The Dallas Mavericks lost to the San Antonio Spurs by 33 points Wednesday night in Dallas. Lack of spacing, shot creation, defensive cohesion – and too much Victor Wembanyama – are just some of the issues the Mavs struggled with in the nightmare start to the season.

During the preseason, the Mavs have been very vocal about wanting to be an elite defense this year. And after a lackluster effort on the defensive end in game one, Jason Kidd was asked what went wrong defensively in his post-game interview:

“Our offense. It starts offensively, so we’ve gotta be better offensively and that will help our defense.”

The Mavs seemed to struggle creating shots for others all game, but Kidd didn’t see it quite that way. The solution is simple, he says:

“We didn’t have trouble, we just didn’t pass

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