Game 45: Dallas Mavericks (24-20) vs. Atlanta Hawks (18-26)

[omahen]

What a historical performance.  Amazing.

Green continues his solid play.  Some really good games, some average.  No stinkers though.  Good having Exum back and Lively was solid.

I have to ask /something is broken with our defense.  We are not a good defensive team.  We have guys like Green, Exum, jones and lively who play hard.  But it just seems like a drive or one pass and the defense completely busts open.  Something is not right there.  Some of it can be put off on poor defenders but they can’t be this poor.

Awesome offensive performance by Luka, obviously. Exum looked much better in his second game after his injury, which gives me hope.

But, Mavs are not going to win a lot of games playing this way. Defense is beyond bad lately. I quoted you because you made a very good point about their defense, something just doesn't look right. I know very well Luka is usually not a very good defender, saving his energy on that end. He didn't play defense at all this game and I can't even blame him too much about it, since he had to do a lot on offense. But can't say it is just on him. Defense is just falling apart on all ends.