2020-2021 ROSTER TALK: Archived

[Jason Terry]

I was thinking after last night game, if Mavs really have room for a third star. Luka and KP took 51 shots out of 88 total. Ok, they were both hot and they were efficient shots. On average they take less, but still. Third most was THJ with 8. I think this affects him, he really looks shot hungry once he gets the ball. There might be too many score first guys on the roster. Even Brunson likes to take care of "himself". 

Luka and KP combined take nearly 40 shots on average. Out of the top 7 rotation Kleber and DFS are the only guys happy if they don't even take a shot, but of course defense leaves them wide open a couple of times a game and they shoot it. Over 10 per game between them. Brunson and THJ take their shots. Combined a bit over 20 shots per game. This leaves 10 shots for JRich and another 5-10 for other guys combined. If we bring another offensive talent into equation, things might become difficult if Brunson, JRich and THJ remain with the team. There will likely not be enough shots to go around. You would basically have to reduce KP and THJ shot number. I am not sure they would be happy about it.

This has always been the case. After terrible team shooting and a tough schedule and 5 guys missing huge chunks of games we STILL are a top 10 offense sitting at 9th. We probably finish top 5 or close enough to it. You don’t lose one role player(Curry) from the most efficient offense in league history and see a large enough decline for it to matter. Mavs ball the last 20 years we could go out blindfolded and put up some points. At this point it’s a franchise culture thing that we will be good on that end. Dirk was a pioneer that will go down in history for changing the game. Every team in the league plays “nellie ball” now.

We have enough scoring between Luka/KP/THj where we only need 2 of them to show up in order to win. We have plenty of ball handling and distribution between Luka/Brunson/JRich. Everyone’s shooting is returning to career levels. Just as we expected now that roles and chemistry are being cleaned up. 

Everyone who said THj couldn’t repeat and focused on his previous numbers from trash organizations were way off. He is the 3rd “star” offensively. Not only will he repeat, but fewer responsibilities seem to have made him better defensively/rebounding.

Now Richardson is that scape goat. Brunson before him. DFS has been that as well. The five guys playing the 1-3 positions all play hard every night. There’s a good mix of skills. All of them are close with Luka. I don’t see any reason why we would use our limited resources to make any changes to Luka, DFS, JR, JB, THj. 

Its always been about defense and rebounding. It’s the front court that possibly needs help.