The Dallas Mavericks DIFFERENCE MAKER….

The Dallas Mavericks DIFFERENCE MAKER….

The Dallas Mavericks differencemaker may not be the first player that comes to fans mind, but he will be a differencemaker if he can improve in this one area. The Dallas Mavericks have done a great job this off seasonason so far, not having to do too much, but still making an impact and improvements upon the roster. And in our last video where we talked about Derek Lively and how we can fix the issues of him and AD on the floor together, we spoke on how the Dallas Mavericks did a very poor job at shooting the three ball last year. We finished dead last at the end of the season and we can’t have that problem going to next season. And one way we can tackle that is improving our three-point shot across the board. But not only does Derrick Lively need to start taking a few threes, but Max Christie will be the differencemaker if he can improve on his three-point shooting as well as his defense. So, in this video, we’re going to take a look at Max Christie, see how well he played last year. How does he rank amongst all the Mavericks last year in three-point shooting, and why this is a bigger issue than some people may think. But, how’s it going everybody? My name is Marcel Martin. This is Mavericks Digest, bringing you the latest news on everything Mavericks related. And before we get started with today’s video, we’re currently sitting at 21,668 subscribers, getting oh so close to our goal of 22K. But if you want to be up to date on everything Mavericks related all summer long as we still have a very long way to go until the start of the season, make sure you subscribe so you don’t miss out on a single thing that we do. But the Dallas Mavericks, our three-point shooting is bad. It was dead last last season. We had some of the worst attempts, the least amount of attempts in the league with the worst percentages. Now, obviously, we dealt with injuries. Everybody was hurt. Kyrie was hurt, who is one of our best three-point shooters, and we’ll get to that later in this video, but AD was hurt. Naji missed time. PJ, who did improve on a three-point shooting, he also missed time. Obviously, with how all the injuries went last season and the weird lineups we had to throw out because we were one injury away from the forfeit games. Yes, a lot of those stats in those categories look very, very bad. But that doesn’t mean we can’t improve. And without Kyrie Irving, we’re missing a good chunk of our three-point efficiency and scoring. He shot 40% from three on seven attempts a game last season. we are going to be without that for the majority at least for the beginning part of the season for the first half at least and other players will have to step up. Now, of course, we have Cooper Flag, but right now, we don’t know what his three-point shooting will look like, as he only made two or three in the summer league. That’s obviously summer league, but in the regular season, we will have to wait and see what his three-point shot looks like. And obviously, we have Klay Thompson, who is a good three-point shooter, arguably probably our best right now, and a few others, but Max Christie will have to improve. In a conversation I had with a dear friend of mine on Twitter, kidmuse, we spoke about how not having a certain player could be the reason why our three-point shooting is just abysmal. And that player is Quinton Grimes, where obviously Quinton Grimes was a great player for the Dallas Mavericks. Provide a good hustle, good energy, a a great score and three-point threat when we need him to be. And we eventually had to trade him. Didn’t have to, but we did trade him for Caleb Martin. Not the same production. And if you’ve been following all the news across the entire NBA this summer, it is in a way a good reason or a good thing that Nico did trade away Quinton Grimes. Now, obviously, I would like to get something of equal value in return and I have to attach a second round pick to trade away Quinton Grimes. But when Quinton Grimes went to the Sixers, he was absolutely balling out, shooting the lights out, dropping 40 bombs, 30 bombs left, right, and center. Something that we desperately could have used with all the injuries that we had. And although we did have another player ready to take his spot in Max Christie, at least right out the gates, it didn’t look like we are really getting that much back. If we take a look at this right here, just to compare the two players, obviously Quinton Grimes did a lot better last year than Max Christie. It’s not really much of a comparison. And when you look at the points, the rebounds, the assists, the steals, blocks are pretty much the same. Shooting from the floor, Quinton Grimes shot 46, Max Christie 42. Quinton Grimes shot 38% from three. Max Christie only shot 36. Thankfully, Max Christie is a good free throw shooter. Arguably probably our best free throw shooter as a team is just bad at free throws. But we a lot of us can agree that not having Quinton Grimes definitely hurts. That production that that ability to score, especially when we have injuries, because the Sixers had injuries and out there in Sixer land, Quinton Grimes was really hooping. But in hindsight, it is kind of a good thing that we traded him as if you’ve been keeping up. Quinton Grimes is looking to try to get around $25 million a year on his next contract. We are not paying that. Nor were we going to pay $25 million a year to keep Quinton Grimes. I love Quinton Grimes. School boy Q. He was great for us, but $25 million a year, that’s not happening. I mean, that’s more than we’re paying Naji Marshall. More than we’re paying Klay Thompson. We have a lot of team friendly contracts and that just wouldn’t work. Although, yes. The production of what he brings, is it worth the value? Yes. Does it fit in what we’re doing? It just doesn’t. But the three-point shooting is something that we desperately need. If we take a closer look at Max Christie from last season for the Dallas Mavericks, he averaged 27.3 minutes per game. And in those minutes, he averaged 9.6 points, 3.3 rebounds, 1.9 assists, point4 blocks, point8 steals, 1.1 turnovers, and 1.1 fouls per game, shooting 42% from the floor and 36% from three. Not too bad for a role player. Obviously, he’s not someone that we’re going to lean on and depend on night after night. More so Klay Thompson as Clay’s our starting shooting guard, but this upcoming season, Max Christie is our backup shooting guard. And let me just say right now, we don’t have a lot of shooting guards. We have Klay Thompson. We have Max Christie. Yes, Jaden Hardy is a shooting guard. I don’t care if he plays point guard. Jayen Hardy is a shooting guard. But after that, you get into the territory of players that can just be interchangeable. You have Naji Marshall, who obviously can play the two. We have Dante Axel Mandelo who obviously can play the two, but our fulltime shooting guards goes Klay Thompson and Max Christie. And if you look at Klay Thompson’s production compared to Max Christiey’s production, it is a pretty significant fall-off. And we talked about fall-offs last year when we looked at PJ and then Maxi Clea. You want to make sure that gap isn’t too far from your starter and whoever’s coming off the bench. And if we don’t want to lose Max Christie, if Max Christie himself doesn’t want to lose minutes or lose his lose his role to other players like Naji Marshall, D’Angelo Russell, other players who can do his job better, then we definitely want to see an uptick in those threes. We just take a look right here. If you want to pause and take a look, these are all of our players from top to bottom in three-point shooting. At the top is Dante Exom. We’re not really gonna look at that. He took 2.7 attempts a game, only played 20 games, but Kyrie Irving is at the top. He shot 40% from three on seven attempts a night. We don’t have those attempts anymore. Someone’s gonna have to shoot the ball more. If you look a little bit lower at Klay Thompson, who’s number seven, he’s also attempting seven threes a night, shooting what, 39%, which is very good, obviously, but we need more from other players. Jaden Hardy did have a run last season where he was the league’s best three-point shooter for about three weeks and then he went back to beating Jaden Hardy. PJ Washington, he did improve his three-point shooting. Max Christie who’s right below PJ 40 I’m sorry he shot 36% from three on 4.7 attempts and I might be a little bit overzealous when I say this but I want to see Max Christie take the same amount of threes as Klay Thompson. He took four a game last season. I want to see seven a game this upcoming season. We know that Max Christie is not just some young player who has potential but he’s never going to reach it. We saw Max Christiey’s potential when he joined the Dallas Mavericks. If we take a look right here, just in case anybody forgot, career games with 15 plus points. Well, in the 154 games played with the Lakers, Max Christie only had seven 15 plus point games. But in the first six games with the Dallas Mavericks, he had six 15 plus point games. Now, some of those games we were a little bit more healthy. We we had Kyrie Irving, we had Derek Lively, Daniel Gaffford. So, he was able to be less of a threat or have less attention on him from the opposing teams. And then we also saw after those games that he came back down to reality as we had more injuries, more players were out. So obviously Max Christie was getting targeted more, getting more attention from defense. There was no one out there with gravity like Kyrie or Anthony Davis. So there are many reasons why his production definitely fell off, but it did fall off and we need to see that improve next season. Coming off the bench for Clay should be seamless. Once you once Klay goes to the bench, light up the floor, shoot the threes, attack the basket, which we saw he can do very well. But on the other end, he’s a great defender. And one thing I want to see, another step for Max Christie is just good on ball defense. One of the things that seems to be our number one issue is point of attack defense. Of course, we have Naji Marshall. We have D’Angelo Russell, who’s not that bad of a point of attack defender. Max Christie can also be that point of attack defender if we allow him to be. 27.3 minutes last year. I don’t know if he’s going to get those same amount of minutes. We have Cooper Flag. We have D’Angelo Russ. We have other guys coming in. I don’t want to sit here and say that Max Christiey’s role is being threatened and that he’s gonna be pushed to the end into the bench, but if he wants to keep his role or even have a better role, a better future once when Clay’s gone, that we got to see these numbers improve. And like I said the other day, the Dallas Mavericks are one of the worst three-point shooting teams in the league. And just to go over the article, for the entire of the 2024 2025 season, Dallas shot 36.4% from three, 15th in the league, and on 34.2 attempts per game, 26th in the league. And these numbers only dipped at the end of the season from March 24th when Davis returned until the end of the regular season. Dallas shot 33% from behind the arc, 25th in the league on 27.3 attempts per game, 30th dead last in the NBA. Like I said, Kyrie Irving takes about seven threes a game, shoots at 40%. There are seven more threes to be taken by somebody. And I truly do think that Max Christie should be taking more threes. Take three more. You took four a game. Let me see Max Christie take seven. Let me see Max Christie develop and take that leap for the Dallas Mavericks. We’re a very deep team, but there’s no point having depth if that depth can’t contribute, if they can’t produce on the floor when certain players are out. We saw last year the next minute up mentality of these players. It’s real. It’s there. And I do believe that Max Christie will be the differencemaker for the Dallas Mavericks. But let me know what you think in the comments section down below. Do you think that Max Christie can definitely be that guy for us or am I just talking out of my ass and that Max Christie isn’t special? He’s going to be to the end of the bench and nothing’s going to happen. Let me know what you think in the comment section down below. We could have a conversation about it. But that’s all I got for guys today. Thank you this far to the video. 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Max Christie looks poised to be a difference maker for the Mavericks next season, thanks to his deadly catch‑and‑shoot ability and next‑level work ethic. His versatility as a 3‑and‑D wing gives Dallas a floor‑spacing threat and lockdown defender off the bench. Tune in as Marcel Martin breaks down Christie’s skill set, how he fits Jason Kidd’s rotational plans, and why he could be the X‑factor in the Mavs’ title chase.

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