Mavs rotation

[soog]

Tip top analysis.

I wonder how much of these statistics are influenced by his nature to be streaky? (When he’s playing bad he gets relegated to the bench; also when he’s playing good he gets promoted to start) do you have any feelings on this as a true/false context?

Digging into it, I think it's something ever more simple than that.  The 13 games he came off of the bench in the 19/20 season were the first 13 games of the season.  He was moved into the starting line up on 11/20/2019 and everything changed.  I've added two rows to show his stats before and after 11/19/2019.  You can see that he has more or less been the same player after that date even after he was moved back to the bench for periods this year.  I still have several questions though:

1) Why has he been so consistent since 11/19/2019 regardless of whether he starts?  
- My guess is it could be the confidence in knowing the mavs are committed to him and he's not just a "throw in" from the KP trade. I’d also guess it has something to do with having a more defined/known role than he had prior to this point which was mentioned by @ItsGoTime.
2) Why is there a very minor drop off in performance when coming off of the bench?  
- My guess here is that Luka makes everything easier for everyone.  I would take that one step further and say that KP, regardless of your feelings about him, does the same.  When Timmy starts he is the 3rd person defenses are worrying about.  When Timmy comes off of the bench he is likely doing it with one of either Luka or KP going out meaning that he becomes more of a focal point of the opposing team's defense and possibly drawing the better wing defender in the case of Luka being out.

Regardless of those questions, this gives me confidence that Timmy has been and will continue to be consistent in his performance regardless of whether he starts or comes off of the bench given that is what he has shown the ability to do over the last 134 games.  And while I don't think we should "throw out" the 13 games he came off of the bench to start 2019, I do think they are outliers and don't support the argument that "Timmy is terrible as a 6th man".