01-05-2026, 01:47 AM
(01-05-2026, 12:24 AM)F Gump Wrote: You say winning was their goal. And they won the game. Fact. Against a much better team, even. Another Fact.
So however they got there, they were successful BY THEIR STANDARD, wouldn't you agree? Or are you saying we erase it because they didn't do X, Y, and Z the right way in achieving what you say was their goal?
Style points missing, oh me oh my. Of our own creation, too, because we don't know ANYTHING about the Mavs sub-agendas for this game - if any. They messed up and won the wrong way!!!!! Help!!!!!!
Based on this logic, if a team wins a game then they were perfect. You can't question anything they did during that game. You do realize how simplistic this logic is, right? If a team employs a method that loses 9 out of 10 games are you going to argue that it was a great method for the one game they won?
Win/loss is not a good metric for lineup effectiveness. Lineup net rating is significantly more useful. 10 minutes is a very small sample and won't tell you much about whether that lineup will be effective in the future, but it will tell you if it was effective in sample. It was not. For the season we actually have a decent (way too big) size sample and the signal is incredibly strong. Playing without a PG has been consistently wildly ineffective.