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2019 - 2020 Dallas Mavericks: Eastern Bloc > Western Conference

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missed free throw aside, powell looked good. Curry needs to work harder to get open for catch and shoot 3s. Luka is sublime. KP needs to be more consistent when he gets the ball on the block. He's great facing up on a big man on the perimeter, even AD, but down in the trenches he doesn't seem to have a go-to move.

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#Facts.  Now they just need to take that next step and start winning these games.

These guys still need to figure out how to win close games.  We are still too loose with the ball in the final few minutes and we struggle to get clean looks more than I would like but that's list part of it.

These losses are great experience.  They'll pay off in 2020.  

 

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That's by far the biggest situation Maxi has been in, and he made several small mistakes that cost the team. He will improve on those. The talent is there, you can see it. He just needs the reps. Several of the guys do. 

Hopefully the free throw shooting improves. That's the biggest frustration so far for me.

Mavs are fun to watch again.

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5 games in where 5-0 was certainly realistic. Both losses on some bull shit. We already know THJ needs to hang out at the end with Courtney Lee and Bob. What other thoughts are there about our best units?

Brunson and Wright are studs. Can we just alternate them at point and 2 with a little Curry sprinkled in?

Dwight and Maxi fill the 5. One for D and one for O.

DFS and Jackson are both serviceable at the 3.

Luka and KP need to continue to build chemistry and find ways to play off each other. Ultimately I think that means KP working more on his catch and shoot and post scoring.

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Luka showing out in front of a huge Slovenian group in Q1. Keep it continue.

On 11/1/2019 at 11:33 PM, Sbbruin said:

You mad bro? 

Listen here you Cali hat wearing troll. There are 3 teams on my Can't Stand'em List and the Fake Show is one of them. 

The damnyankees, fake show, and fuck the redwings. So...

FUCK OFF 

i become a less of a fan of the step back 3 every game I think

Boban has had a nice 10 minutes late in the 3rd and early in the 4th.  2nd straight triple double for Luka.  Mavs on fire tonight late 3rd, early 4th.

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Twin Tower lineup the best the NBA has ever seen.

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So this Luka kid seems good.

Luka is Great. Another Triple Double.

KP started slow, finished strong. 6 blocks?!?

Where did Boban come from tonight? Lulz.

Solid win tonight over a team that should have been easily discarded and was.

18 minutes ago, Drew said:

Luka is Great. Another Triple Double.

KP started slow, finished strong. 6 blocks?!?

Where did Boban come from tonight? Lulz.

KLEBER was out tonight so Boban and Portskie got more minutes inside.

22 minutes ago, Drew said:

Luka is Great. Another Triple Double.

KP started slow, finished strong. 6 blocks?!?

Where did Boban come from tonight? Lulz.

Boban is one of the most efficient players in the league.   He just can’t get too many minutes because he wears down.   

Luka’s got to be close to averaging a triple double after tonight.

Need some technical help - anyone know how I can get the all of the regular sounds of the broadcast but with Derek Harper muted? Please?

Other thought that crossed my mind: all due respect to Raef LeFretnz and Shawn Bradley, but KP is the best shot blocker I can recall wearing a Mavs jersey

8 minutes ago, TommyGufano said:

Need some technical help - anyone know how I can get the all of the regular sounds of the broadcast but with Derek Harper muted? Please?

Other thought that crossed my mind: all due respect to Raef LeFretnz and Shawn Bradley, but KP is the best shot blocker I can recall wearing a Mavs jersey

How dare you disrespect Popeye Jones like that.

Heard a stat this morning that Boban's +/- per 100 possessions is +61.  That's absolutely absurd.  

15 hours ago, cactusflinthead said:

Listen here you Cali hat wearing troll. There are 3 teams on my Can't Stand'em List and the Fake Show is one of them. 

The damnyankees, fake show, and fuck the redwings. So...

FUCK OFF 

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Orlando on 2nd leg of a road back-to-back and we've had 2 nights off. Got to wins when schedule works in our favor, esp against inferior competition 

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You’d think it was reversed with all the missed shots and turnovers.

 

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JJ comes in and the offense suddenly looks much better.

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Another bomb from JJ!

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Fultz was trying to push JJ around but he got his ass busted.

kp's decision making skills are lacking.  i don't know if he's playing slow because he's had a year plus off or if this is how he's always been. 

21 minutes ago, gsoda3 said:

kp's decision making skills are lacking.  i don't know if he's playing slow because he's had a year plus off or if this is how he's always been. 

It's pretty easy to tell when he's made his mind up that he's going to shoot. I think he's still trying to find his role in the offense - I sure as fuck couldn't quite tell you what it is right now.

Somehow broadcast team missed that the shot clock didn't reset and that's why the ref's "inadvertent whistle" (as they called it) occurred on that THJ 3 that didn't count, and then did count and ultimately didn't.

Can some one tell me why Curry has only gotten 7 minutes and Brunson only 6? What a bizarre rotation from Carlisle tonight. 

Nice to win when you dont have your A game, I guess. They have to be better on those late free throws. Seth Curry is a career .850 free throw shooter and hadn't missed one this season (not many attempts. Strange.

5-2 is pretty nice though.

3 minutes ago, LurkingHorn said:

Can some one tell me why Curry has only gotten 7 minutes and Brunson only 6? What a bizarre rotation from Carlisle tonight. 

Too many fucking bodies in backcourt. Esp if JJ is going to be a thing now. I kind of understood Brunson getting buried tonight because he looked *bad* in his brief cameo. Didn't get the Seth thing at all. With all the deflections Orlando's D was getting I didn't understand keeping a floor spacer like Curry on bench. 

Justin Jackson gets the game ball tonight, imo.

2 minutes ago, TommyGufano said:

Too many fucking bodies in backcourt. Esp if JJ is going to be a thing now. I kind of understood Brunson getting buried tonight because he looked *bad* in his brief cameo. Didn't get the Seth thing at all. With all the deflections Orlando's D was getting I didn't understand keeping a floor spacer like Curry on bench. 

Justin Jackson gets the game ball tonight, imo.

I agree on having Seth out there to spread the floor. Dude is one of the best 3-point shooters in the league and only took 1 tonight. That simply cannot happen. 

I didnt realize Justin Jackson was the 15th overall pick in 2017.

If we could combine JJ and DFS we'd have a pretty good player

3 hours ago, Post Oak said:

If we could combine JJ and DFS we'd have a pretty good player

DFS disrespect will not be tolerated. He's been fantastic this season.

5 hours ago, Bruh Man said:

DFS disrespect will not be tolerated. He's been fantastic this season.

He has.  And we don't win tonight without JJ either.  He was really good in the 1H

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Jonathan Issac is the next AK47.

Going to be fun to watch Rick figure out bench rotations, different game plans, etc.  I bet he's loving the personnel options on this team.   And yeah, it's huge to win a game like that where you play like shit against a bad team considering how tight playoff race will likely be.   You will inevitably have 5-7 or so of those per year and they are typically L's so nice (and lucky) to get a W last night.

Zach Lowe talking about the Mavs on his podcast today.  Starts at about 55minutes in or so.  

 I mean...that was a good win, I guess?  Glad they won with a B game mostly.

Got the hapless Knicks tonight, Mavs -11 at home.

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KP going to go off on the old squad.

New Simmons podcast talks about Luka for a couple minutes. Starts about 16mins or so.

He goes in on Hawk fans saying they won the trade.  Basically Trae is nice, you traded away a 2x mVp.

Says in two years he and Giannis are going to be the best players in the league.

Simmons is so much better when he sticks to the NBA

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Simmons is one the of the best in terms of the NBA.  I'm looking forward to his new podcast, Book of Basketball 2.0. 

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Lowe

 

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3. Luka Doncic, faking you out of your shoes

Hypothesis: Doncic has the nastiest, most convincing up-and-under move on Earth.

Oh, Hassan.

Most players go into an up-and-under having made up their mind to shoot. They have no Plan B. Doncic digests so much visual information in real time -- and is so smart anticipating where every player is about to be -- he can pivot (literally) into Plans B, C or 😧

Numbers alone tell you Doncic is off to a crazy start: 27 points, 10 rebounds, and 9 assists per game on 47% shooting, including a scorching 58% on 2s. He has almost excised long 2s in favor of shots at the rim and 3s.

The eye test tells you even more. Doncic is thinking two steps ahead of everyone. His trademark pass as a rookie was probably the LeBron-style crosscourt laser to corner shooters. Already this season, he has shown mastery of other tricky dishes that reveal themselves -- only for a flash, and only to the very best passers -- in the run of play.

He is putting exactly the right touch, speed, and height on lobs to Dwight Powell and Maxi Kleber:

That is a really hard pass -- the straight-on, long-distance lob. The timing is just a little bit different than is typical. Genius lives in those differences. Doncic picks up his dribble abruptly, before Avery Bradley is ready for it, and releases the ball almost while leaning backward. A lot of his lobs are like this. They come a beat earlier or later than you would expect. Doncic might already be the league's best lob passer.

He has great chemistry with Powell and Kleber. His partnership with Kristaps Porzingis is a work in progress. Opponents have outscored the Mavericks by 4.5 points per 100 possessions with both stars on the floor. Meanwhile, the Mavs are plus-28 in the 67 minutes Doncic has played without Porzingis -- and a monster plus-25 in 44 minutes with both out.

Porzingis spends a lot time spotting up around the Doncic/Powell and Doncic/Kleber two-man games; Doncic and Porzingis have partnered for only about 19 pick-and-rolls per 100 possessions, compared to 40 for Powell and 31 for Kleber.

That spot-up role is valuable. Rick Carlisle has other sets to spring Porzingis. Doncic and Porzingis have complementary skill sets; they will discover their sweet spots, though to make this thing sing, Porzingis has to get better abusing smaller defenders when opponents switch the Doncic-Porzingis pick-and-roll. Fadeaways aren't cutting it. He's not Dirk.

 

It still surprised me when I would talk to people this past summer and say how optimistic I am about Doncic bases on the games I saw last year.  I feel like lots of people just heard about him but didn't see him play.  

It still surprised me when I would talk to people this past summer and say how optimistic I am about Doncic bases on the games I saw last year.  I feel like lots of people just heard about him but didn't see him play.  
Local TV ratings bear that out.
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He has great chemistry with Powell and Kleber. His partnership with Kristaps Porzingis is a work in progress. Opponents have outscored the Mavericks by 4.5 points per 100 possessions with both stars on the floor. Meanwhile, the Mavs are plus-28 in the 67 minutes Doncic has played without Porzingis -- and a monster plus-25 in 44 minutes with both out.

that's spectacular.

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