Every year, it seems too many people forget that NBA game played in October are high comedy and not representative of what we will see later in the year.
Teams have not gelled, players are not ready to go, and everything is sloppy.
For example:
This is one of the worse sequences you will ever see.
In a less-egregious way, similar not-readiness played out all over the court last night. The Indiana Pacers and Dallas Mavericks both blew routine assignments and let players wide open.
On offense, people missed passes and, as we see here, just are not yet ready to hold onto the ball properly.