mavsfan4ever said:
I'm interested to see how it goes just bc that lineup would be so different from most teams. All I hear about is how good the defense will be and that no one will be able to score, etc. But I actually think our defense will get torched with a lineup where AD is the 4, and Cooper is the 2.
AD is a great defensive player at the 5. He's a liability at the 4 in my opinion. He can't keep up with small 4s and will be away from the rim with 4s who stretch the floor (which is just about every 4 in the league). Thats a major problem.
PJ at the 3 is decent. But I actually like him at the 4 better defensively against a lot of teams. And we just saw a lineup of lively, AD, PJ get torched in the play in by an awful grizz team. That is not a defensive juggernaut lineup.
Adding Cooper Flagg is not going to turn it into an awesome defensive team. Especially not with him at the 2. I think I would also like him better at the 4 defensively or possibly the 3. With him at the 2, he is not going to be able to keep up with playmaking guards. So we will have a 4 and a 2 who can't guard the players they will have to guard on the perimeter. And cooper's off ball defense is supposed to be great, but he won't be able to do much of that at the 2. And obviously we don't have a pg who can really stay in front of anyone.
Can you imagine this lineup playing someone like the Thunder or the pacers from this year? I think it will be very ugly against a lot of teams. Playing AD at the 5, cooper/PJ at the 4 and PJ/naji at the 3 would be much better defensively.
And we have no playmaking or shot creating, or at least very little. I don't expect Cooper to do a ton of that his first year, or at least not be very efficient at it. But he's really our only option.l other than AD, who is not really a playmaker in my opinion.
I'll likely be taking the under on season wins. I just don't see them being good enough defensively to make up for the struggles on offense.
But maybe I'm biased bc I still feel completely dead inside about this team/franchise, even after winning the lottery. I know a lot of people are likely looking into season tickets again (the people who said they were leaving in March/April. And I don't blame them if they want to do that. But i have no desire to. Even if this team is great, I just don't think I'll be into it like I was before. But I'll still follow them and watch a lot of games to see how good Flagg is.
Well I got one right. I've made a killing betting on mavs opponents in both games bc I felt Vegas was severely overrating us. Took a ton of alternate lines with big odds. I'll keep doing it until Vegas severely corrects our lines.
Mavs are so bad. No creators at all, which is the biggest issue. And defense can't be that good without any guards. Mavs are a bottom 3 team without Kyrie. Honestly probably bottom 1. They just lost by 10 at home to the wizards.
