09-02-2022, 03:17 PM
(09-02-2022, 12:15 PM)Scott41theMavs Wrote: You've been wringing your hands about this I go, you go thing for quite a while. To me, if they don't find ways to mesh their ballhandlers creatively, that's on Kidd and his assistants, 100%. I think we can see from the international contests that Doncic doesn't have a problem with creative, move-and-share-the-ball offense, so it isn't him. Unless, even with JB and SD last year, he was butthurt at the capabilities of his teammates to mesh that way, which would be a doubly bad sign for the coming season with JB's exit, and an even worse sign for Dallas's prospects of keeping Luka long-term.Coaches don't make a guy look for assists as opposed to their own scoring at this stage of players development. It's on the FO to bring in the guys that already have that mentality. I see the move of not maxing out JB as acknowledgement that they don't like that style of play also (while mentioning that there is a very real possibility that he doesn't live up to the max contract). Luka has his moments in the NBA of both being a distributor and tunnel vision to get his.
I think there was also the possibility that Luka has the ball so much that when JB got the ball in his hands, he better not let it go cause there's no telling when he'd get it back, that and maybe some, anything you can do, I can do better mentality. I have no evidence to support that other than seeing that mentality with people who have a chip on their shoulder and the competitive determination that JB had.