04-19-2021, 02:09 PM
(04-19-2021, 02:03 PM)Kammrath Wrote: I LOVE DFS and think he brings a lot to this team. But he is NOT two key things:
1) An elite shooter. DFS is 2nd worst in the NBA at corner 3 percentage for those who shoot more than 2 corner threes a game. He shoots 35% from corner three whereas almost everyone who shoots as many as he does shoots at least 40% from there and some up to 50% from there.
2) An elite defender. It is hard to quantify this, but IMO and according to many stats DFS is an average defender overall (better in some situations and pretty bad in others).
If his 32 mins could be upgraded to someone who actually did BOTH of those things that would improve this team a TON IMO. Teams constantly leave DFS open for threes knowing they usually won't be punished and also regularly attack him on defense (like with DeRozan the other night) exposing that he even though he gives you good effort and fight, he generally cannot lock anyone down completely.
Of those available, I'm not sure there is someone that is that upgrade in both of those categories. Ideally Maxi/DFS are rotational guys and you start one of the two based on matchups.
Maxi is the bigger problem right now which pains me to say as he's my favorite current Mav.