06-18-2021, 03:23 PM
(06-18-2021, 03:16 PM)HanspardsShowerVoice Wrote: To further this .. let's take this year for example.
One thing that drove me crazy this year was Rick's refusal to even consider using Boban in the regular season. I'm not saying play Boban 20 minutes a night, but play him 5-10 minutes at least !!! He's a useful player with a unique skillset that is okay to use in a limited role. And someday he could provide a mismatch in a critical game that could come in handy. But he just made up his mind that he wasn't going to use Boban, and that was that. So many DNP-CDs night after night after night. Boban is basically reduced down to team mascot for whatever reason ... fine.
So here we get into the playoffs and ... wow, a shocking turn of events ... a team goes small against us. Who could have seen this coming, other than anyone who has paid attention to the direction of basketball for the last 5-10 years? Okay, so now suddenly it's time to dust off Boban and put him to use in a twin towers lineup with KP in a zone ... except the Mavs haven't practiced this lineup at all in the regular season and it looks just as haphazzard and discombobulated as you would expect. So I guess a baskeball dullard like me doesn't understand .. was there not any inkling that a team might go small against us? Why was this lineup, which wasnt worth playing 5 minutes against the Minnesota Timberwolves in February, suddenly became our staple lineup in the playoffs against the Clippers? So it's like Rick just throws up his hands and says "Don't look at me, I'm just working with what I have. Look at all the creativity and the the mechanizations I've had to invent !!" But regardless of the Xs and Os wizardry, he didn't put his players in the best position and it started back in the regular season.
I have thought about this quite a bit.
Gambling Bob prolly told him he couldn't use Boban in the regular season.