(01-04-2021, 12:21 AM)mavsluvr Wrote: Carlisle doesn’t think excuses should be made for the performance, so I won’t offer any. But if both Luka and KP are missing for any substantial period of the season at all, I will have to re-assess my evaluation of their likely success. Good health and a speedy return to both of them!
The Mavs now face Houston in a back-to-back. Yikes. Luka is day-to-day, so will be evaluated in the morning for availability in that match. Keeping my fingers crossed!
Okay, Mavs fans. Let’s hope for the best against the Rockets.
Sigh
Quote:Carlisle allowed that the Bulls won because they played better than his team did. While admitting that Chicago made some “hellacious” shots, he observed that his Mavs “shot themselves in the foot” by failing to rebound, failing to recover 50-50 balls, and not hitting their free throws. He did give Brunson a shout-out, complimenting his point guard for being “always ready.”
I hate to beat the drum I stopped beating but I will for a moment just to release some of my own steam from watching this situation. The alternate plan here could have been to actually run some offense around my man Marjanovic, an elite offensive threat.
Instead he's completely wasted imo. You throw him in the game for 7 little minutes to have him run around and set picks and screens for the wings then try to get in position for garbage rebounds behind a bunch of smaller guys.
Seriously, why bother to play him at all in that role? Did WCS, Powell & Maxi really need a 7 minute blow?
We know Bobi is often somewhat of a defensive liability, probably not much more than many of the other Mavs however, so he ends up getting monster dunked on by a guy he should have laid a hard foul on instead.
On the other end Boban doesn't ever get a chance to really go back at the little 6'10" Gafford (nice player) because he is an afterthought in his 7 minutes of Dallas offense vs Gafford in his 19 minutes.
Even in his scant 7 minutes without a lot of help from the coaching strategy, he scored 6 points on 3/4 shooting and grabbed 6 rebounds!
Bobi could be creating space and scoring for Dallas as an offensive threat, not just setting big clumsy picks out above the circle (sheesh) and picking up garbage for a few minutes.
What a monumental waste of talent, just at a time when rebounding help was needed and Brunson and Maxi could have used another scoring threat impacting the game.
