(08-03-2021, 12:58 PM)Bayliss Wrote: Bullock is basically Danny Green.  Which is fine for a contending team.  The Mavs aren’t there yet and unless they get secondary hall handler they will never be a contender.

(08-02-2021, 06:29 PM)Mavs2021 Wrote: Well it has to, unless you think he plays for the minimum. I bet it´s also the full MLE. This franchise is out of control.

They have signed

Bullock
Brown
THJ
Boban

and we are down to the 10.8 TPE to upgrade the rest of the roster!!!

Can you really sit there and lie to yourself saying that this was your idea of the MLE+ BaE?

Furthermore this now gives Ujiri all the leverage, cause where else are we supposed to get play-making from the open market now? Ujiri probably figured Dragic wasn´t so bad for Lowry, cause he can bend over the Mavs and generate his value there.

(08-03-2021, 07:18 PM)Hypermav Wrote: He is a competent defender, not a lockdown defender

(08-04-2021, 07:30 AM)DanSchwartzgan Wrote: The question is D.  The Dallas D was 4.6 points worse when JRich was in.  We are certainly adding marginal improvement there with the new guys as well.

(08-04-2021, 07:30 AM)DanSchwartzgan Wrote: I checked out NY lineups with Bullock last season.  Of the nine most used two-man lineups that include Bullock (so covers top 10 players in the rotation), all are positive except Payton.  In fact, the most positive lineups are with NY's other PG's Rose (+10.2) and Quickly (+13.6). 

The issue is that NY's most used five man lineup (Payton, Bullock, Barrett, Randle and Noel) didn't work (-4.6).  But the next seven most used five man lineups were all positive.  The issue was Payton's D.  NY was 8.5 points worse with him on the floor and 5.9 points of that came on the defensive end.  Hard to blame the catch and shoot 3&D guy...especially when lineups worked really well when Payton wasn't playing.  It made Bullock basically a net neutral to the O and the D when he played.

It is hard to get much out of the stats for Brown.  Houston had the 27th worst Net Rating, D Rating and O Rating in the league.  Brown was a neutral to the offense and improved the D by 3.5 points when he played.  There isn't much consistency to lineup data because they ran so many players through Houston last season.  The best two man combo was when Wall and Brown were in together.  Houston actually had some decent defenders, especially early in the season.  But things were pretty bad after the trades.  In 13 games in January Brown had a net rating of 12.9 with a DRating of 104.  He shot .426 from three and had a TS% of .587.  

One other thing of note about Brown and Bullock is both put up TS%'s right at .600 on offensively challenged teams.  JRich was .537 last season, so either of those guys taking JRich minutes will be a nice lift to offensive efficiency.  Add those two .600 TS%'s to Powell, WCS, Brunson, Finney and Maxi who did the same thing.  THJ was .589 on higher volume than those other guys.  Luka was .587 and KP was .582.  That kind of efficiency should improve our 9th place finish in O-Rating (who you going to leave).  The question is D.  The Dallas D was 4.6 points worse when JRich was in.  We are certainly adding marginal improvement there with the new guys as well.

I won't spend much time on Dragic until he is actually here, but he was a net positive last year spending most of his time quarterbacking the bench unit.  I think we may see more platooning this season as we are 10 deep and there is enough offense on the presumed bench unit of WCS, Maxi, Brown, Dragic and Brunson that the Non-Luka minutes should go better than they have in the recent past.

(08-06-2021, 05:53 PM)Kammrath Wrote: https://twitter.com/IsaacLHarris/status/1422341488403533827