The Mavericks waived Facundo Campazzo to clear roster space to sign former All-Star point guard Kemba Walker. As the NBA's winter trade market approaches, Dallas has been exploring avenues to gain added ball handling and creation ability behind Mavericks star Luka Doncic and combo guard Spencer Dinwiddie, sources told Yahoo Sports. The Mavericks are looking to fill the gap that Jalen Brunson left in Dallas' lineup when he spurned the Mavs for New York in free agency following a sprint to the Western Conference finals. Now, the Mavericks' four-game slide has dropped Doncic and Co. to 9-10 and, at present, out of this season's postseason picture altogether.
Dallas Mavericks' Luka Doncic passes around Milwaukee Bucks' Brook Lopez during the first half of an NBA basketball game Sunday, Nov. 27, 2022, in Milwaukee. The Mavericks waived Facundo Campazzo to clear roster space to sign former All-Star point guard Kemba Walker. As the NBA’s winter trade market approaches, Dallas has been exploring avenues to gain added ball handling and creation ability behind Mavericks star Luka Doncic and combo guard Spencer Dinwiddie, sources told Yahoo Sports.
Campazzo was there, only nine games into Doncic’s career with Real Madrid, when the 16-year-old caught the veteran’s attention playing against Campazzo’s own Murcia team in December 2015. With just five points, four rebounds and four assists in 22 minutes of action, a wiry Doncic and his boyish grin held the poise of a seasoned professional. He bounced the ball to his own rhythm.
Redondo, who piloted Real Madrid’s under-16 teams that featured Doncic, guides many Spanish players in offseason skill work and has no shortage of exercises at his disposal. He’d run Doncic and Campazzo through as many game shots as he could in those post-practice windows: out of the pick-and-roll, off the dribble, driving and passing to the corner and then relocating for the ball to swing back and around, and find them wide open for a clear triple.
Redondo even tasked them with Shammgod dribbles, a patented move from New York legend God Shammgod, now coincidentally an assistant coach in Dallas. Only the most daring have flaunted that particular move in NBA games, let alone a tactic most constructive trainers think about incorporating into practice sessions. But this was Doncic, and the prodigy was exhausting every avenue to fine-tune his craft.
The Mavericks have gotten their taste of Doncic’s postseason brilliance, where last spring, he suddenly incorporated arguably the most dangerous post game in the league — a skill package he hadn’t yet developed during those shared days with Campazzo. Doncic is constantly growing and improving. And with elevated expectations following last year’s playoff run, there is no time to waste in surrounding Doncic with the best roster Dallas can assemble.
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