The decision to pull Josh made no sense, for several reasons. First, the Mavs went back down and ran a two-man play that didn't involve Barea. Second, Carlisle compounded the error by leaving Barea out there. The lineup of Terry/Kidd/Howard/Marion/Dirk that we've wanted to see all season was great. Kidd was guarding Nash, and they were able to switch the pick-and-rolls, which was huge defensively. Kidd never gave ground against any of the bigs. When they put Barea out there, he immediately gets stuck on Nash. Terrible move, because he gets buried on screens and the Mavs couldn't switch on pick-and-roll situations when necessary.
And then on offense, Barea wasn't even touching the ball. It made absolutely no sense.
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