Finney-Smith at the SF, Improvement in Rebounding

[DanSchwartzgan]

The kind of stats called “counting” stats aren’t really all that helpful in situations like this, because this isn’t baseball. If two players who both average 12 rebounds per game are put together on the same team, it’s not as if they’re going to average 24 rebounds per game as a tandem. That’s just not something that any real basketball fan would believe. You can compare counting stats of one player to a player with a similar role on an opposing team - that can be helpful.  But within a team, it’s all about skill set fit, play style, chemistry, etc, etc, etc.

The same is true of scoring as well...no?

Was DFS a more productive player at PF last season because he was at PF?  Or, was it because when he was at SF Porzingis was eating up a bigger share of the offensive load and the opportunities were dramatically diminished?  Hard to say with certainty whether it was taking advantage of matchups or his place in the pecking order.  He was basically the fourth option in the first half of the season.  It could be argued he was the third option the second half of the season when playing with a non-KP big, Bullock and two guards.  

I think pretty clearly DFS will return to being the fourth option (a good thing to me) in lineups with Luka, (SD or THJ) and Wood.  BTW, DFS was a more productive player offensively at SF than PF in 20-21 (so the opposite of 21-22).  In both seasons he defended his position better as a SF.