08-10-2024, 03:19 PM
(08-09-2024, 06:05 PM)ThisIStheYear Wrote: Less for Naji and Klay. A lot more for one of Widdie, Grimes, or Hardy (and one of those three falls out of the rotation). Maxi sits out a ton of games regardless of health (so Omax will get meaningful opportunities).
It's not just when Maxi is out. If any of Lively, Gafford or PJ are out then Maxi probably has more minutes on his plate than the Mavs want him to play in a regular season game. That's over a full season of games missed across those 4 players (based on last season), meaning Omax will probably have 5 to 10 minutes available to him most games if he can handle it. Yet most folks don't have him on their minutes chart because he doesn't make sense other than garbage time when the team is fully healthy (and another argument can be made that there should be a decent amount of garbage time when the team is fully healthy). This gets back to Gump's point that for the regular season it probably makes more sense to look at total minutes than minutes per game (which can fluctuate wildly depending on missed games).