The High Cyde wrote:Lol Clips need to go home and regroup, this ain’t it.
Might not be able to hold the fort with Plumdog out, gonna have to make a another trade unfortunately for some size.
The size is a concern, but way too many things went wrong in the 2nd quarter to really pin it down to one thing. The Mavs beat the Clippers with going small and launching three's.
After the initial end of 1st quarter run by the Mavs, here's how the 2nd quarter started:
Mann missed shot
Westbrook rebound and pass to Tucker that he couldn't get
Exum layup
PG offensive foul
Lively 3PT make
PG missed 3PT
Derick Jones 3PT
PJ airball 3PT shot
Luka make
That was 9-0. Just to reference the Powell +/- discussion, Powell was on the court, he didn't take a shot (actually not one the whole 2nd quarter), didn't have a turnover, he wasn't being targeted on defense or anything, the Mavs weren't specifically scoring on him, he was just along for the ride.
Mavs are a top league offense, but you can't play below average defense and be off on offense against them for any stretch of time because it's going to be trouble. That second unit with Westbrook looked bad on offense for sure. After the starters came back, they were just not making anything, they maybe should have force fed Kawhi since he had 2 FGA in the 2nd, but they didn't have a plan.