What Has Happened To The Mavs In The Last Week? | K&C Masterpiece

What Has Happened To The Mavs In The Last Week? | K&C Masterpiece

What has happened to the MAV in the last week to which I think sarcastically they’re F Cory said they’re fine and Mike responded no they’re not but seriously it I and I know the answer is probably going to be a variety of things I personally would like to kind of

Spotlight their defense you could look at the fact that Kyrie was cold in the Boston game thj was cold in the Philly game turnovers were the difference in the game yesterday three- pointing shooting was probably the difference in the Celtics game and you actually did a shockingly good job of rebounding over

The weekend so it it’s it’s probably a lot of things but I wanted to take the whole week because that’s the span you’ve lost four of five what has happened to this team in that run one they’re not playing with the same energy that they played with around the trade

Deadline and I get the schedule has been tougher I they went on an East Coast trip they couldn’t beat any of the the teams that were as good or better than them cuz like Cleveland I know you had somebody text in Cory like Cleveland’s a really good team they’re arguably better

Than the Dallas Mavericks they’re definitely as good and you unfortunately that was a 60 foot shot that went in probably one out of 100 times that shot is going to don’t mess around in the last cuz you’re 110 to 100 uh kind of like look Philadelphia had to put out a

Team out there that probably wouldn’t make the playoffs maybe make the playin situation but that’s what they have right now now because of Joel embiid’s injury and they were able to hold on to their 10-point lead with four minutes to go the Mavericks couldn’t do that in

Cleveland it seems like to me there’s quite a few things going wrong I don’t want to just point at one it’s not just one thing but it looks like Jason kid is lost on who he has on this team he has no clue how to use this team and that’s

Concerning to me because Luca has been playing at a high level throughout this time it’s not not like well hey man you go as your Superstar goes I totally get that that’s why Philadelphia is struggling because Joel embiid isn’t playing or if your Superstar struggles

It’s going to be tough to win that game but I’m looking at these five games Luca in these games his worst shooting game was 10 of 21 at Indiana where you got blown out all his other games three out of the other four he’s over 50% easily

Over he’s getting you 35 points about per game he’s getting you 11 rebounds he’s getting you 12 assists his turnovers yesterday they were high like he had too many turnovers yesterday but he’s playing at a high level so I agree with Corey he screws around I

Was the one who pointed this out the the team can’t handle that somebody needs to sit down Luka and go Luca stop screwing around before the game you’re fine you’re still going to get your 30-point triple double the other guys see it as screw around time one minute before the

Game starts I felt like for the longest time Kevin sorry to interrupt you there when Mike would do that I was like that’s just that’s just nitpicking and and I really was like yeah like I get it and but the more you see it the more you start thinking especially the more you

See their effort whenever they get into these games that’s when you’re like okay if you can cut that out and get them focused pregame maybe that carries over where they start taking this more seriously because they’re not stepping on the court with a Do or Die life mentality because nobody’s going to

Overrule Luca from that perspective is so I I guess my question is and I don’t even really feel like it’s a question it’s a thing that needs to happen but how does it happen you talked about the coach and why the coach is probably safe because of Kyrie and Luca

Well at least part of that falls on Luca then screwing around in the pregame that falls on Luca shouldn’t that just inherently be in you to be like man what if we quit jacking around before the game or what if I to be told that okay

Well then the coach but you have to respect the person who tells you that I don’t know who Luke I guess he respects kid but I think I think he loves I don’t know if he respects kid I know he loves kid because he gives him soft recommendations and lets him do whatever

He wants to do it seems like instead of structure and discipline it’s more about uh the overall way of basketball like that’s what I feel like kid is is discussing with him more than anything is I’m not I’m not here to give you structure I’m not here for to to go pull

The greatest out of you let’s talk more philosophy on the game and stuff like that which Luka probably loves because he understands the game at a very high level it’s just those other those other minor those other very serious details that go into being great is it wrong

That I hate that then like I absolutely think Jason kids focus should be pull the absolute everything I don’t know if he knows how I don’t think Jason kid knows how like like when you listen to the Giannis stuff Giannis makes it sound like yeah now that I reflect on it he he

Was doing he was telling me those things that are going to make me better but he didn’t know how to pull that out of me like a like I guess maybe a pop noose or you know a guy who is a a coach a therapist uh all those things that go

Into it a disciplinarian just we talk about bochi you know everybody says the same thing about Boi and the consistency but Boi’s put a lot into what he ex what he thinks a coach a manager needs to be and a lot of thought into that I think

That Jason kid is a great indiv idual coach as an assistant coach on a team that’s what he was with the Lakers hey why does LeBron love him so much well he doesn’t have to dictate who’s in the game with LeBron he’s just working with LeBron on what you’re talking about

Corey just thinking about the game from his perspective because he was such a great point guard LeBron is pretty much a point guard such a great point guard and they can talk about the game Jason kid made zero decisions as an LA Laker coach he was just helping out as an

Individual and as an assistant he was wasn’t having to make any type of should we play a center shouldn’t we play a center should we play this guy over that guy in this key situation and I think it’s too much for him to handle and it’s not doesn’t mean he wasn’t a genius

Basketball player it just means he’s not a genius head coach the defense of rotations okay are starting to drive me bananas and can I just point out the shocking difference between the winning streak versus losing four or five the amount of points given up yes it is it’s unbelievable so the Mavericks they’re

Not a good defensive team we’ve talked about it I think they’re probably like seventh or eighth from the bottom in terms of efficiency but they’ve been giving up 118 points per game for the season during their seven game winning streak they did not give up more than

113 in any one of those games all right what’s happened since then let’s juxtapose it while they’ve lost four or five they’ve given up at least 120 in every game so you go from not giving up more than 113 in in any game to at least

120 in every game and you’re giving up an average of 127.5 that’s going to lose you games all day long I think before the trade deadline they were giving up just to give you an idea 118.5 per game so they’ve gotten worse somehow and hey I know Sweeney is the

Defensive coordinator I’ll Point him out like what is going on why why are you guys getting the least out of these guys I like this team on a piece of paper it doesn’t matter how much you like them on a piece of paper but on a piece of paper

It looks like they have a lot of things going their way so if Luc is playing at a high level Kyrie’s playing at a solid level your role players are who they are but I think this is a solid group of role players and they’re playing their

Worst basketball maybe this is just a bad stretch everybody goes through but you got to pull your head out of your rear end at some point because right now you’re the eight seed and I know you can still get the six or five Four’s long gone they’d have to win out almost at

This point to get to four so you look at it and you go all right can we still make the real playoffs yes they can still make the real playoffs but if they don’t pull their head out of their butt soon then they are going to look at

Playing on the road as a eight seed or maybe getting a home game as a nine seed and then having to win that game to then play the loser of the 78 game and so far as far as I can remember these last two years no nine or 10 seed

Has made it into the real playoffs yet I I think the thing that’s frustrating for just these last two games and I you still have plenty of season to go you win these last two games you’d be tied for fifth as opposed to eighth when you see because I definitely think fifth is

Still achievable I hear what you’re saying about fourth because you’re six games back and would have to jump over four other teams with 21 games to play that would be a uh really difficult task right there but I I definitely believe the five seed is still in play but you

Could go go anywhere between 5 and 10 right now I I I truly believe that I I’m starting to lose I’m losing Hope on this year being something good I didn’t think after the trade they would make it to the NBA finals I thought they had a

Chance to make it to the Conference Finals I’m going to back off of that I hope I’m wrong and you can say oh you’re too wishy-washy well I have to watch the games I don’t see you’re watching games and you don’t change your mind on like that’s the wi thing about people who

Complain about us at times oh you’re changing your mind again wait you’re not supposed to walk you you watch a Cowboy game you’re just supposed to say they’re winning the Super Bowl even if they lose by 100 well they lost to Green Bay do you still think they’re going to win

Next round like I no I do not so I have to watch the games and I was very optimistic up to the allstar break and after that Phoenix game is when I thought oh my gosh like Phoenix is right around that kind of can they make it to

The Western Conference Finals yeah they could will they I don’t know they’re in a big group of people and I thought maybe this is going to change they go to Indiana I’m like hey everybody has a bad game they go to to to Cleveland they you

Know blow a lead but then have really you know unfortunate luck go against them they beat Toronto great and then you get hammered by Boston all right they’re better than you but I did not like the way Jason kid handled the the second half and going let’s go with no

Center and then he follows it up against Philadelphia and says centers are worthless if they are worthless what is Nico doing did you guys not have a conversation yeah like was it Nico’s like I got you another Center I got you 48 minutes of s foot athletes and then

Jason kid’s like I don’t want any minutes of seven foot athletes I want to play JJ Berea Spud web and Mugsy bog the rest of the game like I love small ball what in the world is Jason kid doing I just at this point I know he’s going to

Be the coach he’s not going to get fired I I just don’t think he’s going to get fired no matter what unless he does something off the court to get fired I just want to make sure I understand the logic that y’all have for this it’s

Because Kyrie Ador him and so does Luca as soon yes as soon as you fire him Kyrie wants out that’s a big issue for your organization and I don’t know about Luca and where he would be at if you fired kid so maybe it is and I know I’m

Forwarding ahead maybe you blow out all the assistant coaches but I don’t know if that’s going to work either in the future because Jason kid ultimately has to make the decision am I playing Maxi kba over Derek liely and over Daniel Gafford am I playing Derrick Jones Jr in these clutch

Five minutes over whoever he’s trying to make a decision on is there any chance that Nico maybe the new ownership group and I I’m going to stay focused on Nico does not have that exact same opinion that if you swept Jason kit out because we’ve talked about this before is Mark

Cubin definitely fell in line with the cult ofid before he hired and he was like oh you’re a star you’re the guy and so I don’t think he wanted to hire Jason kid I think he got talked into it by Finley and Dirk and so but maybe a few

Other people and he was not going to move on on is it possible that Nico or maybe the new ownership takes a hand in this who the hell knows is there like I don’t view it that way I think we can keep these players happy and maybe have

A better shot at winning I do think this if they lose the playin situation they’re going to be in the playin it’s almost impossible for them to fall out of that like they’d have to almost lose out to to fall out of that if they let’s

Say don’t make it to the real playoffs or they make it to the real playoffs and get swept by let’s just say Minnesota and it just it’s not competitive I do think Nico would really need to sit down with Kyrie individually and Luca individually and ask them what they like

About kid what they dislike about kid and try to see their their feelings on this before you fire him because if Kyrie’s like well if you fire kid who are you going after and if he likes some of the candidates like you can’t go well we’re going to get Steve Nash he’ll say

I quit you know like so like you have to I think you do have to in today’s NBA especially with Kyrie and I also think somewhat with Luca you have to be really concerned about their feelings on the next head coach and I think that it’s

Just easier to go they like Jason kid he watches the games and let’s just hope that Luca figures it out on his own Michael Jordan didn’t figure it out on his own he needed Phil Jackson he needed the triangle offense he needed some leadership From the Bench so I guess I

Guess that they’re thinking Luca is going to be better than Michael Jordan and that he’ll figure it out on his own without a strong head coach I do wonder how long before cuz at the moment it’s like look it’s the GM’s job to do the GM

Work uh but how long it’ll be before the new ownership portion decides they want an Roi here yeah I don’t know and and whether or not it’s like wins are important to them you know I think we’ll find out a lot about them as we move along it sounded like whenever they say

Words which you know whenever people say words a lot of times you kind of have to take it with a grain of salt on whether or not they’re telling the exact truth and what truth they’re telling but just kind of their decision making from here

On is going to be you know will let us know how much they want wins how important further in the playoffs means to them and what else this team can do along the way so that could be another point I don’t know I don’t think it’s going to happen this year where that

Ownership leans in and says hey we we need to we need to make sure we do this you know I don’t think there’s going to be any pressure from that this year maybe next year though I will say this and things can change again the Mavericks need to win their next five

Games no question about it you beat Indiana at home you have today off you beat Miami at home they’re not a great team either they’re fine they’re they’re an average they’re like you know a little above average they’re going to make the play but nothing special at Detroit they’re pathetic at Chicago

They’re pathetic home against Golden State I get it but you better show you’re better than the 10th seed or I guess they’re the ninth seed now team that just got run off the freaking floor so to me you want to show me that what I’m saying is wrong and I’ve jumped ship

Too soon win your next five games those are those are all games you’ll be favored in it doesn’t mean you’ll win them but you’re favored you’re you will be favored to win those games as long as you’re healthy and you are healthy I I don’t know my key would be play a center

48 minutes remember your whole thing about Gafford and Lively playing together hell he doesn’t even want to play them more than 30 minutes total in a game that is infu he wants to play small ball I almost said a bad word I appreciate that you did Not

Coming out of the All-Star break, expectations were sky-high for the Mavericks. Fast forward to now, they’ve lost four out of five games and their defense has looked horrendous. K&C look at what’s changed with the team and if Jason Kidd is to blame.

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