If Anthony Davis DOMINATES, the Dallas Mavericks Can Make the NBA Finals & More Questions
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What you got for me, Isaac Harris? Where are you at on Laffy Taffy? Like the the candy? It’s in a bowl of assorted candies and I have other choices. I’m probably choosing something else. Okay. Do you remember the song? No. Oh, that song. I thought you meant like their their like jingle for their commercial like No, I I don’t remember. But of course, the Laffy Taffy. Yeah. Yeah. Shake out Laffy Taffy. Yeah. Yeah. One, I do like Laffy Taffy, the candy. Uh two, I mentioned this song the other day uh around a couple people on my team and uh immediately got the hey, my my manager is old stuff. And uh they had no clue what this song was. So, I was kind of bummed, you know, for the next generation. And I’m like, “Holy crap, y’all don’t know this song.” And then another thing I’m like, “Okay, song came out in 2005.” I don’t care. It’s something you don’t know. I’m saying it came out in 2005. It’s not like it’s like a I guess I guess that is 20 years ago. I was going to say these people are like 21 and like 23 and something. So that’s like when we were a kid, anybody singing an 80s song. Okay, keep on going. We did a mailbag. Today’s episode, existential crisis for Isaac and my myself. We did a mailbag where we asked questions of our subtext. Uh subscribers, if you on the text line, we asked you to give us some questions. You guys send in some great questions. We’ll talk about Lively’s development today. We’ll talk about Max Christiey’s development. We’ll talk about does Anthony Davis play the five in small ball lineups. We’ll talk about that. We’ll get in some other random questions, too. But let’s start here. Isaac Harris, I want to talk about this question. What has to happen for this team to make the finals again? We all expect best case scenario they make the conference finals. You all talked about that, but what if it’s better than that? And so I want to take that question even further. Best best case scenario for the Dallas Mavericks. What happens and what happens to get there? Because honestly, best best case scenario, I think this team could make the finals, but a lot of worst case things would have to happen to the Thunder, the Nuggets, probably the Rockets. like I would be betting on some injuries to go through there. But best case scenario for the Mavericks, what happens? Yeah, I took it more matchup dependent more on uh more than like going down each of the bullet points of like, hey, this has to happen for each one of the players. Uh because it if we’re talking finals, that’s why I’ve always been in like, hey, best case scenario, I think it’s like conference finals. um because it’s just a little bit easier to see a path, you know, of being better than a Houston or Denver or something like that. Um it’s the OKC route. I mean, we just saw them win a championship. They’re also young. Um they’re going to probably be projected to win 60 games for I don’t know how many years in a row here. Um, so it really for me it comes down to all right, if all these things go right for the Mavs, what do they have enough to beat this OKC team? And that’s where it’s just like it’s really hard. I mean, it feels like there’s more um it feels like there’s way more like question marks on Dallas’s side of like, man, it’s kind of like the Doctor Strange like going through all the scenarios. Million scenarios. Yeah. And there’s like one scenario in which Dallas could make it to the finals because all these things had to go right to where there’s like so many other things with OKC to where it’s like they have more and there’s less question marks there. But um for me it all starts I I’m sure you’re probably going to go down a bunch of different things. For me it just all starts with Anthony Davis. Correct. And if Anthony Davis is fully healthy, it’s an MVP type season. He’s all defense. second team allmba then that has he’d be first if he’s MVP type season. Okay. Okay. Okay. Um yeah because it’s positionless now right? Yeah. Although we did see six sixth MVP last year was second team all NBA. So anyway so I yeah I think the second best player ever. I think it all starts with him and yeah, it all starts with him. It does. It all starts with him. We did our lockdown top 100 that’s going to come out in a couple weeks and I have him as a top 10 player. I think he could get higher than that because there’s a couple players I had above him that I was like, well, there are scenarios where I think he’s better than a Victor Womanyama, a Anthony Edwards, you know, somebody a Donovan Mitchell. I don’t know if I had Mitchell ahead of him, but somebody somebody like that that is usually in those ranges in those lists. He could be better than those guys because he brings it on both ends. He averaged 27 or 26 points a game last year for the Lakers. He was uh you know 12 rebounds, three and a half assists. He upped his assists with the Mavericks and he was averaging four assists per game there. He can put on the deck. He can score. He can defend and be one of the best defenders in the NBA for sure. And I think that it all all hinges on how good he can be and how healthy he can be. Honestly, you look at the last couple of years, 51 games last year, but 76 year before that, 56 year before that, 40 the year before that, 36 in a shortened year the year before that. Then you go back to 2020 and 62, but that was a shortened season. So that that most of the games there, it’s like every other two years, you know, like he has bad injury seasons seems like, but then he gets one where he’s pretty healthy. Let me fire a question back at you here. How many of the things, like, let’s say you get that type of Anthony Davis season, how many of the things have to go right outside of him for you to say they have a legit shot at making that type of run? Is it every single thing? Yeah. Is it every single thing that has to go? Well, because I because I look at it and say like, all right, Jokic is in a whole different stratosphere of himself. Like, we get that, but look at the surrounding cast around. Like what if you had an Anthony Davis type of like crazy season? All the surrounding pieces around Denver. I mean, do they have to have everything to hit perfectly right for them to go on a big like run like that to the conference finals or that’s why I’m just I’m I’m looking at some of the things of because I think we’d all answer in that well Kyrie comes back, you know, March, end of February, he’s like relatively healthy. By the end of the season, he looks really good. Cooper flag is like, man, is he like weirdly like in an all-star conversation, you know, type of thing. Like Blake Griffin rookie year level. Yeah. Like you’re like talking, you know, he is just way ahead of schedule. You look at, you know, even some of the bench pieces. One of those guys becomes like your point of attack defender that is just locking down people. DLO has a has a great start to the season and he’s like, man, he’s playing the most efficient basketball. called the big man. I’ll stay healthy. Like if you go down all through the list, do you have to have everything? Do you have to have the Doctor Strange scenario for them to go on that type of or could you look at it and say, “Man, I actually think like if you got that from AD and you got Kyrie coming back and being like really healthy and like really good, do you need just like one one more of the other things? Do you need two more of the other things? Does everything else besides that have to hit for you to make a big run like that? That’s what I don’t know. I don’t think you need everything else. I think you do need Kyrie. That’s the next step. If you’re gonna make a finals, like if that’s what we’re talking about, you’re going to go to the finals, then Kyrie has to come back and be 75 to 80% 85% of what he was last year. Yeah. And he was really good. Like really, really good allstar. Like all-star on merit, right? Not just because the Mavs were a good team and you just threw another all-star in there, right? Like that good. And so if Kyrie is that, then I think those two like this as good a duo as anybody in the West, right? LeBron Luca, Joic Murray, SGA and Jaylen Williams, Kevin Durant, Nam Thompson, or or Shingun or whoever else you want to put in that duo, like they’re as good as those guys for sure. They just need some time to gel. And if those two are that good, if your stars are that good, then everything else doesn’t have to be as good. If Kyrie comes back and he’s like 50% of what he was, then all of a sudden I need more of those things that you just said. The centers all have to be good. The point of attack guys have to have to emerge and all that. I also do think that Cooper Flag does need to be like a starter level player at the very least for this scenario to work out. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I think starter level is one thing for and one thing compared to like that type of like oh if the allar team starter if the all-star team was 20 you know people in the west he could challenge for one of those spots or something like that like um yeah I think that that’s an interesting question. Does Cooper Flag have to have one of the best rookie seasons ever for them to have a long playoff run? I wonder how fans would feel about that. I would like to know what fans think about where the Mavericks would finish in the West. And you can do that by filling out our Mavs fan survey. We put a link in the description. We put it all over social. So, go fill that out. I think we had over 500 sub like responses already, which is awesome. That’s more than the last survey we did, which is day one. Well, we haven’t we haven’t done like a overall big fan base survey like this. So, still the other one was more insiders show. Day one over 500. I listen I want a big big chunk of Mavs fans. So keep sharing this and filling it out. Do you want to give? So So 585 have responded to this question specifically so far. Um you know let me tell you my favorite one so far. You can spoil one I guess. Well there there’s going to be more responses by the Do you give Nico any credit for getting Cooper flag? Yes or no? Is the percentage Yeah. What’s the percentage of yes? Give me give me a guess. Uh 90%. No. 5% yes. That think he should get credit. That’s about 30 30 people out there. There’s Think about this as you’re listening to this show. Whether you’re in the car, you’re at the gym, you’re at work, you’re doing whatever, there are 30 individuals out there that think that Nico Harrison should get credit for getting credit. Family, cousins, you listening may be one of them. The odd 5% odds that you are one of them. It just went down to Hold on. It just went down to 4.9% as I was talking. It went down from It went down from 5% to 4. can get to 30 pretty quick. There’s enough people out there that think he should get credit. Coming up, let’s talk about AD in the small ball lineup. Is he in a small ball lineup or or is it Cooper flag? Who is the center? We’ll talk about that. I’ll tell you the answer and more coming up. Today’s episode of Locked On Maps brought to you by FanDuel. FanDuel sports book has all kinds of props and odds, things you can use to get in on the action. 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So subscribe to that link in the description as well. 2146438637 is the text line. All right Isaac, let’s answer another question. We got Mav’s question. Does AD play in the small ball small ball or small ball five out lineup and they like they put it all together or does that become a PJ Cooper flag staple? What are your thoughts on this? Because I I wrote mine out. I’m curious what yours are. Um yeah, I mean does it count as a small ball lineup of AD’s in it? By his standards, yes. 80s because he’s a four to to him. Um, yeah. I mean, I I think it is. You know, if you go by height, then yeah, it doesn’t make sense because you’re like, “Oh, AD Cooper, PJ of 316 plus over guys.” Like I But yes, I I think by the by how they’re going to do a lot of their lineups and a lot of these double big lineups, then yes, it would be a small ball five with, you know, AD at the five. Yeah, I don’t think you’re going to have a in a perfect world in which we’re talking about the best uh possibilities for the Mavs, I don’t think you’re going to have a ton of lineups all the time. Like, you need AD on the floor. I don’t think we Yeah, I’ll see with that. The whole idea of a of a small ball lineup or a five out lineup. My dog’s over here choking on something. Is that your dog or my dog? No, it’s my dog. Oh, okay. I thought I heard mine sneeze. She’s in her bed. I thought that’s what you were responding to. No, our dogs are just making noises. This whole thing of a small ball lineup is to have like like guard skills at every position basically so that you can attack from multiple angles. You can defend and switch every single position. And Anthony Davis can do those things. You are getting the function of a of a small ball lineup with Anthony Davis at your five. That’s one of the reasons why we’re so high on him being a five at some point. Why are we like and they’re really going for this five this this you know double big lineup where more optimally it would be AD plays the five and you play you know four next to him that can shoot the three that can handle the ball like a PJ Washington or a Cooper flag at at the four or something like that. That’s why we’ve been high on that. But I think you do still get that five out. I don’t know you get that with AD. He’s like under 30% three-point shooter. I don’t know that he’s getting the respect out there that he should or that he, you know, I don’t think he’s getting the respect even though he can put on the deck and attack from that area and all that. I don’t know that you’re getting a full like five out. I don’t think you’re getting the benefit of the spacing if this is what the question is about. Small ball, five out lineup. Okay. I took the question as like a small ball lineup in general. Well, I think it’s both. I’m I’m saying I think those are two different things. I think a small ball lineup is different than a five out lineup. And I think if 80 is at the five, you can still get the small ball lineup benefits, but you don’t get the five out spacing the other part of this. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I guess when what I was saying while it goes like thinking of a team having a small ball lineup, then it’s something that you’re going to throw out to have this like it’s kind of like an ace up your sleeve a little bit like, hey, this is the lineup we’re going to throw out from the Warriors of the Eastern. Yeah. I think you’re in trouble roster construction-wise if one of your best lineups is not featuring Anthony Davis, Lively, and Gaffford, guys you have committed a lot of money to and a lot of uh yes, everything about. Uh but yeah, I think I mean we could see scenarios. I just don’t think Okay, let me ask you this about small ball. What if we’re h what if we’re like five games into the season and we have next to zero minutes of AD at the five? I would not be surprised. Would you be like frustrated by it? If they were not winning and they had closed games with live like Lively at center and he’s getting fouled to go to the free throw line, you know, you know what I mean? Like and that’s the scenario where I feel like he’s getting held back or he’s or they’re double teaming and they’re double teaming Anthony Davis and you don’t have to defend Lively or Gafford because like if those are the reasons and you you see it’s so obvious that if they just moved AD to the five they could have won a couple of those games. Yeah, I’d be frustrated. But I’m not going to be surprised. They’re going to they’re committing to this. Yeah, I was thinking about that the other day. I’m like I wonder how many minutes we’ll actually get. Um, just considering they did give give Stafford an extension and it’s like there’s times when you’re what extension. Said they gave Stafford an extension. Oh, I’ve been reading. Did the Rams get the Rams do that? Listen, I got three drafts coming up and I’ve been really watching the Stafford back stuff. So, uh, I just been wondering how many, yeah, just how many minutes we’re actually going to get of Anthony Davis at the five and are we going to get, you know, one of the lineups I’m excited to see is like when AD’s getting a break or whatever and it’s lively Cooper PJ front court and it’s just like let’s just get up and down the floor and, you know, it’s lobs, it’s blocks, but it’s like super fast-paced and and all of that. Uh, and it’s not a shot against AD at all. It’s just a different type of like basketball when when AD’s in the game. Like you need to get the ball to AD on the elbow or and that and let him cook. Let him do his thing and jab jab jab and he’s going to make his move and get to the basket. Like he’s he’s awesome in that in that range there. Not taking long contested twos, but getting to the basket and all the things. So, um there’s just different lineup versatility stuff that it does make it a lot of fun to dream up and see what we’re going to get. Yep. There’s always going to be that fun lineup every year and it usually doesn’t involve the best player, right? Like you’re like, I just want to see this lineup on the floor and then maybe like two or three months in the season go, “Oh man, that one actually sucks.” I can’t I can’t wait for the uh and Andy’s a great uh follow on on Twitter, but I can’t wait for the Andy Bailey tweet. That’s I want to see the lineup of PJ and Cooper front court at the four and the five. And it’s, you know, Cooper, PJ, Clay, Max, and DLO or Kyrie, you know, and well, my my answer to the to that question in the in the mailbag is if Cooper Flag is a generational rim defender early enough, I think we could see that that lineup because then all of a sudden that that changes your your calculus a little bit. I think you would have there’s too many big guys out there, man. Especially early, you would have to have some injuries for sure in order for this to happen. um last year. Hey Cooper, do you want to chase around a point guard or do you want to battle in the post against a Jokic type of body? They also would have to have one of those perimeter defenders emerge as a really good point of attack defender because all those small ball lineups have really good point of attack defenders. And if you don’t have that, then what are you doing? You got to play good defense. You got to be able to hit a lot of threes. You got to be able to switch. And that’s all that’s all you need. Yeah. Coming up, what do Lively and Max Christie need for their development? We got a couple questions on that. I’m going to tell you coming up. All right, Isaac, we are talking about Anthony Davis a lot and the m best case scenario. We talked about him in a small ball lineup, a five out lineup. The Lakers, by the way, did run some small ball lineups without Anthony Davis. They ran like 386 possessions of LeBron or Ruie at center and 375 possessions of Jared Vanderbilt at center. So that was kind that JJ did run that. I would say probably out of necessity. I would say it’s probably a little bit different than having vets like McGee and Dwight compared to a top 10 draft pick in Lively or a lottery pick in Lively and a newly extended Gaffford. Very very different. Very different. Sure. I mean those two those two other guys are good enough to win a title next to AD at the big. So, I’m not like I was talking about their team last their team this past year with like Jackson Hayes and Christian G. Okay. Okay. Okay. Definitely different. Yes, definitely different for sure. So, a couple of questions we got. How about a deeper dive on how Lively can improve his offense? He won’t have Luca or Kyrie feeding him dunk opportunities. Does he focus on three-point shooting, eight foot jumpers? Where do you see Lively’s progression, his offensive progression go next year? Yeah, I mean some type of you want him to be comfortable around the basket to where it’s not just dunks. He gets an offensive rebound, you want him to feel comfortable enough to go up with a little jump hook shot. Um I I’m not as focused much on a post game for Lively because I think it’s one of those cases if you’re running post moves for for Lively with AD, Cooper Flag, Kyrie, Clay, all these other people on the floor, then that’s a win for the other team. So, I I’m not I don’t know if I agree with that anymore. What the you he’s got to be able to take advantage of a mismatch. There’s going to be switches. And the the thing the thing about that is there’s there’s going to be switches in this lineup because they’re going to run a lot of pick and roll and they’re going to run a lot of screens. So, he’s got to be able to take advantage of a smaller player on him. And I think so if Marcus Smart is switched off on him, you want all those other guys to clear out and you want live take a hook shot over Marcus Smart if he’s deep enough in the post. Yeah. Yes. If you get Marcus Smart and you’re like on the block or like a two feet away from the back, then you just go up for like a dunk type of thing. I mean, like he gets switched off on him and they’re swinging the ball around. They’re like post up, post up, and then they’re throwing it to him and he’s like jabbing, you know, all this stuff. I’m not like I think that’s a win for the other team. It’s kind of like the Boon effect back in the day. It’s like, okay, cool. You like dump it down to Boon, but that’s like a a win for the other team. Um, don’t say anything disparaging about Boon on this program. I think the biggest thing like we know he can protect the paint. We know he can um, you know, catch lobs and all this stuff, play above the rim. Um, we’ve talked about the perimeter defense a lot, right? I think the biggest help for him to stay on the floor and the biggest help for him to um, for this team and everything is just to be able to hit that open jump shot. That’s the That’s the next a three or I mean, let’s just say a corner three. A corner three or that kind of mid-range shot there, a little past the short corner that you can still be out there and space the floor, but they they’re not going to just not guard you like a Westbrook type of thing. So, I think it’s just hitting that shot in the perimeter defense. That’s the biggest areas. The number one thing is something I’ve already mentioned is his free throw percent. shot what 63 65% last year 50 something the his rookie year. He’s got to be better at that. Going back to his post up touches. So last year you really want some lively post up touch touches, don’t you? I just I just want him to be able to take advantage of a mismatch. I think that would would help the Mavericks offense so much because it’s not going to be it’s not going to be as mo like it’s not going to be as mo mobile and fluid as a pick and roll with a Luca Donic just or or even a Kyrie to be honest. Like you’re not going to have that much. You’re going to have him set up with with Daniel Russell. They’re going to have enough of those. He’s going to run pick and rolls with D’Angel Russell, with Cooper Flag, with Max Christie, with Naji, with Anthony Davis even. Like, they’re going to run them for sure. I’m not saying they’re not going to run them anymore. It’s just not going to be as good as a Savant would would run them. Yeah. And so, he’s got to be able to take advantage of switches because there’s going to be switches on this team. 1,200 possessions last year total for Lively. 1,270. How many post touches do you think he got? 17 12 really really really close. Yeah. Not not many. Year before that his rookie year 1,96 total possessions 10 post ups total for him. Sounds about right. They have not gone to that at all, which makes which makes sense this this point in his career. But I’d like to see at least a couple times have him be able to take advantage of a mismatch. I also think his passing is something that is going to take another another level because the Mavs are going to need to be a better passing team than they have been in the past because it’s it’s just been one player sets up everything and kicks it out to a player that’s waiting and like fed a shot, right? They’re not going to have that anymore. You got to be better at passing. Uh he he had four more passes a game from his rookie year to his sophomore year and 1.3 more assists per game from his rookie year to his his sophomore year and that was an improvement on his assist rate overall. And I think that is a good sign and he’s a great passer. Great in the short roll. I was going to say short roll he can hit the corner and hit that hit that pass a lot. So great making decisions and so that thing I think that is one of the things I think will keep him viable in an offense without a you know a Luca Donic run in the pick and roll to answer this question. Yeah. Last one here. We got a question about Max Christie. What happened to Max Christie last year? How did he go from being Chris Middleton for the first few games to not even being in the rotation? This question made me chuckle a little bit because what do you mean what happened to Max Christie? Because I don’t think the falloff is as hard as some people think that it is. Maybe the like the feeling felt like he fell off hard. But so this person asked a question. He went from being Chris Middleton to not even being in the rotation. All right. So he had this he had this stretch of 17 games. So the first 17 games he played really well. He started um he he started uh 10 games. He started 10 games out of that 17. He averaged 32 minutes and 12 points in that 17 game stretch. That’s the stretch where he was averaging double digits. He was out there. That Rockets game was was in there with the with, you know, the Anthony Davis and Kyrie and Gaffford and and all that. Kyrie also played in in uh in six of those games and averaged 28 points. He had somebody to play off of in the next stretch of games. So he he is in the starting lineup, then he’s out of the starting lineup, and then there’s like 15 games to end the season when he was coming off the bench. He averaged 28 minutes a game and 10 points. Like 32 minutes a game for the first 17, 28 minutes for the next 15, 12 points a game in the good stretch, 10 points a game in the bad stretch. It’s like the falloff was not really that hard for Max Christie. What I think is different is that that Kyrie part of it. Kyrie played in like six of those early games, averaged 28 points a game in those games. He played the Babs went five and two in that stretch. That Houston game was in there and and Maxi had somebody to play off of. Then all of a sudden, the best perimeter offensive player on the team was Klay Thompson. And so you’re like, how do we set this offense up? How do we set this offense up? Who’s setting up the offense? Didn’t what he’s leading the team in minutes. You know what I mean? Like that I think is what happened to Max Christie. I don’t think Did he tell you that that he led the team in minutes? Did Didn’t Whitty tell you that? Yeah, I saw it posted somewhere. Maybe it was basketball reference, but I think that’s what happened with with Max Christie. I don’t think it was a fall-off like he was good, then all of a sudden he wasn’t good. Yeah, it’s just some of the his efficient basketball. I mean, he naturally had more a little bit more turnovers um towards that last stretch of the season. But to Nick’s point, cuz who was he passing to? Well, he was having I think, you know, he was being forced into these roles of having to create and stuff. I think I think for a lot of people like you got hopes really up early on of like dude this young star is coming you know young star could possibly be you know coming in and then he plays really well and you’re like all right the next evolution of Max’s game is to handle the ball more and create and get into the paint like all the stuff and we’ve talked about players playing a little above what this spot they should be in and I think that just kind of hit him and and he just looked more uncomfortable able out there um whenever that stuff started happening. So, it was like Brandon Williams is like one of the only guys out there running a point and yeah, so if he can get back to that defined role of the 3 and D type of guy, I think that’s that’s better suited for Max. But if you’re in the camp of, hey, he’s going to be like an option to create offense and stuff through, then don’t watch, you know, the last portion of the season last year. He’s got to have stars to play off of. his whole career with the Lakers, he played off of LeBron and AD. So that’s the kind of player he is. That’s the player that’s the kind of player that we want him to end up be. Top six player alongside AD. There you go. Tomorrow be back with more. Maybe a what if, maybe something else. Go answer the Mavs fan survey that we have posted in in here. And we’ll be back tomorrow, guys. Thanks so much for listening to Locked on Mavs. Peace out. Boom. Don’t listen to No Ceilings. Black gonna be drafting those.
Are the Dallas Mavericks gearing up for a potential championship run with Anthony Davis and Kyrie Irving leading the charge. Can Cooper Flagg emerge as a key piece for the Mavs in his rookie season and help propel them to NBA Finals contention?
Nick Angstadt & Isaac Harris discuss the best-case scenarios for the Dallas Mavericks, including Anthony Davis’ potential MVP-caliber season, Kyrie Irving’s return from injury, and Cooper Flagg’s impact as a rookie. They also analyze the development of Dereck Lively II and Max Christie, while touching on roles for Klay Thompson, Daniel Gafford, and PJ Washington in small-ball lineups.
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0:00 Best-Case Scenario for Mavs
13:34 AD in Small Ball Lineups
20:45 Dereck Lively’s Offensive Development
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