Dallas Mavericks · 6 notes
Analyst Devin Harris expects Kyrie Irving, out 19 months, to be eased back. His view, not team word: "I would be shocked if he actually played that Indiana game." Dallas opens with 3 games in 4 nights, the Spurs home opener the back end of a back-to-back.
Zaccharie Risacher's job while defences load up on Kyrie Irving and Cooper Flagg: run the floor, push the pace, chase rebounds off teammates' misses and cut behind his man. "Those backdoor cuts for easy layups are going to be huge," Mavericks analyst Devin Harris said.
Rookie Sergio de Larrea "looks like a guy that could play in the rotation," Dusty May said at Dallas Mavericks practice; teammates play better around his passing. May doesn't want only Cooper Flagg and Kyrie Irving carrying Dallas: "those guys are going to be worn down."
"Just to see Kyrie back competing like he was, I thought he made a lot of really good passes." Dusty May liked what Kyrie Irving showed in the Mavericks' postgame against the Hawks, and said Irving trusted his teammates.
Tobi Lawal said the Mavericks want him as an aggressive defender beside Cooper Flagg, Kyrie Irving, P.J. Washington and Naji Marshall, "interchangeable in any spot," and getting into the offense off screens. On sitting with five fouls he hadn't noticed: "Apparently I'm a hack."
Rookie Ebuka Okorie's ball-handling drew a Kyrie Irving comparison from Ausar Thompson, and Ronald Holland II signed on after Okorie's big moment in the Pistons' Oct. 5 game: "I just seen AT compare him to Kyrie Irving, his handles. And I can agree with that."