Injuries force Mavs' Nelson to mix and match

[Cybertx]

Originally posted by: Turkey
This has been the theme of nellie's whole career as a head coach---mix&match trying to find mismatches (That is the reason Booth is in the doghouse). When is he going to teach the players how to play team ball? When is his philosophy going to change from find mismatches to creating plays that will make it easy for the player to score?

Let's be honest, we had some pretty talented players last season (walker included) and he couldn't utilize any one of them correctly. Why? Because he chooses to feed the ball to Duck when instead he should have been preaching to the players on how to play team ball.
Let the game decide on who the ball should go to instead of the coach.

Now let me ask you, has anything changed from last season compared to the present. Has our ball&player movement gotten better?
Nellie's excuse in the prior seasons was that Dallas had no true center. But that is not true---we have Bradley and had Lafrenz-both were and are decent centers.

Given this, we should not expect to be going anywhere this season just like prior seasons. It doesn't take a genius to figure this out.

What the hell are you talking about everything changed for las season.


Let's be honest, we had some pretty talented players last season (walker included)

You got to be kidding, man.

Because he chooses to feed the ball to Duck when instead he should have been preaching to the players on how to play team ball.

that was the damn problem last year dirk didn't have the ball enough.

[SeriousSummer]

Center: D.J. M'Benga plays a maximum of five minutes before fouling out--three is my prediction;
Bradley is good for 20 to 24 minutes. I don't think his conditioning will let him play more;
So unless you can stomach Booth wondering around lost for half the game, then Dirk is going to have to play some center. Face it, Dirk & Henderson are going to be more effective against the Knicks than Dirk & Booth--unless Booth plays radically better than last time.

My prediction, and the best I think the Mavs can do is:

Bradley -- 21 minutes
Benga -- 3 minutes (and fouls out)
Booth -- 8 minutes (might be only 6 if the game is close)
Dirk -- 16 minutes, maybe as many as 20 if the game is in doubt

[Turkey]

Originally posted by: Cybertx

What the hell are you talking about everything changed for las season.


Let's be honest, we had some pretty talented players last season (walker included)

You got to be kidding, man.

Because he chooses to feed the ball to Duck when instead he should have been preaching to the players on how to play team ball.

that was the damn problem last year dirk didn't have the ball enough.

I said the guy got talent. Never did I say the dude got skills.