Well after watching the game, having analyzed things that I have been seeing on twitter since yesterday I could not see the game and I have seen it in the morning etc.. I honestly think we played badly and quite a lot but it was something to be expected, Kawhi returned and he looked shaky (which is normal, he needs to train and having played this game gives us more than what we lose for having lost it) and the team in general did not look good.
The loss is not something alarming, in fact I think it was a good loss considering that Kawhi was out of shape, we only lost by 3 or 6 if you don't count PG's basket at the end and that taking into account that there were bad refereeing decisions like a ball given to Mavs saying it was deflected by Kawhi, the foul not called on Kyrie at the end and some other things that are really out of the team's control.
Why do I say that the loss is a good loss? Easy, taking into account that Kawhi was not in shape, and that Luka was excellent and not only on offense but also on defense we lost narrowly and by details, yesterday the Clippers outpaced Mavs in points in paint, 2nd chances, points off turnovers, fast break points, opp. turnovers, offensive rebounds, midrange FGs made, and free throws made in Game 2 the only thing we failed in were the three pointers and the truth is that quite a lot, Harden yesterday made 2/10, Kawhi made 0/5, Mann 1/3, Russ 1/3 and PG 2/5 Kawhi's may be attributed to the lack of minutes but Harden is nonsense he made three pointers that had no sense and it is clear that he was going to miss them is something inexplicable, even so I trust Ty Lue to make some adjustments to solve this.
What would I do to fix it? In my opinion Powell can't have so many minutes against Dallas, don't get me wrong Norm is very good and has given us a lot coming off the bench but against Dallas he is being overmatched and on defense he doesn't contribute anything for me the change is clear AMIR COFFEY has to have more minutes than Powell just like that I think with this adjustment and with Kawhi more in shape we should pass the series, I don't even talk about Plumlee because there is nothing that can be done, I don't think Theis can contribute more and Kai Jones... There is nothing else to do but try to keep Big Zu out of foul trouble so soon so Plumlee plays as least as possible.