06-06-2021, 08:37 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-06-2021, 08:43 PM by DallasBasketball.)
If the Mavs had somehow pulled off the Clippers upset, which I think they were basically a hot shooting game away from doing.. if they had, who knows what the ceiling of this team would have been?
I feel like what I saw in this playoff series against the Clippers was some of the most amazing shooting I’ve witnessed since the Dirk era Mavs. I don’t know if it can just be said that no one plays defense anymore, but when you see stats like 13-17, 8-10, 3/3 from 3.. in the first half! It’s mind-blowing that these players can shoot so consistently. For both teams!
In the Dirk days I don’t think we ever faced another superstar as superior as Kawhi is right now sans 06 D Wade, who had the refs help, and maybe so did the Clippers in game 6, but that’s not really the point of this. The point is the story of the nba right now is skilled players, and we are holding our own because we got a pretty darn good group to go with Luka.
But Luka means we’ve got to get better fast. Because Luka can compete for championships right now. And since those 2001-2011 days, we’ve seen what cap hello looks like. And since 2012+ we’ve seen what dry powder looks like. And we had Luka on a rookie deal for 3 off seasons and got to go hard at one all-star who made a mistake not to join Luka(Walker 2 Boston). And now we are at the crossroads of another plan powder or cap hello plan. I can’t say I know what we should do, but I don’t think we should quit on what we have because I think it is something to build on.
I feel like what I saw in this playoff series against the Clippers was some of the most amazing shooting I’ve witnessed since the Dirk era Mavs. I don’t know if it can just be said that no one plays defense anymore, but when you see stats like 13-17, 8-10, 3/3 from 3.. in the first half! It’s mind-blowing that these players can shoot so consistently. For both teams!
In the Dirk days I don’t think we ever faced another superstar as superior as Kawhi is right now sans 06 D Wade, who had the refs help, and maybe so did the Clippers in game 6, but that’s not really the point of this. The point is the story of the nba right now is skilled players, and we are holding our own because we got a pretty darn good group to go with Luka.
But Luka means we’ve got to get better fast. Because Luka can compete for championships right now. And since those 2001-2011 days, we’ve seen what cap hello looks like. And since 2012+ we’ve seen what dry powder looks like. And we had Luka on a rookie deal for 3 off seasons and got to go hard at one all-star who made a mistake not to join Luka(Walker 2 Boston). And now we are at the crossroads of another plan powder or cap hello plan. I can’t say I know what we should do, but I don’t think we should quit on what we have because I think it is something to build on.