NEW ORLEANS - Dennis Smith Jr. came back Friday from a nagging wrist injury and armchair point guards everywhere already were looking for reasons why the second-year point guard and rookie Luka Doncic can’t coexist.
Rick Carlisle, meanwhile, is only worried about making sure they can.
Which shouldn’t be that hard, really, since neither player has given anybody any valid reasons to believe they can’t be a formidable one-two punch in the Mavericks’ backcourt for years to come.
“In my view,” Carlisle said before Friday’s gut-wrenching 114-112 loss to New Orleans, “it’s a very over-analyzed aspect of our team.