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[DanSchwartzgan]

Iit’s mostly semantics but with DJJ guarding the point of attack and GWill always guarding the biggest wing weak side I feel like it’s hard to label them the way 82games has. I understand the lineup data shows Exum/DJJ as a better +/- than the Exum/Williams pairing but there’s a lot of noise in there and ignores the fact that DJJ simply can’t guard a lot of the bigger wings that Williams can.

So, here are some more noisy stats.

When GWill is on the floor, the team’s D gives up 119.8 which is 1.8 points worse than when he’s off the court.  When he’s guarding the opponent’s four, the opponent achieves a PER of 21.6.

When DJJ is on the floor, the team’s D gives up 116.8 which is 4.4 points better than when he’s off the court.  When he’s guarding the opponent’s four, the opponent achieves a PER of 17.8.  

You may be too caught up in the idea that DJJ is ‘only’ a point of attack defender.  He has length and mobility that GWill doesn’t and the data says it works better in the aggregate than what GWill has been doing with his ability to body up bigger wings.