Next moves for Luka Doncic & Dallas Mavericks to reach MAXIMUM CEILING | Hoops Tonight

Next moves for Luka Doncic & Dallas Mavericks to reach MAXIMUM CEILING | Hoops Tonight

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So you guys don’t miss any of our content over the course of this season all right let’s talk some basketball hey Jason what’s next for the Dallas Mavericks they clearly have nailed their offseason moves and Lively has been a grand slam with Luca playing at this level I’d love to hear your thoughts

About the next steps for this team all right so in my opinion once you have the guy which is like a top tier superstar that is capable of being the best player on a championship a championship team the next step to me is coming up with a

Like a a very obvious five like five guys that like we’re going down with right I think that’s a really underrated element of the Denver Nugget success last year is like they had their clear five they knew who they were going down with right that to me is that sort of

Congruency so to speak is just an important trait to a basketball team reaching their absolute potential ceiling right so first question is is Kyrie the right number to now I love the offensive fit but there are some concerns about the idea of having two stars that aren’t top tier athletes that

Deeply impact the game defensively right like if we go if we go back like you can do it we saw Denver last year right with uh with Jamal Murray and and Nicole yic but they had excellent defensive players at two of the positions and a guy with

Really good length in Michael Porter Jr at that other spot and so if it’s Kyrie you have to be really really good defensively at the other position so let’s look at lineup construction now remember what I always talk about is ideally and again this is just my ideal

Version of a basketball team there are so many different ways to construct a basketball team we actually did a conver had a conversation with the nerd sesh guys yesterday about this idea uh essentially like you know what Kevin Durant views as the way to build a basketball team versus the way LeBron

James views the way to build a basketball team so on and so forth it’s really easy to to to pick one side or the other but you can succeed in different ways that’s said my my preferred construction is I want a skill guard and then I want an athlete guard

Then I want a slender tall like a slender like kind of perimeter oriented forward and then I want a bigger stronger like Frontline forward not like an old school Power Forward like Drew Gooden but just like a big strong athlete someone along the lines of like

An Aaron Gordon ideally is what I want in that four spot and then I want myself to be athletic and capable of working in different coverages because playoff series just uh they they kind of force you to have to be able to play multiple different ways depending on the matchup

And so having a center that can uh competently switch and competently run a deep drop and competently run a high drop where he has to get up to the level and back up to the level and back a guy who can Blitz with active hands you want lots of Versatility from that position

Right so going down the line to me Kyrie is the skill guard right I think Josh Green is actually the guy that could be your athlete guard and he’s been unavailable as of late but I actually think Josh Green is is a is a is a like

A a good NBA starter a guy that can be in that spot right next is that slender kind of point of attack forward the perimeter oriented forward that’s the question mark right now right I think Luca is your big power forward now I know he doesn’t really feel that role on

Offense he’s more of like a point guard right that said I’m more talking about defense your position is who you can guard in the NBA cuz offense you can play the geometry is kind of your own what your skill set is right like like the the Warriors play a really weird

Style the the the Nuggets play a really different style like every team kind of has a different offensive style depending on their their personnel right but defensively it’s about who you can guard right so I actually look at Luca defensively at his best as a low man a

Guy who uses his size and basketball IQ to make plays on the weak side either like tagging rollers uh offering secondary help cleaning up the defensive glass so on and so forth I also like him there just as a guy who can get the get the rebound and then start the break

Right so I look at Luca as your your your power forward there and then that Center position Derrik Lively could be that guy I agree I think he’s been a grand slam uh it’s amazing how a good draft pick or a good free agent signing can kind of change the fortunes of a

Franchise Derek is a great athlete obviously a clean fit offensively uh defensively we’ll see as the years go by that usually takes some time but I don’t see any reason why he couldn’t be similar to like a Nick CL and his ability as kind of a lanky Center to

Defend in different coverages right and so that points us to the three spot as being their next most realistic Target the thing is is with Kyrie being kind of a skill guard and with Josh Green being a good point of attack Defender but not like an outstanding point of attack

Defender and with Luca being a lesser athlete at that four spot I think it’s really important that whoever it is they get at the three is a top tier perimeter Defender if they want to contend for a championship it means to be a guy that at least defensively is capable of

Reaching that Lou Dort you know Dylan Brooks uh Jaden McDaniels there a bunch of different versions of those guys right but like a legitimate guy that can like you can stick on the other team’s best player for seven games and make his life hell if they can find that type of

Guy it starts to make a ton of sense from a lineup construction standpoint to be like if that guy is a big 68 athlete then him and Lively provide so much athleticism him and at Josh screen and Lively provides so much athleticism in that lineup That Kyrie and Luca being

Somewhat lesser athletes is not a problem and as long as those guys are bought in like the way they are this season I think they can get enough stops while simultaneously being extremely difficult to guard so that’s the direction I’d be looking right now round

Out a clear number five a re a a clear fiveman Group by finding a top tier perimeter Defender to put at the Three he

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