A Few Thoughts on Mavs 107, Bulls 109

[Dahlsim]

Anyway, that's not in the Carlisle strategy book from what I can tell so as you said the Mavericks just don't have that "Grind on them rotation" when the situation gets tight.  They just have to hope the 3 pointers keep falling.  Its all miss or make without a high percentage grind mode. 

This is another of HF's gripes. It doesn't actually have to be other players in the game. The players in the game just have to be told to change up the gameplan to incorporate higher percentage shots.

Threes are not high %, they work well when you have lots of time on the clock to recover from a miss, not so much when you don't. I say that and still believe there is a place for the 3 to be taken, they just have to be wide open and getting a guy in rhythm so as to make it no different than how he's practiced the shot over and over.

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That's the thing, the clock and the score should come into play.  Most of the game, with good and great 3 point shooters like the Mavs have, its great to shoot a lot of 3's because the 3 is more efficient.   

When there is less time the lower % 3 point shot is giving the other team a chance to tighten up and go on a run back against you. 
True also when for whatever reason your team is going cold and you just need a few baskets to keep the runs from extending ridiculously longer than they should, which we have seen against Dallas.  Historic blown leads happen because you don't have a grind it out mode to stop bleeding. 

Boban can provide spacing the old fashioned way.  Put the big man in the post / paint , run him around the rim and dive toward the basket then the defense has to react. Hard to stop one on one many times.  That's why teams try to outscore him and get him off the floor asap.  He compromises their interior D. 
In the Chicago game it wasn't just the points he scored and the rebounds per minute which are elite, but the Bulls had to run a double which led to wide open opportunities and space for other players.