I really like Naji but Naji/PJ are combining for like 6 threes a game at around 20%.  I hope they turn it around because I love that pairing defensively but I want to see it first.