Colbinii wrote:The offense is one of the most dynamic offenses in NBA History with Luka on the bench as well.
You say this and then you proceed to counter your statement with this...
Colbinii wrote:
The Mavericks have some nice pieces offensively who fit perfectly with a ball-dominant, do-everything-on-offensise-player like Luka or Harden.
Just looking through the roster guys like Hardaway, Curry, Kleber, Wright, Powell are all perfect fits offensively next to Luka. They space the floor or finish above/around the rim at an elite-level. Tremendous roster construction around Luka to maximize his talents as a player. The obvious black mark for Dallas is Porzingis but having a player like him who doesn't need the ball in his hand to make an impact is, again, another positive asset for Dallas [Well, he has sucked when the ball is in his hand].
This team is constructed very similarly to the Houston Rockets actually: Great coach, high IQ offensive star who can do it all, overpaid 2nd star who is terrible [westbrook/zinger]. I actually think these two rosters are nearly identical and I think Dallas has a roster better suited to maximize Doncic more than Houston does with Harden but both do a tremendous job with it.
Milwaukee to me is a bit more impressive because Giannis, while having less responsibility on offense, is putting together one of the best defensive seasons of the decade.
You take Harden off of Houston team and they will still have RW, who will start putting up crazy stats like he did in OKC, but he will never be as efficient as Harden or Luka because his IQ in my opinion is nowhere near as high as theirs. Still they would have someone to run the show.
Then you take away Doncic from Dallas team and watch what happens. Who is going to run the show? Brunson? Wright? THJ? Have you watched more than 1 game when any of them is main offensive creator? Even an old and injured Barea is doing a far better job at creating the offense than all of them combined.
Their main 2nd option is still trying to find his way and their most reliable 2nd option is THJ, who has 5 great games and 5 bad ones. He's very up and down when it comes to form.
So, who is the middle man then that can connect all the dots? It's easy to look at advance stats but i guess it's way more lazy to actually sit down and watch games.
As for MIL, take away Giannis and they still have Middleton, Lopez, Bledsoe and a very strong bench. Entire MIL team is filled with playoff tested veterans who know how to win. Even though Giannis is the motor, i think they could survive the season without him until the playoffs start.
I mean i understand people try to diminish Doncic's effect on the team because, well i actually have no clue why, but the fact is, Doncic is their nr1 guy, by far, who strings everything together.
