05-26-2021, 10:26 AM
(05-26-2021, 09:45 AM)Kammrath Wrote: This is such a depressing idea to me. This team is majorly flawed and Luka covers so many of them with his transcendent play. My greatest fear is the Mavs front office won't be able to see that if the Mavs beat LAC and maybe the winner of UTA/MEM.
Isn’t that the question. IF we are flawed, how can we win two playoff series (possibly against the teams with the first and second Net Ratings in the regular season). Or better, if we can beat the best two regular season teams in the league in playoff series, are we that flawed?
I think back to your post about having the 3rd best D-Rating in the league against top competition (can’t recall the exact data point). Maybe we are better than most of us perceive.
No need to count chickens too early. Just a thought. But it has always been an issue that going after a “third star” means risking the loss of two good players for a shot at one great one (been saying this since pre-season). The “third star” market is pretty thin this summer and I’m not sure there is room for another high usage guy on this roster. It took Conley a year to figure out how to co-exist with Mitchell. KP hasn’t figured it out with Luka yet and I’m not thrilled with what that looks like if we add someone else of that ilk. Maybe the Luka model is a single star and 8 guys who are all really good at specific things (no holes). Luka seems to be better at making good players better than he is at making great players great-er.