Before tonight’s dunking festival, Dwight Powell was 25th in the league in completed jammeroonis. He made 7 more tonight, so he’ll probably be top 20 by the time the stats update. But that is still unacceptable. Powell has proven that if you throw it somewhere in the vicinity of the rim, he’ll go up and stuff it. He’s the king of lobs in Dallas, J.J. Barea got the party started earlier in the season, now everyone is getting involved. Even Dirk was getting involved.
He has flashed a bit of a jumper, but lately it seems like he’s more focused on doing damage in the paint. I mean, if Dirk’s not going to do it, someone has to do it, right? There was a time when I thought he might even be a semi-legit three-point shooter, but I don’t think that’s happening any time soon. Unless the Mavs want to go the Mark Madsen route and have him chucks tons of ill-advised triples in a blatant attempt to lose more games.
Speaking of losing games, Dallas avoided a regulation loss because of Powell’s putback as time expired. There wasn’t much celebration, and you know the reason why. I don’t even have to say it. If you want a hint, think war machines with treads. They ended up losing in overtime, so it wasn’t too costly, but they could have celebrated at least a little bit. Even Powell didn’t look excited, in fact he looked more upset than anything.