MAVS NEWS:

[Chicagojk]

Thanks for posting this.  I think Grimes is going to be really good here.  A better (and much younger) Bullock.  As a high volume movement shooter, he is the perfect backup for Klay, but I think he will get more minutes than that.

What I sort of got from the article is that while Grimes may or may not be a better player than Josh Green, I think he fits better into the role the Mavs wanted Green to play.   I have said several times that the role the Mavs wanted Green to play was probably not the right role for him (at this time).  Green is a good passer and has the makings of a good connector.  It seems like the Mavs didn't value this part of his game very much.

While Green developed into a good open three shooter, you very rarely had to worry about him taking 8 threes in a game.   Typically a good shooting game for him was something like 3 for 5.   I think Grimes may be more willing to take more shots.   There is some good and bad with that, but I think teams will defend him like a more aggressive shooter as well.  As Iztok mentions, this will help to spread the floor a little bit as well.

I think Grimes will be asked to play the Josh Green role on defense as well.   Hopefully just better.  Green wasn't quite there yet as a man on man defender imo.   As Iztok mentions, Grimes should be able to navigate screens better than Green.  I will be interesting to see how Grimes guards the smaller point guards and also the 6'6-6'7ish wings.   

I also found it interesting how Iztok says he had someone tell him he may be the worst dribbling guard in the league.   While that is probably an overstatement, I think I agree that he is going to get most of his minutes as a wing while he may be asked to guard guards.   So him being on the court as a second or even third creator on the floor may not happen very regularly.