2021-2022 AROUND the NBA: GSW Champs [ARCHIVED]

[Branduil]

Looking at the 4 teams in conference finals, Luka had clearly and by far the worst team assembled around him. Celtics? Warriors? Miami? All pure depth from start to finish. For Dallas, I can only name Brunson and (to some level also SD) as players able to make plays in addition to Luka. The rest are relying a lot on open shooting. In order to win the championship, we simply need to have at least little playmaking from the other positions, in order to keep defenses honest. Warriors could exploit our defense by having many weapons. This is a great strategy.

Even looking outside of the final 4, its a near miracle from Luka and Brunson we made it there. I can name several teams with more overall talent and depth than Dallas.

I get the point how great role players some of out players are, but we are not a team full of championship blood like Luka and Brunson are. Place Luka and/or Brunson on this Celtics and Warriors team, and they win the championship immediately.

We need to look for more talent and more playmaking, passing, vision, bbIQ etc. etc. Cant become static "lets shoot open 3s and play D" team. We may reach WCF with Luka and Brunson, but not all the way like this. We need more players like Luka and Brunson and really elevate our game to new levels. Overmatch the opponents defenses with too many weapons. Destroy them with bbIQ and movements and passing, overmatch their attempt to neutrilize Luka and Brunson with schemes and zones like we have seen Warriors do when they couldt stop Luka playing man to man defense.

If you look at DFS, Maxi, and Bullock, any one of those guys would be fantastic as bench depth or the 5th glue guy on a great team. The problem is we have to rely on all 3 of them at once, with zero depth behind them (or ahead of them, in Maxi's case). Adding someone like Turner without giving up our core would take us about halfway there.