Dallas Collapses Inside Due To AD Injury, Can It Rebound In the Second Half?
Dallas Collapses Inside Due To AD Injury, Can It Rebound In the Second Half?
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Dallas' second half of this season is more important than ever.
The Dallas Mavericks, who finished the first half of the season in eighth place in the Western Conference with 30 wins and 26 losses, will enter the second half of the season starting with a showdown with the New Orleans Pelicans at the Dallas copyright Center on the 22nd (Korea Standard Time).
Dallas is more important than ever in the second half of this season 스포츠토토. If the team fails to perform well in the remaining schedule and loses the playoff race, the bold decision it made a while ago will inevitably lead to criticism.
Dallas sent out Luka Doncic, who has been on the All-Star and All-NBA First Team for five consecutive seasons since the 2019-2020 season, in a trade on the 4th and acquired Anthony Davis and Max Christie from the Los Angeles Lakers and a first-round draft pick in 2029.
Dallas, which had no intention of giving Doncic a Super Max contract due to weight issues, had a grand plan to win again by creating a solid defense team centered on Davis, who is still considered the league's top big man.
However, Davis showed tremendous presence with 26 points, 16 rebounds and seven assists in his first game on the court for Dallas, but Dallas' plan was completely twisted when he suffered an abdominal injury.
The problem is that Davis is not the only Dallas big man who has been injured. Dallas, where Derek Lively and Dwight Powell were already out of power, suffered a long-term injury as soon as Davis joined the team, and even Daniel Gafford suffered a knee injury ahead of the break, literally devastating the inside.
For the time being, forwards such as P.J. Washington, Najee Marshall and Olivier-Maksans Prosper will have no choice but to turn the lineup defending the opposition big man as the No. 5 of the small lineup.
Still, Dallas can certainly be a dark horse in the playoffs if Davis, Gafford and Lively all return, as Christie is performing better than expected with an average of 17.3 points, 5.2 rebounds and 3.5 assists in six games since the transfer.
However, Dallas can only seek a rebound in the second half if it holds up well, centering on Kyrie Irving, who averaged 24.6 points, 4.8 rebounds and 4.8 assists in 44 games before they return.