Tonight was strange. Some things to point were the Mavs defence collapsing as the game went on and the amount of grabbing that wasn’t called on the floor.
The Mavs went ice cold in the 2nd half and Luka just couldn’t seem to find his rhythm after the 3rd quarter collapse.
However, we still managed to somehow stay in the game due to the raptors terrible half court offense. Our bench mobs was decent but one person I want to point out was Kléber.
He looked scared to shoot the ball tonight and it showed a lot especially with the way his free throws were going.
Overall, a strange night but not a bad one for me.
Maxi is completely unplayable at this point. He might be one of the worst role players in the league right now, he shouldn’t be getting minutes
Not sure if Kleber and Green were bothered by the Raptors length.
If u’all noticed Luka 3P shooting so far this season you’ll see that he never shoots =>50% in 2 consecutive games (actually he did it once against the nets then grizzlies) since the season opener these are his splits:
SA Spurs: 3-11 (27%)
Brooklyn: 9-14 (64.3%)
Grizzlies: 6-12 (50%)
Chicago: 1-8 (12.5%)
Nuggets: 6-11 (54.5%)
Hornets: 1-9 (11.1%)
Orlando: 5-10 (50%)
Raptors: 2-10 (20%)So don’t get too mad about tonight lost, we missed Lively & Luka was cold. Our next game against the clippers & i think we know whats gonna happen (well at least if Luka continues this 3P% pattern)
Felt the same way. They were just bigger and getting a lot of bounces, & some weird ass refereeing. It was almost confusing to watch at times because the refs were having a hard time out there. I try not thjnk it’s completely fixed and everyone can have a bad night in a performance type of situation.
8 games into the season and people already talking bout the playoff shit. Your starting center if that’s what you’d assume Lively is, is just a rookie. Both djj and grant, 2 of kidd’s regular starting 5 are from other teams last year with different systems, they will have to adjust. Even kyrie has yet been in a mavs uniform for a whole season. Let me remind you all that the og mavs still on this roster are luka, thj, dwight, maxi, josh and hardy. Heck even hardy’s just a rookie last year. Everyone’s still adjusting, your toronto roster has already been around for a while. 6-2 in the season and ya’ll bitching like that. The mavs are almost an entirely new team now. Even their offense coordinator was replaced. Just enjoy, savor every win and dont expect much. Save your bitching later after you’ve given them a few more games to jive and get into the groove.
raptors is just one of those team, at least we fine in the west. aside nugs, there’s no team that employed all frontcourt all above 6’9 + long wingspan
Kleber’s been hesitant to take a shot before this game (see the hot potato he played with Luka before the 3-point hook shot). If we could just take THJ’s confidence and sprinkle it around the roster I think the team would be a lot better.
We need to trade for a back up center still
It’s a bad sign for playoffs. If you have a glaring weakness at center teams will exploit it