Carlisle calls out the team and himself

[mavs777]

He called the team soft last year near end of year and it seemed to work...

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Rick Carlisle: I was waiting for somebody to knock down Randy Foye




DALLAS -- It made Rick Carlisle sick to watch Clippers guard Randy Foye get wide-open look after wide-open look.

“I was waiting for somebody to knock him down, do something,” Carlisle said after Foye’s season-high 28-point performance in the Clippers’ rout of the Mavs. “We just didn’t do that, and really that’s on me. If we’re not aware and if we’re not going to be physical with a guy that just gets it going like that, then it’s on the head coach.”

Consider that a passive-aggressive way for a coach to call out his team for playing such passive defense. The problem is the Mavs weren’t even close enough to touch Foye, much less knock him down, on most of his buckets.

Foye, who entered the night averaging 9.8 points per game, tied a Clippers record by hitting eight 3-pointers on 15 attempts behind the arc. He was 6-of-12 from long range while scoring 22 points in the second half.

The Mavs made a futile attempt to try to defend the much more athletic Clippers man-to-man in the first half, when Los Angeles shot 52.5 percent from the floor en route to a 14-point halftime lead. Dallas adjusted to a zone defense in the second half, which Foye exploited over and over again.

“Eventually if you play zone for 24 minutes straight, the other team is going to find some openings,” Dirk Nowitzki said. “That’s what the zone is going to give up, some shots here or there. Give them credit. They found them.”

You couldn’t find a Dallas defender in the picture on a few of Foye’s 3-pointers.

Foye lit the Mavs up from the left side of the floor. He hit four 3s from virtually the same spot near the corner in the third quarter and a couple more from the left wing in the fourth.

“When a guy gets three or four consecutive shots in the same spot, something’s wrong,” Shawn Marion said. “When you don’t pick up on that after the first, I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt after the second one. But when you get to the third and the fourth and he’s getting the same shot, damn, something’s [expletive] wrong.”

The Mavs kept giving each other confused looks after Foye made uncontested shots. The Mavs weren’t even on the same page after the game on the subject of how they could have disrupted Foye’s rhythm.

Jason Terry scoffed at Carlisle’s suggestion that Mavs should have tried to put Foye on his butt a time or two.

“I don’t know what that was going to do,” Terry said. “You do that and he’s going to get two free throws. If that’s me and you do that to me, I’m just going to shoot some more. So I don’t know if that works.”

Maybe it wouldn’t have worked, but the results couldn’t have been any worse.

[4DN1]

They talk but will they fix the problems? Its not the first time they've called themselves out this year and they didn't fix anything before

[kg_veteran]

The point was that Terry (and the other perimeter defenders) were apathetic. I remember one of Foye's threes where Terry didn't even put a hand up -- he just jogged in his general direction.

[LSMF]

I don't feel like checking stats right now but I feel like we've been quite bad at defending the 3 point shot this year. I've just seen too many instances this season in which a player is left wide open from downtown, and it's especially frustrating because it happens a lot in crucial game situations as well. Just look at the Mavs-Magic game from a few days ago, after Dirk's incredible bank shot we gave Hedo Turkoglu a good look from downtown, and then we gave Ryan Anderson a wide open layup. We got really lucky both of those shots were missed. Our defense needs to improve, especially in late game situations. There are just too many instances where it feels like we'll give the other team great looks and we'll just sit there and hope they miss. Newsflash, Mavs: These teams aren't going to miss those good looks in the playoffs. Step it up, or get ready for an early off season.

[Popeye]

I think the Mavs are too predictable on defense. They always do a trap / hard show on the high Pn'R and then they scramble for the rest of the possesion and are out of place for rebounds. Repeat. Repeat. Then go to zone for a full quarter. Then back to the traps.

The efforts not there either but I think the team is getting frustrated with the scheme causing lack of effort.

[Rick41]

Everyone got drunk the night before at Delonte's Casino Night, I'm pretty sure.

They should ban events like that on nights before games.

[LSMF]

Originally Posted by Popeye

I think the Mavs are too predictable on defense. They always do a trap / hard show on the high Pn'R and then they scramble for the rest of the possesion and are out of place for rebounds. Repeat. Repeat. Then go to zone for a full quarter. Then back to the traps.

The efforts not there either but I think the team is getting frustrated with the scheme causing lack of effort.

Good point.

[EricaLubarsky]

Originally Posted by Popeye

I think the Mavs are too predictable on defense. They always do a trap / hard show on the high Pn'R and then they scramble for the rest of the possesion and are out of place for rebounds. Repeat. Repeat. Then go to zone for a full quarter. Then back to the traps.

The efforts not there either but I think the team is getting frustrated with the scheme causing lack of effort.

Carlisle does save a lot of defensive schemes for playoff time, but they have looked like they are going through the same motions every game. The problem is that I only really see them play two defenses-- a man defense where many players don't move their feet well and a zone where perimeter guys arent closing out and the weak side defender is always a step slow at coming over (Dirk and Odom have been the worst from what I've seen but Haywood has missed quite a few as well)

Between the greater intensity and the luxury of having a very quick guy providing help defense last year (Chandler) this team probably looked better defensively than it actually was. Chandler really covered up a lot of our weaknesses by being so mobile in the paint.

Without Chandler, this team just has to be a lot crisper and more energetic and they aren't crisp and often lack enthusiasm and energy.

[dude1394]

Originally Posted by LSMF

I don't feel like checking stats right now but I feel like we've been quite bad at defending the 3 point shot this year. I've just seen too many instances this season in which a player is left wide open from downtown, and it's especially frustrating because it happens a lot in crucial game situations as well. Just look at the Mavs-Magic game from a few days ago, after Dirk's incredible bank shot we gave Hedo Turkoglu a good look from downtown, and then we gave Ryan Anderson a wide open layup. We got really lucky both of those shots were missed. Our defense needs to improve, especially in late game situations. There are just too many instances where it feels like we'll give the other team great looks and we'll just sit there and hope they miss. Newsflash, Mavs: These teams aren't going to miss those good looks in the playoffs. Step it up, or get ready for an early off season.

I agree and I also think it has something to do with not trusting the guy behind you guarding the rim. Ahem..

[EricaLubarsky]

Statistically they are
8th best in the league at opponent 3pt% and
7th in opp FG%

They're just offensively as bad as they've been in some time at
21st in the league in FG%,
22nd in 3pt FG%
24th in rebDIFF