Game 22: Dallas Mavericks (6-15) vs. Denver Nuggets (14-5) | 8:00pm CST

[mvossman]

In hindsight, obviously the Mavs have been lacking in offense. 

But strawman much? NO ONE ever said the Mavs could "play competitive basketball without [offense being created]."

Where people disagreed with you was over (1) did the Mavs have the right talent to create offense until Kyrie returns, and (2) is offense only able to be created by a one-man show type of PG, doing all the passing, or are there multiple ways to generate offense?

We had no way of knowing that the PG talent pool would NOT include Exum at all. That made a major difference, with Kyrie already sidelined, because he had proven ability to play the position well. In addition, B Will was missing too as the season began. And then there were no C's either (!) to force the opponent to defend. 

Do you think it's now "fixed" and the Mavs have adequate talent to get by until Kyrie returns?

The only strawman is suggesting that anybody was arguing a heliocentric offense was necessary.  Nobody said that.  The argument was that you cannot replace the massive hit to offensive creation created by the Luka trade (and Kyrie injury) with an 18 year old rookie, a broken Dlo, an always injured Exum and a couple of 2 way kids.  You need high level offensive creation to be good offensively and the Mavs are sorely lacking it.  Exum is not a high level creator.  He was not going to make that big of a difference and he is always hurt.  Even when Kyrie comes back its going to be an issue.  It has to be the top priority for draft and trades.