JV does get fouls calls. He gets a ton of favorable whistle when he goes for offensive rebounds and guys push him. That's where he uses his understanding of positioning and angles to his advantage. He just doesnt have that when the ball is in his hands.
Stats dont tell the whole story. THT is the defense individual defender on the team.
Sure and likewise yadda,yadda, yadda…
Yeah but he was struggling before they implemented the zone too. Looked a step slow and even missed consecutive free throws.
Sir he only missed 1 FT all game. It was mostly the zone IMO. Also we went away from the rotations we were using when Gay/Kessler were out and that ruined our early game flow. Plus we played Sexton way too much instead of using our more diverse bench units.
THT played awful in his 14 minutes. Offense seemed to struggle with him on the floor and defense was just not there, didnt rebound AND had trouble boxing out Powel, Wood and Kleber.
Kidd’s a summabich with substitutions and adjustments, hard to beat that guy! Plus they have the Don, who gets Godfather-like respect from the refs!
I agree with you on this. Zone has the potential to break his rhythm, it's harder for him to cut on drives and he was cold from 3. Hardy has some work to do, because that's a simple counter to our best player
He got banned a couple times and it seems they have decided to not participate as Lopo anymore because they aren't banned now and aren't posting as Lopo.
ANd Im saying it broke our entire team. Not saying it was just a Lauri thing, but it threw the way we wanted to play off and we had to rely too much on Sexton's suspect playmaking.
So he’d get those if he didn’t flip and flail like he was shot… pretty amazing a guy with such amazing body control and size hits the deck so easily.
Flipping and flailing just calls attention to what is happening.
I don't know man.. Sexton was a very active 19/3/3 and was trying to dig in against Doncic and even got 2 steals and at least one of them was against Luka. I can't blame the loss on him especially when he was typically on the floor with Clarkson and/or Conley. He had a few nice passes to Lauri too.
Most of Sexton's good game in the final 3 minutes when the Mavs were fine trading basket for basket if it meant not giving up 3's. Credit to Sexton for that. When he focuses on what he's good at he's a useful player. I just dont want 30 mpg of that play. He's more of a 20 MPG type player.
On the aggregate he is the rotation player that we perform worst with when he is on the court… stats don’t tell the whole story but that is a consistent theme all season… go ahead and ignore it if you’d like… it definitely says something.
There's been some games where we've had huge leads and he's taken some bad shots so it's tanked his advanced stats a bit, but when it comes to winning plays and elite defense he has done a wonderful job.
Free throws are not the only way refs influence games. Breaking momentum is just as damaging if not more.
Yes a couple bad shots are driving his poor “advanced stats”… good gawd man. He pops in garbage time buckets as much as anyone. He will make an eye popping play or two so you think he’s amazing, but he will make twice as many ****** plays or just miss shots. It’s like the guy in Rex league that makes two threes in a row but ends up 2/9 and everyone is like “good game shooter”.
