Mavs @ Kings

[ADoaN17]

I'm was actually surprised in the second half when Dallas didn't feed Dirk. He was doign great in the first and they barely went to him in the second.

[perezident]

We need a bonafide closer... oh boy I want Arenas on this squad so bad!

[RIPskaterdude]

We need a bonafide closer... oh boy I want Arenas on this squad so bad!

That "bonafide closer" was shut down by a certain Kings player last season

[perezident]

We need a bonafide closer... oh boy I want Arenas on this squad so bad!

That "bonafide closer" was shut down by a certain Kings player last season

No Haywood Caron and Jamison...wasn't much of a guess who was going to take the last shot

Closer meaning a guy who can open things up for Tyreke down the wire..you have to pick your poision with us if he's here: Double Arenas OR leave on guy on him! LOL sure would have been nice if that was in the corner for a three and not Lousy ..i mean Landry huh

[ICMTM]

This was a fun game to be at.There was alot of energy in the crowd which was nice to see. I'm surprised Tyreke didn't touch the ball with the last possession. From what I saw at the game, the team was just making their shots and there was a lot of spacing.

Donte tends to start shooting whenever he gets the ball when he is doing good. Which isn't always good.
Dally cannot create for himself and has bad shot selection.
Landry couldn't hold and JT wasn't playing with the energy he usually has.
Cousins did good in the first half but had angry fouls after every shot he missed which gave the Mavs free throws everytime.
In the last few minutes the team was standing around too much while Beno had it. I think Tyreke should have had the ball in his hands.

The Kings lost the game. The Mavs did not win.

It was a good game to go to. Win or lose if we play like this I think the fan base will he happy.

[boogie-reke]

Good game for a change from us!

Westfail has to do something to **** it up though, and forgets JT and Donte are alive and on the bench in the 2nd half, on Donte it's understandable as Omri and Garcia played great when they were on the floor even though he still should've finished the game with Donte.

But seriously, coach got a man-crush on Carl Landry.. no other way to explain how he puts a PF for almost 30 minutes in the game when he doesn't get _1_ single rebound in all of that time, and practicly ruins the game for us.

I'm still sceptic cause we shot the lights out in the first half and went to the break tied or up by 2, so i'm gonna wait to see more games to say we're changed.

Overall a fun game to watch, so i'm happy, but coach still has to go.

[pillwenney]

I honestly don't know if that should be the idea here. Having players like Reke and Cousins as offensive anchors and guys like Beno, Cisco, Donte, and Casspi that can all shoot and put points on the board I don't know if it can be justified giving Landry the bulk of the shots off the bench. He's struggling to get 6-7 off the bench right now and in doing so is cutting off clear lanes for Cousins and Cousins is doing the same thing to him. When both are in they do it to Reke. Might be time to move him. That or just reinvent his role as a spot shooter because he can do that, and quite effectively too. You won't be getting all of his talent out of him but it will at least work that way. There is just no way that he should be posting up over Cousins. Even though Cousins is super young he's clearly has a far more vast array of talent and skill from which to work from.

Well obviously the idea would be that he's not playing much with Tyreke and Cousins. And if Beno is starting (I guess we'll see how long that lasts), he's basically playing with Dally, Casspi, Cisco and one of Head/Jeter. He, Casspi and Cisco would obviously be the main scorers there, but Landry would pretty much have to be the 1st option. We saw what he did in Houston. The guy, if used as a go-to guy, can be an absolute monster off the bench. Put him next to guys like Cousins and Tyreke and you've taken away most of his effectiveness.

If we're going to use him as a spot shooter, we absolutely should just trade him. I'd much rather take Darnell's less consistent shooting and far superior defense in that role.

[SacKingZZZ]

Well obviously the idea would be that he's not playing much with Tyreke and Cousins. And if Beno is starting (I guess we'll see how long that lasts), he's basically playing with Dally, Casspi, Cisco and one of Head/Jeter. He, Casspi and Cisco would obviously be the main scorers there, but Landry would pretty much have to be the 1st option. We saw what he did in Houston. The guy, if used as a go-to guy, can be an absolute monster off the bench. Put him next to guys like Cousins and Tyreke and you've taken away most of his effectiveness.

If we're going to use him as a spot shooter, we absolutely should just trade him. I'd much rather take Darnell's less consistent shooting and far superior defense in that role.

The problem is I would really like to see this team have as few minutes without both Tyreke and Cousins as possible.