[Grant Afseth] Jason Kidd says bad shot selection impacted the Mavs’ energy against the Pacers: “We just couldn’t throw it in the ocean. We had a couple of bad shots that took away some of the energy. We’ll learn from it. We’ll watch this, and we’ll get better tomorrow.”
Jason Kidd says bad shot selection impacted the Mavs' energy against the Pacers: "We just couldn't throw it in the ocean. We had a couple of bad shots that took away some of the energy. We'll learn from it. We'll watch this, and we'll get better tomorrow."
— Grant Afseth (@GrantAfseth) February 26, 2024
by Diabolic_Bug_Man
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Good, that’s all you can really ask. Acknowledge it, learn from it and improve on it. 7-1 in our last 8, lets make it 8-1 in our last 9.
Mhmm, i wonder who’s playing this bad shots chucker, traffic cone defender big minutes
He better have THJ’s 33-foot brick on loop in every room. “Anybody not named Luka or Kyrie who takes this shot will have to find their own plane ride home. DO YOU HEAR THAT TIMOTHY? YOU GET WHAT WE’RE SAYING JUNIOR?”
Pacers shot an unusually high percentage and we shot a below average percentage. Sometimes its just that simple. I didnt see any glaring issues from Mavs other than ball not going in and theirs was
Anything to deflect from his poor decision of giving THJ more minutes than he should’ve and sitting Luka for longer than he should’ve.
THJ doesn’t belong on a contending team. This is clear. His basketball IQ just isn’t there. He doesn’t get it at all and also his skill set is not made for that. He’s not capable of playing in the system.
DOES HIS NAME RHYME WITH FART AWAY, KIDD????!!
*CoughHardawayCough*
I saw a lot of reasons we lost yesterday. Shot selection was one of about 5 areas.
The moment the game was over:
[https://videos.nba.com/nba/pbp/media/2024/02/25/0022300819/539/6fb88956-3b62-cbed-70d4-ac6e660e1d49_1280x720.mp4](https://videos.nba.com/nba/pbp/media/2024/02/25/0022300819/539/6fb88956-3b62-cbed-70d4-ac6e660e1d49_1280x720.mp4)
I may get down voted for this, but apart from THJ putting us out of the game, when we’re on the road I feel like we’ve a better chance of winning when Luka gets some of the teammates some baskets early on. Apart from Kyrie, who can get his anytime, I think some of our role players try to do too much if they don’t get a couple of baskets early on. Josh got a a transition basket and e early in the game, for example. I see Kyrie does that a lot, sometimes even too much (like that pass for Green’s dunk on the fastbreak), and ofc, Joker does it pretty much every game with Denver. I’m not criticizing btw, just an observation that I didn’t know where to write
I’m almost to the point i’d rather Luka take a contested step-back over THJ shooting a wide open three. Luka is shooting 38% on this type of shot while THJ is so hot/cold even when he’s completely wide open. Kyrie has also been pretty deadly from three (both catch-and-shoot and transition pull up threes) so he would also be another more reliable option to take those shots.
Don’t even get me started on the contested THJ “hero ball” iso threes and long twos. I get that a team is going to have an off night and sometimes that coincides with the other team catching fire, but Kidd and THJ are not doing themselves any favors by 1) playing THJ so much (or at all) when individually he is playing really, really poorly and 2) THJ making the worst decisions and trying to play outside of his role.
Trying to force all these shots through THJ when he shouldn’t even be on the floor in the first place is going to cost us in the long run. A few games ago he shot and missed something like 5 shots in under 2 minutes…like, why is this even a thing?
I’m not even a “shoot THJ into the sun”-guy normally…I think he can have a role on this team. When he’s having a hot night and the team needs the offense then keep feeding him. But what I don’t get is how he gets superstar treatment when he is CLEARLY not that caliber of player and is playing like trash that night.
I’d rather see omax on the floor than hardaway. At least omax plays defense, grabs boards, and hustles.
THJ had terrible shot selection but it’s kind of troubling that Kidd didn’t mention defense as to why they got killed. I mean, the Mavs shot 47% for the game and 45% from three pointer so that’s a pretty decent game shooting percentage wise.
That’s all nice and well, but he also said “Again, Kyrie, in the fourth [quarter], gets going. … The ball’s got to be in his hands.”. HE IS THE FUCKING COACH, HOW CAN HE SAY THAT?