Accurately Assessing the Mavs Recent Personnel Changes

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I'm pretty sold on Marshall being a better player than DJJ. In fact, I think that's kind of obvious.

But, I think it's also obvious that the Mavs will miss DJJ, because of the POA defense and overall athletic ability, which are the two areas in which Marshall is NOT an improvement over him. Both of those two things were huge needs here in Dallas, but DJJ is in the top 1% of athleticism, even in the NBA, which is really saying something.

I think the Mavs got less athletic and a lot slower. DJJ and Green were probably the team's best weapons in transition, for example, and that's worth thinking about, because they keep telling us they want to play faster, even if they don't do so consistently. I think that got harder in a way, although now there are more people capable of handling the ball in transition, for sure.

I understand why they did what they did, I think, and I'm feeling really good about the season, but there are question marks going into it.