Olympics and FIBA summer

[SleepingHero]

Could his NBA roster the last two years been THAT bad? Was the coaching much worse than we thought? Was there toxic chemistry that made the "sum" far worse than the "parts"?

A combination of all 3 perhaps...

I really truly believe Luka tuned out RC and hated his approach to playing the game. Carlisle kept wanting to gain more control and enforce rigid rules onto Luka and I think it really hampered his creativity. I mean look at last year Luka and some of his passes versus this year. I just think Luka is so damn good even his "meh" games are still all-timers.

I think the Mavs put together a flawed roster. JRich/Melli/Burke all aren't good enough to be on a championship team and barely received run in the playoffs. Then you got one dimensional guys in Powell/Brunson/Boban who all can't defend but can score in a multitude of ways.

THJ/Maxi/DFS are the only players on this team that can do more than 1 thing on the court. THJ can create his own shot (albeit in a less than ideal manner at times). Maxi and DFS are the only 2 that can defend and hit a 3 consistently.  You need more than 3 guys that can do that on an NBA team. And even still those guys aren't supremely special (save maybe DFS defense). 

Then you have KP who is SUPPOSED to be a unicorn on defense and a varied offensive player. He didn't have it last year. Lots of reasons why. I think playing under RC certainly was a bigger factor in it than I originally thought. 


Thankfully though as long as we have Luka we can fix this EASY. Just sign better players. Donnie obviously couldn't get it done in a timely manner. Lets hope Nico Harrison can.