Dirk wrote:Archx wrote:Dirk wrote:It was cool to see Lively making some plays.
For the life of me i can't undestand how Lively doesn't play more than 30 mins when he dominates on both ends of the floor. I honestly can't comprehend how they don't let him play and learn if he f*cks up. Are there any restriction on his minutes?
It's bad enough seeing Powell almost playing more than Gaff and then you have Maxi, doing nothing, matching Lively's minutes when he has a great game.
#Mavsnation thinks the same.
What can we do...
The biggest positive of the game was seeing Lively make some good plays in space against guards. That's very hopeful for the future.
On the other hand, we are living in a very strange period... a front office trades for a C one week. Everyone's excited and over the moon. And then the coach basically doesn't even try, he just assumes that "it is a shooting drill if we play our bigs against them".... A front office wouldnt trade for a guy if the guy would very quickly be labelled as someone who can't play in certain matchups. Surely there must another way...
I am hopeful people like Exum, Djjr play to the level they were playing before the injuries. And hey... THJr, Green sometimes have stretches. In an ideal world this can be a good team, gotta hope for lightning to strike and almost everyone to be shooting and playing well at the same time.
Yep agreed. The only thing worrying me at this point is the fact that we're sprinting to the finish line now, so room for mistakes has gotten insanely small. And if coaches haven't figured out by now how to maximize their players or lineups, there is little hope.
But like you said, hopefully Mavs can find a good stretch of games and go on another 5 or so winning streak and at least avoid play ins.