Carlisle: No choice but to go hard

The Mavericks worked on defense in the morning and just
finished a two-hour workout that focused on offense this evening.
 
On Wednesday, it’ll be one practice combining the two,
he said.
 
With a veteran team, there’s no need to overdo it with
two-a-days. However, he said no matter how many practices there are in camp,
they will all be full-bore workouts.
 
“The only way we’re going to get better defensively
is to play hard all the time,’’ Carlisle said. “We have a
strategy of how we’re going to do practices. But if things aren’t
going good, it could all change.’’
 
Carlisle is working with a slightly tweaked coaching staff
this year. Assistant coach Tom Sterner took a job with Philadelphia scouting
and former player-development coach Monte Mathis has been moved up to assistant
coach. Also, Popeye Jones left the player-development staff to join Avery
Johnson in New Jersey.
 

Comments

[Ringsthething]

One of the oldest teams in the league is going to improve this year by playing hard at defense all the time... yeah, that sounds like the way to build a better team than last year (since Cuban didn't add any of the top talent that is the usual way to build a better team year to year). Let's just pull ourselves up by our bootstraps. That has worked SO well the last four seasons.