Dallas game observations

[Celtic4Hire@xxxxxxx]

Obie had hinted early that Kedrick would get limited minutes against Dallas 
and sure enough, he didn't play in the first half along with Baker. The thing 
is that Obie's strategy didn't work anyways. We still ended up down 19 by 
halftime...

Couple of other observations:
The Mavericks just spotted up and waited for the pass. The Cs are running 
around, triple-teaming the penetrator and the Mavs just flip it out to the 
open guy. If the weakside defense reaches him, they pass it one more time to 
a guy who has been sizing up the rim for 15 seconds. They know exactly where 
the open guy is going to be. All methodical....

The Cs are scattered on offense. The ball gets flipped out to the open guy 
sometimes at the knees, at the left or at the right. Never at right at the 
player chest high....

The Mavericks sag off of SWill because it takes him a good couple of seconds 
to realize he is open on the pick and roll. I have never seen SWill drive by 
the pick and pull up for the jumper in rhythm. He doesn't have the natural 
offensive instincts and doesn't finish well. He is a lot like Delk. He is a 
stand still long range shooter and that is about it....

I found it unbelievable that the Cs wouldn't stay with Nowiski on the pick 
and roll. Both guys would go with Nash (possibly with the blitzing 
instruction) and leave Nowiski wide open, over and over. What a strategy. One 
strategy I would have tried is going with a box and 1 with one guy staying 
with Nowiski and at all times. The box would stop the Nash penetration and I 
would have lived with WWilliams, Griffen and Bradley or Finley beating me 
from outside. You just can't leave the Mavs best player wide open like 
that....

DJessen33