Tim Cato from ALLCITY DLLS joined the GBag Nation on the eve of the Mavericks' season opening game against the San Antonio Spurs. They discussed how this team can build on last year's Finals run, how he sees Klay Thompson sliding in on both offense and defense, and more!
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00:00How much of a factor do you expect clay to be like what are your clay expectations coming
00:21into the season?
00:22I think that's been my number one question for anybody who's covering this team to try
00:25and give the fans a better perspective on what we should be looking at here.
00:31I can tell you what I think he's going to look like.
00:34I think that he's going to be a guy who is very involved in the offense.
00:40Sometimes he's going to have the ball in his hands.
00:42He's going to run a pick and roll here or there.
00:45He's going to be playing two man game with Luca.
00:47He's going to be setting screens for Luca.
00:49Yes, he's going to have plenty of possessions where he's just spotting up in the corner
00:53and clay spotting up the corner is a very dangerous thing and defenses have to account
00:57for that.
00:58But it's not going to be stagnant.
00:59It's not going to be static.
01:00It's not just going to be clay.
01:03There's your little X on the court.
01:05Go stand there and run back when the shot goes up and make or miss.
01:11It's going to be a lot more involvement in there.
01:13Now, if you're talking expectation in terms of points or raw output, I don't know.
01:18I haven't really thought that through, but I think it's safe to guess that he's going
01:21to be the third leading scorer of this team.
01:24And, you know, to me, the expectations, you know, where I really have questions and what
01:28I want to see is how he performs defensively.
01:31And he says he wants to prove that he's still able to be that all defense guy he was a few
01:36years ago before the injuries or at least something close to that.
01:40That to me is the real expectations, because, you know, do I expect Clay Thompson to make
01:45threes or not?
01:46There's no expectation there.
01:47He's going to make threes.
01:48There's no concern about that.