The Rotation (2020-2021)

[Jason Terry]

Let’s not forget that we were the best offense in the league last year. It’s other teams that need to adjust their lineup to us or they will get ran out the gym. Rick will set the defensive tone day 1 and minutes should be based more around who is effective both sides of the court. I’m all for a small ball trial run just to see what works defensively. We will be great offensively no matter who plays when

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I don’t see how we have enough info to make the statement in bold.

You don't think ~4000 minutes of DFS on the court is enough?

I am looking at the last two seasons combined. The Mavs in BOTH years were about +3 net better with DFS at SF/3 than PF/4. In addition, DFS's PER is worse when he is the PF/4 and so is his defense (based on opponent's PER). It is across the board consistent for thousands of minutes. Not sure how we could call that not enough info.

You may be right. We have different personnel this year though. I think it will have an effect. DFS was often asked to guard the other teams best player