MAVS NEWS:

[mvossman]

He now has a lower shooting efficiency for the season than Jaden Hardy. Literally only Kleber from our regular rotation is worse. Teams will gladly let him take shots. He has missed plenty of open looks, too. He was not brought in here to be literally the worst shooter on the team. Everybody was projecting a bounce back season with +40% 3pt shooting; from playing off Luka and Kyrie. 

But now we have to pretend he contributes to winning via being the gravitational pull, although Kidd has to emergency sub him during every 3rd quarter and finish the game with a different line-up.

Last six games he´s shooting 28% from the field. You know what be happening here, if THJ took 10 shots per game at 28%.

Mavs didn´t/don´t pay him $17M p.a. to be this. No need to sugarcoat this. I have seen enough to know this Kyrie/Luka/Klay thing won´t work. It might work incredibly well with Klay off the bench.

This seems like an overly negative take.  He is shooting 37% on large volume (10 three attempts per 36).  That is commanding plenty of defensive attention.  Unless you are Westbrook bad shooting, volume is probably a bigger driver of spacing than percentage.  His on court impact looks fine too.  He has a +9 net rating with one of the highest offensive ratings on the team (higher than Luka and Kyrie).  There are times when it makes sense to sub him for somebody like Grimes (who can also space the floor and is a better perimeter defender) but its not like Klay is hurting the team right now.