What are our expectations for Dereck Lively in 2024?
Mavericks center Dereck Lively II burst onto the scene as a rookie last season, exceeding all of our expectations. But what will he do for an encore in 2024? The K&C Masterpiece discussed their expectations for Lively on Tuesday's show.
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00:00Seeing Derek Lively go coast-to-coast in a preseason game, I'm gonna ask you this.
00:06Are our and my expectations for his acceleration in year two going to be too high?
00:13No.
00:14Hell yeah.
00:15Um, and I don't, I say this because he did want to spend this offseason adding threes.
00:23And whenever he was given the chance last year, he made them.
00:26Yes.
00:27And he was like, I can do this.
00:28I just, they don't, they don't want me to do it yet.
00:30So that was the thing that kind of hindered their offense a little bit at times.
00:34If he can leak out a little bit and do that, then Kevin, the sky is the ceiling is the
00:40roof for that, for that moment.
00:42So I don't think, I don't really know what your expectations are.
00:47Like if you're saying MVP, maybe yes, maybe it's a little too high.
00:51Are you, where are you?
00:53Are you a NBA second team?
00:5613 and nine.
00:57Dude.
00:58If he makes all NBA second team, we're going to be the number one seed in the West.
01:02You believe that the other three guys, the other three veterans are good enough.
01:08Well, plus if you're second team, all NBA, that means you're one of the 10 best players
01:11for the season.
01:12So we're going to get the number one seed.
01:14If that happens.
01:1513 and nine, 13 points a game, nine rebounds a game.
01:19That's what I'm hoping.
01:20I'd like 1311.
01:21I mean, that'd be great.
01:23Anything in between there would suck.
01:25Yes.
01:26And be out of date.