Mavericks governor Mark Cuban had said little publicly about his team this season, but on Wednesday night he spoke to reporters for about 45 minutes,...
“It’s not an excuse. It’s just it is what it is. We just never were able to establish an identity. And without that identity, it really made it hard to put together the right lineups.”“We need to get better defensively. The game has sped up. There’s more scoring. It’s more open. And so we needed better rim-protection and just more ability to stop the point of attack.
“It’s what we were doing with everything else. And again, I don’t think it was any individual player. We just couldn’t put all the pieces together. Like Luka talked about chemistry. And when you don’t have an identity, there’s uncertainty about roles. And when guys aren’t certain about their roles, then things don’t gel and there are chemistry issues. I think we just lost that compared to last year. That identity was big.
“Again, we’re four games out of fifth place and five games out of home court advantage. I didn’t expect us to be here, but it’s where we are. I’m not happy, no. There’s nothing to be happy about. We’re not out of it yet, but I think that’s really what it came down to.
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