(11-01-2019, 12:46 PM)Benskix2 Wrote: I'm not sure where you are getting your insight into how the coach views DP, but it has never been reflected in his actual role on the team unless you are counting the games we were actually trying to lose.
Not going to take time to dig up quotes, but:
-DP was a key rotation piece all last season, including during the portion where we were trying to win. His role was greater during that time than the role you suggest for him.
-The Mavs invested key rotation piece money in DP in the offseason.
-Media members with access to Mavs' staff said all offseason that the Mavs planned to start DP and that they liked the KP/DP skill sets together.
-Mavs' people (including coach, GM, owner) have talked about DP as a key piece all offseason.
-In DP's first game back he started.
That's my evidence.
Look, I argued a lot for Powell to come off the bench because I wanted a lineup with KP as the only big. But I have to concede that the Mavs clearly aren't thinking like me either.