(11-28-2021, 03:02 AM)sefant Wrote: well, they have a 3rd guy in Brunson and it looks like he might be AT TIMES the most important piece to the offense.
The offense production with him on the floor, to the production without him is more or less game changing. Guess THJ being underwhelming the entire season has been a huge problem in that regard. He just offers nothing to the team, if he is in a slump.
Mavs offense is 0.2 pts off the Mavs best offense in the league (Jazz), better than the Warriors with Brunson playing. The moment he isn't playing, they are worse than OKC's numbers.
That sample size is 450 min huge. How does the offense suck so much without Brunson, when you still have Luka/KP?
Because we have absolutely no other well-rounded basketball players. The Mavs are obsessed with 3&D players and disregarding mid-range playmakers like DeRozan like they are evil. Nobody on this team can shoot off the dribble, float or make adjustments. It´s all drilled mechanical 3 pt shooting through a lot of hard work and little pure feel for the basketball. I have said it before: Luka and Brunson are literally the only players I think will make the shot, if they dribble inside the 3pt line. Everybody else I expect to miss.
People blame the missing wide open shots for our problems that will eventually out-correct, but if you simply suck at shooting off the dribble, when there is any body movement in your shooting motion that you cannot adjust to, it does not matter how open you are. Guys like Ntilikina, Green, Burke, Bullock, Brown simply can´t make a shot inside the 3pt line no matter how open they are.
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