[Game] Kings @ Mavericks, 11/19/2023 4:30pm Pacific 7:30pm Eastern
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Ya'll are trippin. Davion is a beast.
First of all, I can't ever hate on a player who takes that much pride in their defense regardless of what else they do or don't do. Secondly, this team struggled to score with Davion starting but that was with Keegan and K'Von bricking everything in sight. Davion will never be a scorer/playmaker like Fox or Monk nor does he have their athletic gifts but on a team that clearly has no trouble scoring the ball when everyone is healthy, having a defensive bulldog come off the bench who is perfectly happy taking no shots all game and will willingly defend the best player on the floor is a huge advantage that I wish Mike Brown took advantage of more often. The mistake is trying to make him into something that he's not. He's a situational tool that you deploy when an opposing guard is going HAM and/or getting our starters in foul trouble.
First of all, I can't ever hate on a player who takes that much pride in their defense regardless of what else they do or don't do. Secondly, this team struggled to score with Davion starting but that was with Keegan and K'Von bricking everything in sight. Davion will never be a scorer/playmaker like Fox or Monk nor does he have their athletic gifts but on a team that clearly has no trouble scoring the ball when everyone is healthy, having a defensive bulldog come off the bench who is perfectly happy taking no shots all game and will willingly defend the best player on the floor is a huge advantage that I wish Mike Brown took advantage of more often. The mistake is trying to make him into something that he's not. He's a situational tool that you deploy when an opposing guard is going HAM and/or getting our starters in foul trouble.
This felt like a game destined to go down to the wire, in which case I would not have liked our chances due to some home cooking from the refs, so to speak. Glad we took care of business before it got to that point! Don’t want to jinx it but to me, this team looks like they’re playing on a higher level than they were last season. The team chemistry is certainly showing, it’s such an underrated and undermined piece of team-building in the modern NBA. So much so that it seems like it will be a big advantage for us this season.
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