After Dallas won Orlando today, it has won 7 and lost 1 this year.
The whole team was dull like the fat Luka Doncic at the beginning of the season, and it seems to have improved recently?
But Luca on the offensive end, as if that's still the case — today he shot 7-of-19.
Luca shot 44 percent from the field and 30 percent from three-point range this season.
And Harden and Lillard, it can be described as a difficult brother.
But Dallas is winning: Since the last two games last year, Dallas has conceded points per game: 95, 96, 86, 89, 82, 106, 99, 108, 85.
In the past half a month, only two games have lost more than 100 points.
Today only let the Magic score 92 points.
More interesting:
Yesterday ended the Grizzlies' winning streak, with Morant scoring just 19 points and eight turnovers.
Bulls two-headed Monsters Lavin and DeRozan scored 20 points each against Dallas.
Curry was defended by Dallas to 14 points on 5-of-24 shooting, and the Warriors scored 82 points across the team.
Dallas specializes in pit superstars.
For the past two years, Coach Carlisle has led the team. Dallas is no. 1 offensive NBA in 2020 and 18th in defense; ninth in offense and 20th in defense in 2021.
This season's offense fell to 19th in the league, which is really bad - fifth in the defensive league.
People are still the old ones: Luca, Poggingis, Brunson, Hardaway, Doveen, Klebe... How did you change the team?
Kidd's defensive first idea this season is to compress space + (on the wing) ice on the ball clamp.
Curry, Lavin, DeRozan and Morant face Dallas, we've all seen it. Simply don't let them be one-on-one, one-on-two at any time. Today, a group of magic teenagers are going to be caught in Dallas from time to time.
So when the superstar meets Dallas, he has a headache: dense, shaded, and more than a dozen at any time. bother.
Dallas has few steals and blocks because the team doesn't have a thunderbolt.
Shrink the pile of heads early and don't let you drill into the basket — Dallas's backcourt rebounding efficiency is second in the league.
It is said that such a contraction defense must leak a three-point shot in the empty position, right?
But Dallas put opponents on 11 of 32 three-pointers per game, third in the league; the opponent's three-point rate of 35% is not high.
Because Kidd is compressing space at the same time, on another thing: X-out rotation.
Dallas has done a lot of weak side crossover rotation this season, who is close to who makes up, and the rotation does not stop. It's not easy to miss three points.
And the general X-out rotation is passive rotation, people chase the ball; Dallas this season, often take the initiative to compress the clip after the rotation.
Like today for Orlando, a 24 seconds left in the last 7 seconds, the ball is in the bottom corner, know that the ball can not work, so take the initiative to clamp the rotation: the teenagers who bullied Orlando have not seen this formation, and the pounce is over.
Kidd's purpose in engaging in this set of defenses can also be understood:
Dallas has 221 centimeters of Poggingis and Mayanovich.
But in the regular rotation, Doveshi, Hardaway, Bullock and Luca are all 196-201 cm swing figures. Powell and Crabe are both more flexible among the elders. Nirikina is a high point guard. Brunson is a small defender, but in good shape. In retrospect, Perkins, though tall, moved longer than in hand-to-hand combat.
Dallas is a team, although it does not have a Yokogawa iron cable, but it is essentially a group of swing forwards.
So compression pinch, fast rotation, rely on the whole team to cooperate to defend, rely on tactical discipline and mind to play, also right.
It is worth mentioning that Bullock and Nirikina were obtained from the Knicks of Thibodeau - the people under Thibodeau's command, the attack may not be counted on, and the rotation is in place to fight for defense, which is not spared.
So that's Dallas this season.
Porgys, Hardaway and Bullock shot badly, and the team lacked destructive power in attack, but they were able to win defensively.
In the past, they used to shoot collectively, but there were times when the shooting was inaccurate; Kidd probably saw this:
"In the past, others expected us to kill us on time - now we let others not vote right!"
Back to Luca.
Luca's personal attack this season, by the standards of his past two seasons, is a mess. Poor hits, many mistakes, no free throws, and the withdrawal of three points is not stable.
Lately, it's been a small mid-range job: but that's not new, as it was shown last season when they played the Clippers in the playoffs.
But at the same time...
He averaged a career-high 8.9 assists per game this season. Considering that his only reliable ball-handling assistant is Brunson, it's not easy.
His defenses — dbpm of 1.3 and raptors of -0.1 — are career highs. EPM evaluated his defense as a top 29% of the league level.
Aside from the individual offense, everything else is good, especially on the defensive end: he's a qualified, even reliable, defender.
The first two years were his personal data good looking, Dallas offensively gorgeous, but defense not very good.
This season his offense sank along with the team's offense, but defended.
It's a... The process of accumulation?
(Of course, don't accumulate body fat rate...) ）
Let's make an interesting point...
Third grade Luca made it into the league for a while. This season Luca is in the fourth grade, 22 years old, averaging 25+9+9 per game. With a team of 19th offense and fourth defensive Dallas. The daily inner line rotation is 221 cm of Pogingis, 208 cm of Crabe and Powell.
LeBron entered the league in the third grade, and at the age of 22, he was in the fourth grade, averaging 27+7+6 per game. With a team of Knights who are 18th in offense and fourth in defense. The daily inner rotation is the Big Z of 221 cm, the Gooden and Vallejo of 208 cm.