Irving led the team alone to overtake Doncic, who pulled the hip? Elaborate on Eastern Europe and incompatibility
On the issue of Eastern Europe and incompatibility, I think I must say two things. It's not right to say that data doesn't represent compatibility, after all, Irving's performance with the Mavericks belongs to a high level of his career, which is enough to show that he integrates well in the system. Letting Irving change teams and he can't do better, which in itself shows that he is suitable for the Mavericks system, which is actually due to Irving's own excellent compatibility.
I want to explain why you'd see Irving perform better when he was leading the team alone. In terms of shot distribution, Irving's eleven goals in this game came from fixed-point three-point catch-and-shoot shots, two from catch-and-basket without the ball, five balls from conversion offense, and only two balls from individual ball-handling offense.
And Irving's highest score at the end of the first quarter was three transitions, which had nothing to do with Doncic's absence, Doncic's ball handling would only affect Irving's ball-holding development, but that transition happened to happen when Doncic was off the court, and it would seem that Irving "liberated" himself on the court, which was not the case.
In the last game against the Spurs, Irving scored 34 points, and Irving had 10 independent development offenses in positional battles, and Doncic will not interfere with Irving in doing this, mainly depending on who is more suitable to develop offense in the game of the day (according to the opponent and his own state), and the shooting resources will be tilted towards the opponent accordingly.
It should also be noted that Irving Doncic has played the highest off-ball efficiency of each other's careers this season, and the two sides can use each other's influence on the offensive end to contain themselves to make themselves play more efficiently, which is a reflection of the tacit cooperation between the two and complementing each other.
In fact, Irving is quite happy in Dallas, from the perspective of social interaction, he has an excellent relationship with the team, GM is also very happy with Doncic, Dallas ** also gave him a very relaxed ** environment, with the current development, Irving will almost stay with the Mavericks.
The biggest problem with the Mavericks is actually the defensive problem you mentioned, and the improvement of this point is more dependent on improving the quality of the supporting characters. At the trade deadline, the Mavericks were very successful in bringing in reinforcements, which made a qualitative leap forward in the current team, but there are still concerns about how these young players will perform in the playoffs.
None of them have a lot of playoff experience, they haven't proven themselves in the playoffs, and there is a possibility of a collective decline. But overall, Dallas' growth attributes are phenomenal, and they will be the top team in the West for at least the next three years. A new season of sports