The Dallas Mavericks got beat by the Denver Nuggets despite Luka Doncic’s best efforts. Are the Mavs building towards a championship culture like the Nuggets?
Nick Angstadt @LockedOnNBA & Slightly Biased @SlightlyBiased explain how the Dallas Mavericks got outclassed by the Denver Nuggets despite Luka Doncic’s best efforts and if the Mavs are building towards what the Nuggets have. Did the Mavs just struggle with injuries to Kyrie Irving, Dereck Lively II, Josh Green, & Maxi Kleber? Can the Mavs rely on Grant Williams, Derrick Jones Jr, and Dante Exum? Should the Mavs build chemistry or do they still need to make more moves?
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25 Comments
Do you believe the Mavs should focus on building chemistry or keep making big moves?
They need another Lively type center. Luka pass are great but they are not hitting those assists.
They obviously need more size in the front court that can score and rebound
Nuggets have that "all their players are good" chemistry
Luka vs Nuggets, it's really pathetic…sick Luka, bleeding Luka, I'm so so mad!!!!!
Luka is the problem, holding the ball every f.. second. Luka 40 points and lose by 30, Jokic 9 points win by 30. That explains everything.
When is Irving coming back?
Grant Williams and THJ so inconsistent trade them both asap
Nuggets are healthy if they beat our starting lineup by 20 you think the backups going to beat them?
We need that porzingis lively type of combination but that’s a wet dream
Luka should get out of Dallas or he will never have a chance for a championship. Even though they have injuries, it is disgraceful that only 1 other Dallas player had double figures, and it was only 11 points.
No Lively no party
Chemistry is big, the only reason Dwight Powell was remotely playable the last couple years is because of the chemistry he had with Luka. Coach Malone and the Nuggets management injected players to fill certain rolls or replace other players, they didn’t make massive changes or shuffle things up too much over the years. Mavs had something special then fumbled the ball big time with Brunson, then we lost some really good roll players in DFS and Clutchwiddie trying to replace Brunson and now imo, we haven’t really replaced those players with guys like Grant and DJJ.
Kidd has just been shaking the lineups up trying to find something that doesn’t suck for the last 2 seasons now and either the chemistry isn’t good enough or the players around Luka aren’t good enough. During that WCF run we had great offense but could also turn on the D and get stops when needed, they had a crazy good stretch to finish that season after acquiring Dinwiddie. We also may have run out of time with players like Kleiber and Powell being able to contribute anything at all and we seemingly have consistency issues with multiple players.
Thanks to Cubans dumbass roster moves we’re behind the 8 ball and will be moving forward.
Trade Hardy and Green for???
Grant with his Reggie Bullock impression 🥲
"I am inevitable"
– Dwight Powell starting center for the Mavs
Charles Bassey
Jonathan Isaac
Goga Bitadz
Myles Turner
Day'Ron Sharpe
Isaiah Hartenstein
Paul Reed
Andre Drummond
Nick Richards
Mason Plumlee
Onyeka Okongwu
Marvin Bagley
All are Great Defenders that Know How TO GET THE BALL FROM THE OTHER TEAM which is THE MOST IMPORTANT.
All average over 3 blocks + steals per 36 minutes. They could've used a few of them tonight with the teams 2 steals in 240 minutes.
If a player averages 3 blocks and steals that means they are changing and disrupting 12 other plays. If a guy averages only 0.5 steals and blocks combined that means they aren't trying and they have no smarts. It means they don't understand basketball and it also means they don't change any other shots or plays. It also means they probably have 25 ppg scored on their head every night.
A player that gets 3 blocks plus steals is 100 times the player of someone that gets 0.3 blocks plus steals. It's really not that hard to see who is a good player all one has to do is go to per 36 minute stats on Basketball reference and bring up this season then categorize it by blocks. Then look just go down the list. The top 20 there are the top 20 defenders and thus players. Cause Defense is everything in basketball. some of those players are on the bench cause they have 2 or 3 [players like that but maybe they would trade some of those players to the Mavs. The Mavs need 3 of those players atleast to win a round in the playoffs.
I think if I have to watch many more dwight minutes this season I may tear my eyes out. I've never been a powell hater, relatively speaking, but he's on a g league level this year.
A player in a bed sleeping at center court the entire game can get 3 steals in the 48 minutes by accident. yet the entire Gen Z team doesn't even try for steals and only got 2 in 240 minutes. these gen zers are TRYING NOT TO PLAY DEFENSE AND TRYING NOT TO GET THEIR HANDS OUT FOR STEALS OR BLOCKS
Basically Satan influenced every coach now to tell all the young players coming up to Try to never steal or block and that will make them a good defender.
Chet is the MVP of the NBA he is the only player in the last 20 years that Actually TRIES TO GET THE BALL FROM THE OTHER TEAM EVERY PLAY. WHAT A NOVEL IDEA. THAT IS EVERYTHING BASKETBALL IS ABOUT!!!!
Jaden Hardy needs steady minutes in order to be himself. The spot minutes is not allowing him to get rhythm. I somewhat disagree on the Hardy position. Kidd needs to commit to playing him 10 or 12 minutes regardless of the outcome and should produce.
Kidd would lose with the 97 Bulls. His strategy would just be for Grant, Longley, Brian Williams, Randy Brown, Ron Harper to only shoot long 3's with them every play.
It's about time we fixed the shot distribution in this team:
Dante Exum – 100% FG tonight and 26/32 FGM in the last four games = 81% FG
Hardaway Jr – 25% FG tonight and 15/48 FGM in the last three games = 31% FG
Exum needs to be the 2nd option on this team, NOT THJ
A coaching philosophy change is Ideal since they have proven time and time again just shooting 3's isn't even close to working. But will that happen no cause cuban and nico are legally insane.