The Rotation (2020-2021)

[fifteenth]

I will caveat to say I could be wrong but there's no evidence I have seen to show me Rick is going to go back to a rim roller next to KP. I feel like this board wants to "will" Carlisle into this type of offense where KP is the new Dirk next to a 5 but I haven't seen anything to show me he wants to do that. Every step of the way he has been going more towards small-ball.

Well, you got the wrong guy. I've been preaching 1-big with KP as the center since last preseason. This preseason, in fact, in this very thread (and other threads) I speculated that KP would be the 1-big in the starting lineup and that DP/Maxi would man the second unit. And I got a lot of pushback just for including Powell in the rotation. 

I only began to consider that Powell might start in the last few pages based on Dan's and Kam's evidence, which I find quite compelling. I find them compelling as discussion pieces about what the Mavs might be thinking, not about what I want. 

I don't buy the "no evidence" claim for two reasons. You're claiming "no evidence" for Powell in the starting lineup based on a time frame that didn't have Powell as an option. The evidence is that Powell was a starter the last time we saw him, and that the Luka/Powell pariing was lethal. Dan lists other reasons why the Mavs might be thinking this way. Kam lists lineup data that suggests the Mavs might think this way. We don't KNOW what's going to happen, but I'll say no to "no evidence". 

As far as that goes, here's one more piece of evidence that suggests returning to Powell is at least a possibility. Based on watching Sir Carlisle for more than I decade I'd suggest that 3 months or so of evidence that he likes to do things one way doesn't necessarliy mean that he'll do it that way again, especially when his chess pieces have changed a bit.

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Are we seriously going to let the number of bench chairs keep us from considering plan "Luka by himself"???

I'm disappointed in us.

I mean, JJB could sit on the floor, if he makes the team. So there's that.