(03-03-2024, 04:16 PM)Scott41theMavs Wrote: Didn't get a chance to watch the Philadelphia debacle. I notice from the box that despite his bad shooting game, PJ was one of the few players with a positive +/-. Must have made a big defensive difference. Also, perhaps Maxi isn't as dead as I thought he was. A couple questions:
1) Lively's box is terrible. Was his lack of production and positive impact completely due to the foul trouble, or did he look rookie-esque out there this afternoon?
2) Exum - a stunner to me that he didn't make more of an impact or get more minutes. Did he look disengaged? Hurt? Frozen out?
Re: Gafford: once again, his career production up to this point speaks for itself - they need to figure out how to get his minutes to be positive. That's a matter of practice and coaching, imho.
1. Perfect example of why not to put stock in single game +/-. Mavs put a lot of lipstick on a pig in the 4th quarter without Lively in garbage time. Washington and Kleber benefitted from being in those garbage time minutes. PJ airballed multiple 3s in this game. Bad offense killed us in this game, turnovers galore led to a bunch of easy Philly points
2. Exum hasn't looked fully right since his return yet to me, and Philly was getting away with a lot of contact so having him out there was risky