2019-20 Around the NBA: Archived

[Reunion Mav Old]

Mavs exposed the Clippers and the Nuggets have the talent and depth to make them pay. If we were able to constantly come back from big Clippers leads with Luka + all the bit players, the Nuggets are able to do it easily too. Clippers are in big trouble!

Not really. If they play with intensity and grit for more than a half, they'll beat Denver. They don't have a answer for Joker though. Lately, they get leads and give them up too easily. They had a 3-1 lead over Houston a few years back, and blew that series. Maybe they've stopped listening to Doc. He has to figure in this somehow.

I think they have stopped listening to Doc or perhaps they never did. I stopped listening to Doc years ago. How many times in this series has he been heard saying you have got to play hard. About 100 times. How many times has he come up with a good strategy. To be fair...a few good times. I think his talking points were always overrated. I place him somewhere between 6 and 10 in top coaches, not top 3 as he is given credit for. I am not surprised his players, other than Kawhi, can't seem to keep their focus.

There is another explanation: Their lack of a point guard who can run that team and somewhat, their only moderately quality 5 man. As others have said, they have no answer at all for Yokic. But they have no Luka, Rondo, Lebron, Lowry, Dragic, or even a Jalen Brunson on that team. Kawhi is awesome and Paul George is really good, but who exactly runs that team. No one is my answer. Not from the bench or on the court.