FAILURE: How did the Mavs Offense Get SO BAD So Fast?! | Jason Kidd Set Up Dallas Mavericks to Fail?

FAILURE: How did the Mavs Offense Get SO BAD So Fast?! | Jason Kidd Set Up Dallas Mavericks to Fail?

on today’s show. How did we even get here? It wasn’t ever supposed to be this bad for the Dallas Mavericks, but we are. And I’ll tell you today’s locked on mask. This is Cooper Flag and you’re listening to Locked on Main. All these changes, you know, I still got my dog Dwight Pal. You are Locked on M. Your daily Mavericks podcast, part of the Locked On network. Still can’t leave. Your team every day. I’m going to get a city like that. And welcome. You’re locked on the Dallas Mavericks your team every day. My name is Nick Angstead media member covering the maps for 10 years. Thanks for being every day or making lockdown apps your first listen each and every day. Making the lockdown podcast network, the number one sports podcast network out there. Today’s episode is brought to you by FanDuel right now. New customers can bet just $5. If you bet wins, you get $300 in bonus bets to use across the app. Head to fanduel.com to get started. Today’s episode I want to talk about why the Maverick’s offense is so bad. Breaking it down, why it’s different than it was last year. We’ll talk about some of the big things the Mavs are doing this year that that it’s just so bad. Jason Kids said that they’re just missing shots. Is how true is that? Diving into some of the numbers on that. And then I want to go I went back and I looked at a bunch of our predictions from before the season. I was like, how did we even get here? Like we had such high hopes or at least we had such mediocre hopes for the Dallas Mavericks and it’s even worse than we could have even anticipated. So I’m going to go through some of the predictions we got really wrong already like eight games 10% of the way through the season. Well, let’s start here. How do we get here? Because the Dallas Mavericks are two and six. They’ve had this pretty easy schedule if you look at it. Played the Wizards, played the Pelicans without Zion. They’ve played the Pacers in their current state. They’ve played the Raptors and they’re still trying to figure things out. Have not had that hard of a schedule. They’ve only played one actual road game and one game in Mexico City. They have not had a very tough schedule at all. They have had injuries. Anthony Davis has missed multiple games. Derrick Lively’s missed multiple games. obviously know Kyrie, still no Dante Exom, and no even word about anything about Dante Exom and if he’s ever going to play. And so you’re like, “All right, well, they’ve had some issues.” Okay, sure. But 30th in the NBA in offense, dead absolute freaking last. The Mavs, this stat is just blowing my mind still. I posted this the other day and I I talked about it on the postgame show with Slightly. If you missed that one, go listen to that one. uh uh one an all-timer maybe with me and him. The math the in the NBA there have been 17 games where teams have an offensive rating under 101 points. League average right now is 115.3 league average 115.3 there have been 17 games only 17 games where an NBA team has posted an offensive rating meaning points scored per 100 possessions. So, it’s just like an efficiency stat under 101. The Mavs have six of them now. Six of the 17. Six of the 17. No other team has more than two. The Wizards have two. The Pelicans have two. The Pacers have two. The Mavs have played all three of those teams. They lost the two of them. The Mavs actually won one of these games. They’re the only team to actually win one of these games where they they have an offensive rating under 101. And that was the Pacers game. So, even though they won that game, their offense was still atrocious and they just won because the Pacers were just as atrocious as they were. Now, the Mavs defense has actually been fine and it kind of been a strength. I did go through the schedule and they haven’t played the strongest teams for sure, but the Mavs are sixth in the NBA in defense. Their their goal was to be top three. We were like, “All right, if they got to be at least top 10 and have like a average or okay offense and they’ll be fine this year, and then we’ll wait till Kyrie comes back and maybe they can do something special.” Cooper flag takes a really big step forward during the season. Derrick Lively takes a step forward. Anthony Davis stays healthy. We’re like, “All right, well then the Mavericks will be all right.” None of those things have happened. None of those things have happened. The Mavs defense has been good. Their offense has been so atrociously bad that it makes absolutely no sense. Absolutely no sense how bad it is. So, let’s go through. How did we get here? All right. Jason Kidd said the other night after the Pelicans game, “Well, you know, we’re just missing shots. We just we’re getting good looks. We just gota we just gota knock down some of these shots.” All right, I said this stat yesterday, effective field goal percentage takes into account that three is more than two. And so it puts it all together and says, “All right, what is your what effectively what is your field goal percentage considering twos and threes together?” 50% what the Mavs shooting our Mavs are shooting right now. That’s 29th in the NBA. Almost dead last. They’re bad. They’re not shooting well at all. Their location affected field goal percentage. So, if the Mavericks went and shot league average at all those positions that they’re all the all the places they’re getting these shots at the rim, mid-range shots, three-point shots, they took into account, all right, what’s the what’s the league average for three-point shots? What’s the league average for mid-range shots? What’s the league average for for shots at the rim, the Mavs be the Mavs would be have effective field goal percentage of 54.5%. If they were shooting league average, so they are shooting way worse at all those places. The Mavs would be ranked 19th in effective field goal percentage if they were just average at at all the places at all the spots that they’re actually taking shots. The Mavs are sixth in the NBA in the amount of corner threes they’ve taken as you know opposed to the amount of shots they’re taking. It’s about 11% of their shot diet is from corner three. That’s a shot that you want. The problem is they’re not creating those shots for a Klay Thompson or even a Klay Thompson that’s shooting well. They’re creating those for, you know, rookie Cooper Flag, for Naji Marshall, for guys that are not historically really good three-point shooters. Anthony Davis, I think, has taken some. Max Christiey’s obviously taken some. Clay has obviously taken some. Sure, like good three-point shooters have, but the Mavs are have creating a lot of threes and they are not hitting them hitting them. So, that is something that Jason Kit is right about. They are not hitting some of those shots. The other part of this though is that the Mavs are six fifth in the NBA in mid-range shots taken as a percentage of their shot diet. 34% of their shots are coming from the mid-range. This team does not have good enough mid-range shooters to be doing that, right? There are not enough good three like mid-range shooters, mid-range assassins for the Mavs to be doing that and feel really good about it. Some of the teams that do have their high percentage of shots from the mid-range, Sacramento bad. Utah, uh, not terrible but bad, but bad. And they’ve got Larry Markin and they got some others that can take shots. The Lakers, uh, they have Luca and Austin Reeves, and they and Racho takes mid-range jumpers. Like, they’ve got guys that can can make those shots. Houston, Kevin Durant is on that team. Jenon is probably taking some of some of these shots like some Jabari Jabari Park. Jar Jabari Parker. Oh my gosh. Jabari Smith is probably taking some of those shots. Obviously, you would expect those teams to have a high percentage of their shots from the mid-range. And then it’s the Dallas Mavericks. So, it’s like some bad teams, some teams with elite ath some elite players, and then the Mavericks where they are. The Mavs are also taking uh 32% of their shots at the rim. That’s 16th. That’s not enough to make up for the other areas. And yes, they’ve been without some of their centers. They’ve actually they’ve played some games where they barely had any centers. And so, I get that the Mavs right now are sixth in the NBA in what Synergy Synergy Stats calls uh low percentage shots. So, like a a low percentage, meaning it’s like a a bad shot quality. 20% of their shots aren’t bad shots, and they’re sixth in the NBA. They have the they’re taking the six most bad shots in the NBA, which makes sense considering all those things I just laid out. And here’s the bottom line with all of it. They are missing shots, but they’re not creating good enough looks. And they haven’t replaced any of these missed shots with offensive rebounding at all. You’d think that this big team coming in, we were like, “All right, well, they’re gonna be this massive team. They’re gonna play like Houston did last year. Houston gobbles up all their offensive rebounds and then that’s how they scored. They scored in transition which the Mavs are actually good at this year. They scored in the Rockets scored in transition and they scored on offensive rebounds. And we’re like, “All right, well maybe the Mavs can do the exact same thing the Rockets did last year because their team was kind of built similarly. The Mavs are not doing that at all. They’re 29th in the NBA in offensive rebound percentage. 22% of their shots they’re they’re getting back. The Rockets are doing are getting like 40% of their shots back. They’re still number one in the NBA. So, the Mavs are not creating good enough looks. They’re not hitting the looks that they are getting. And they are not replacing any of those missed looks with offensive rebounding or any kind of other way to get offense that is not just that. And so, my big takeaway in going through all those numbers and all the things is that they are missing shots, but they just haven’t created enough quality looks. And that’s and that’s it. It very simple. How did we get here? You could go all the way back to the Luca Donic trade. You could. But I go back to all right, once you knew Kyrie Irving was going to be out for the season, what kind of offense did they create and they set this team up to create these kind of looks to put them in this position that all of a sudden we’re like, what are they what are they even doing out there? Cooper Flag was talking about, well, we finally looked organized in the eighth game of the season after playing four preseason games and the eighth game of, you know, and eight regular season games against bad teams. Like, we finally looked organized. This team did not come into come in with a cohesive enough plan that was going to put them in advantageous positions. And it’s either just it was either the system or it’s the players that have rotated. But we talked about that yesterday where they’ve they’ve rotated. They they’ve tried different players. Jason G has tried different lineups. He’s tried a whole bunch of different ones. and there has not been an advantageous one besides the games that DA Russell plays well. The Mavs also just are not creating looks. That is the stat that I keep going back to. The Mavs are 26th in the NBA in field goal attempts per game. Like just total like shots taken per game. They’re fifth in the NBA in pace. A team that is that high in pace is never that low in the amount of shots they’re actually taking. They’re not creating looks and they’re not creating quality looks. It’s a it’s a failure across all fronts. And I think it’s a coaching failure to me. I think that you looked at if you looked at your personnel, you had to come up with a better system with than this. And I’m not here for well, they don’t have any they don’t have any point guards. Jason Kidd has said the thing like, hey, we’re short on point guards. You knew that going into the season. There had to be an adjustment. And there just hasn’t been. And that’s I think one of the biggest issues of why we got here. There hasn’t been an adjustment as far in terms of all right the personnel that I have and the personnel that that we have right now. This is what we should do to make that adjustment. It’s like if Kyrie was here then the offense would be great. We’d be creating high quality looks. Yeah, that’d be awesome. But he’s not and you knew he wasn’t going to be coming into the season. I bogged it down enough with enough numbers. Coming up, let’s talk about uh some of the ways that this offense is different than last season because there’s one specific way that I that I’ve seen that this offense is different from last year and it it’s a little obvious, but we’ll talk about that and more. Locked on Max continues coming up next. Today’s episode of Locked on Maps brought to you by our friends over at Door Dash. Go check out Door Dash and see what is available for you. You can go right now and take advantage of their uh door dash pass. You can see what they have all the time. you can get stuff delivered if you’re watching some of these games or if maybe you’re sad after watching some of these games and you’re like, uh, I just can’t I can’t deal with this anymore. They’ve got this new bag right now. It’s the official on demand delivery platform for the NBA. That’s Door Dash. And they’re celebrating with something called the bag drop. 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Our listeners listening every single day. We appreciate you for checking out the show and listening. Check the QR code, different ways to follow the show. We’ve got bonus episodes going up all the time. So, make sure you’re subscribed. Let’s get to 50,000 subscribers on YouTube. Can we just Can we get there? Can we get to 50,000 subscribers? All right. So, we talked about how we got here. It’s the It’s a terrible plan going into the season because of the personnel. The qu the shots they’re creating are not good enough. They’re not creating enough looks. And I saw a bunch of people reply to, you know, the stat the Mavs are they’re high in pace and low in field goal attempts per game. And they’re like, well, it’s the turnovers. The Mavs are average, like actually below average in turnovers. They’re 18th in the NBA in turnovers per game, turnovers per 100, and turnover percentage. They’re 18th in the NBA and all that. So, it’s not like they have this extreme amount of turnovers that is limiting them from getting shots. They’re literally getting into some of these half court sets on offense and not creating a shot out of it or just not creating a shot shot looks or not creating good looks or not getting another I just it’s frustrating. Last year’s offense compared to this year’s offense obviously the big thing off the top obviously isolation plays way down. The Mavs had this built-in system with Luca and Kyrie where it was like when everything breaks down, you had a guy to go to to just make something happen. Last year, the 202425 season, which only had Luca till like Christmas, right, and had Kyrie here and there and was he obviously missed the end of the season, too. 10% of the Mavericks plays were in isolation last year. They had a thing to go to. They had a thing where they can like, “All right, everything’s breaking down. We’ve got somebody one of those two guys.” Now only 5% of the Mavs plays from isolation are are in isolation. Only 5% of their plays from down from 10% last year. And obviously those plays are a lot worse. You’re giving the ball to PJ Washington and saying, “All right, you go make something happen. That’s not a great that’s not a great plan. That’s not PJ Washington’s game.” Giving the ball to D’Angelo Russell, that’s a mixed bag. Sometimes it’s good. Sometimes it’s really bad. Giving the ball to Cooper Flag saying, “All right, isolate for us. Sometimes it’s good and sometimes it’s bad.” As the 18-year-old, you would expect. Isolation plays way down. Obviously, that’s how one of the the ways the offense is different. Another way is that miscellaneous plays are way up. They’re up by to from 5% last year to to 8% this year. To me, that is just the random like we like Synergy looks at this and says we don’t know what happened on this on this play. We can’t really put it in a category. It’s not a spot-up shot. It’s not a transition shot. It’s not a pick and roll ball handler taking a shot. It’s not a handoff. It’s not a cut. It’s not a roll man getting the ball off a pick and roll. It’s not isolation. uh it’s not a post up like they’re like we don’t know what this is. 8% of the Mavs plays are these miscellaneous plays. Now there could be ones that just couldn’t be categorized or the you know the the uh the system the synergy system doesn’t get it right or whatever but the Mavs miscellaneous plays being up is notable to me that they are just having plays where nothing constructive happens. The Mavs also obviously going back to the isolation thing, their plays off of the pick and roll ball handlers went from very good last year. It’s a synergy rating that start that the top is excellent and it goes then excellent, very good, good, average, below average and poor those that’s how the rating goes for synergy pick and roll ball handlers very good last year obviously. So, the second highest rating you can get this year. Poor the bottom. The ball handlers off pick and rolls have been awful. And that’s because they haven’t played a point guard and because of the personnel on the team, right? And I think the screens haven’t been good. I went through a lot of a lot of the game again last night watching a bunch of Cooper flag plays for a bonus show I’m going to do a little later today and like some of the screens are just not good either. It’s just like some laxidasical. We don’t know what we’re doing. We don’t we’re not organized. So, the isolation plays are down. the m the random miscellaneous plays that we don’t know what’s happening are are up. The pick and roll ball handlers have been bad. Handoffs are up, which we would expect going into the season. We broke down like, all right, this is what the offense that they’re trying to run. It it makes sense the offense that they’re they’re kind of trying to run. It’s this Princeton motion offense. You kind of don’t really need a point guard in it if you run it correctly. And so maybe the players are just not running it correctly. But it’s a lot of motion. It’s a lot of movement. It’s a lot of players moving off the ball. And so there’s going to be a lot of this. The talk was Anthony Davis is gonna be this hub and they’re going to run him like he was Sabonis in in in Sacramento. Sabonis gets all these assists off of these handoffs. He has the ball. A a ball handler runs around him. He hands the ball off to him and he sets a screen real quick with his hip or sets a real screen with that, you know, ball handler’s defender. And you’re like, “All right, now you’ve created an advantage for that guy.” Those plays are up. It was 5% last year. It’s 7.3%. So it’s almost two and a half percentage points up from last year. They’re getting more plays off handoffs. Sure. But last year they were very good. This year they’re average. So they went down two ratings. They’ve been they’ve been doing more handoffs, but they haven’t been good, which I I don’t think you’d be surprised by. Their spot-up shots have been bad. We talked about their percentage of shooting at the top of the show. They’re ranked poor. Spot up is the mo the highest percentage of their plays is they 23% of their plays come off of these spot-up shots. It’s a catch and shoot or just, you know, any kind of uh shot really that just that comes off of a pass. And they’re poor. The worst rating on all those. The only thing that the Mavs are good at is one pick and roll like the roman. When the role man gets the the ball, which you’d expect the Mavs have gathered, the Mavs have Dwight Pal who’s historically been good. Obviously, Anthony Davis, obviously Derek Lively, when they have played, 5% of their plays come out of the pick and roll role man. And they’ve been very good out of that. We just haven’t gotten a lot of that because there hasn’t been as many pick and rolls with those guys. And in transition, 18% of the Mavs plays have come in transition and they’ve been good. That’s the one area that the Mavs have actually been good that you know that they have done over and over again is they’ve been good in transition. But how did we get here? Answering again, the offense was set up in a terrible is in a terrible way. It is not set up for the Mavericks to succeed and it’s brutal to watch what they’re creating right now because it’s just it’s not working cohesively for anybody. And I don’t think you can argue with me otherwise. Coming up, the predictions that we got terribly wrong. How do we get here? Um, I had a prediction that was that’s wrong already. Eight games into the season. Just brutally wrong. I’ll tell you what it was and we’ll get into that coming up. Lock Maps continues coming up next. Today’s episode of Lock Maps brought to you by FanDuel. NBA is back. 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I could play that one if I just want to play those two guys, but let’s go Max Christie 12 and a half points. I’m going to pick Max Christie. Let’s go more for Max Christie on on 12 and a half points, too. Let’s say all three of them are going to go are going to go up because I think that’s who’s going to play. So, right now, I can play that. If you use the promo code locked on NBA, get $50 in lineups after you play your first $5 lineup. So, if I play I play that $5 lineup, I use the code locked down NBA, I get $50 in lineups after playing that one at prize. Again, prizepix.com. Use the code lockdown NBA prize pix. It’s good to be right. I don’t always tell you guys the truth. All right. Isaac, let’s get into some predictions. Uh, I talked about why the how bad the offense is. How do we get here? Why is the offense so bad? Went through a bunch of numbers. Hopefully made some sense. Well, let’s get into why this team uh some of the things that we got wrong. How do we get here? Where did we expect to be? One of the first things that I got totally terribly wrong, remember during the preseason we were talking about Anthony Davis’s weight and he was he came into camp overweight and we were like, man, uh, this is weird. This is so strange that this is happening to the Mavericks again that the player that Nico Harrison brought in to avoid this very problem is happening. It’s happening again. Anthony Davis did have the eye surgery over the offseason. He was not able to get in conditioning shape for whatever for whatever reason during that. I am not his doctor and neither is Jason kid. I’m not a doctor. So I don’t know. And so he was not able to get in the right condition and I said we’ll never talk about Anthony Davis’s weight after this week. That was a prediction that I made before the season and that has been wrong because Anthony Davis looked slow. He looked so slow even in the games that he played that this is not just an injury issue for the Mavericks. This offense is not just a problem with well Anthony Davis is injured. Well, they don’t have Lively. Did Kyrie one maybe, but you expect a deny of Kyrie coming into the season. So, Anthony Davis’s weight we did talk about again because he’s looking he’s looking slow. Um Isaac got one wrong already where he says he says follow that formula and say, “All right, well, I think the Mavericks are going to be a top eight team in defensive rating.” Then last year tells you they’re going to have at least 48 wins and be a top six team in the West if they’re top eight in defense because that’s what happened last year. All the teams in the top of the West were in the top eight defensively and the Mavericks right now are sixth in the NBA in defense and they’re the worst team in the West because the offense is that bad. Last year, if you had a top eight defense, you’re competent enough as a team to be top six in the West. And this year, there is a team that is confounding everyone and sixth in the NBA in defense and 30th in the NBA offense. and they’re two and six. Wild. Um Isaac made a prediction that the offensive play style will look completely different due to Jriano’s in, you know, inspired system built around Anthony Davis as a hub. I don’t think he got that one wrong. I think that’s right. The player movement, less isolation, dribble, more dribble handoffs and stuff. He got that right. There’s there’s more stuff on there’s more stuff on that. What I did here is I we have this uh AI site that we use for all of our transcriptions for our our shows. And I went through and I said, “All right, give me every prediction we made before the season.” And I went through some of these and the the Anthony Davis weight one hit me right in the face. I predicted Ryan Nehard will get an early rotation minutes as the 10th man and because they’re going to need his passing and that has not happened at all. Jason K was like he punted on point guards altogether. I did not expect that to happen. That is one one reason why we got where we are. One thing I got I got wrong that actually has been positive is I predict the Mavs will allow a high number of three-point attempts as part of their defensive identity. The Mavs are actually number one in the NBA in the amount of threes their opponents take. Only 31% of opposing team shots have come from three. League averages 38%. Utah is last and they’re allowing 45% of their opponent shots as threes. So, that’s a a one I got was that’s one I actually got right in a one I got wrong in a good way. Uh here’s a couple we got right actually right in a bad way. I said a couple weeks before the season that the Mavs offense will take some time to come together and incubate due to the new personnel style, but that Cooper flag is ahead of schedule will help accelerate that process. I was wrong about both those things. the Mavs. Well, I was right about the Mavs offense taking a while, but I did not think that it would take this long. I did not think it would be this bad this early. I thought maybe we’d be looking at 25th in the NBA. We’re like, “All right, can they get to 20th? Can they get to 18th? Can they get to just close to league average on offense?” And they’re just no. I mean, they’re nowhere close. I said league average is 115. The Mavs are at 104. Like nine points off of that. that to get to man right now Detroit is league average. Portland is league average. Clippers Cleveland is actually league average on offense right now. Isaac predicted Anthony Davis going to shoot 36% on threes and he has not played. I predicted Lively and Anthony Davis will both make an alldefensive team and they are probably not going to play enough games to get there. At least if we’re just taking what the beginning of the season has looked like. They could I got one right that says DeAndrew Russell will start more games than Klay Thompson this season. I think that’s going to end up being right. We’ve already seen that change. Now, I guess I could be wrong predicting my rep predicting my prediction, but I feel good about that one that like, all right, I think this is actually going to happen that Russell is going to start more games than Klay Thompson through the season. I also predicted that Max Christie will have a breakout season and will eventually need to be a starter. He’s going to be one of the best perimeter defenders and one of the best three-point shooters on the team by season’s end. I was right about that within like three games. So, I feel good about that one. Um, man, I predict I said there’s a I said here’s one I got really wrong. There’s a world that the Mavs are like top four or five in the West and the Mavs could be all the way up to two because of how the West can be so tight and like M’s looking real bad right now. Mavs, Isaac said that he he he predicted the Mavs finished sixth in the NBA and that’s where he thought that they were. We had high hopes for the Mavericks. We had high hopes that they were going to make something out of this season, that they were going to be be better, that the offense wouldn’t be as bad as it is. But as I walked through at the beginning of this show, the Mavs offense is even worse than it kind of looks sometimes. If you look at some of the numbers, you’re like, “This just doesn’t make any sense.” They’re the last in the NBA offense by almost two whole points. 104 offensive rating. Washington has 106 offensive rating. Absolutely brutal for this Dallas Mavericks team and a brutal watch right now. But hey, stick with us. Locked on Mass. We’ll be doing more. I’m going to break down Cooper Flags game a little bit later today. And so, uh, stick with us and listen to that show as well. Check the links in the description, QR code for different ways to follow the show. Thanks so much for listening to Locked on Mavs. Peace out. Boom.

Why is the Dallas Mavericks’ offense struggling in the 2025-26 NBA season? Discover how the Mavs, led by Cooper Flagg, Anthony Davis, and Kyrie Irving, have fallen to the bottom of the NBA offensive rankings and what factors have contributed to their challenges. Get the latest insight into their shot selection, offensive efficiency, and the impact of injuries as the Mavericks navigate a tough start.

Nick Angstadt breaks down why the Dallas Mavericks’ offense is so bad this year, the differences from last season, and evaluates lineup changes and coaching decisions by Jason Kidd. Listen for analysis on other Mavs players, including PJ Washington, Naji Marshall, Dereck Lively II, Daniel Gafford, D’Angelo Russell, and Max Christie. The episode also covers opposing teams like the Wizards, Pelicans, Pacers, and Raptors, plus front office moves involving Nico Harrison, with mentions of Klay Thompson and the team’s future under Mark Cuban and Patrick Dumont. Find out how the loss of Kyrie Irving, struggles with offensive rebounding, and shifts in playstyle have affected the Mavericks’ NBA hopes.

Stay tuned for more Mavs insights, predictions, and in-depth analysis on Cooper Flagg’s development, Anthony Davis’s conditioning, and what the Dallas Mavericks must do to turn their NBA season around.

0:00 Mavs’ Offensive Collapse Breakdown
12:16 Comparing This Year vs Last
20:41 Preseason Predictions Revisited

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