The Catologue: The Mavericks’ offense is real … but is it THIS good?
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NOT REAL: The pace. Dallas is averaging 102 possessions per game, per the NBA’s stats page, which is only the 24th-highest figure in the league. But Dallas also uses transition on 16 percent of its possessions, per Cleaning The Glass, which is 12th-best in the league. Dallas needed to increase its transition opportunities this season after finishing 28th last season, which dragged down an offense that was actually league average when it operated in its half-court offense. Both the eye test and the numbers indicate that Dallas is, indeed, running more frequently. You can explain away the low number of possessions in two ways: 1) Denver has been the slowest team in the league thus far and 2) Dallas is simply taking up more clock on half-court possessions than other teams do. the Mavericks are averaging 100.9 points per play in the half court — second-best in the league, per Cleaning the Glass — so that’s no problem.
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One key point of my own. There was much talk how this team would speed things up, but they are pretty much walking possessions up with Doncic on the court.