2022 NBA Draft: #37 Jaden Hardy (6' 3", 6' 9" WS) to DAL | two 2nds to SAC

[Mavs2021]

Sorry to do this in the draft thread, but peak Holmes was in 20/21, not last season.  He had an EPM of 93 was in the 90th percentile of Block%, 87th percentile in DR% and 96th percentile in TS%.  Damian Jones has a negative EPM every single year of his career.  He's never once had a positive On-Off.  There is more to basketball than points and rebounds per game.  

The case for Holmes is very similar to the case for Dinwiddie (which so many here missed).  Dinwiddie was fantastic his final full pre-injury season in Brooklyn.  He didn't look like himself at all in DC, but largely returned to form once he got here.  Holmes put in three really nice seasons as a starter before last season.  Dallas might not be the best place for a guy with domestic violence charges hanging over his head, but he's miles better than Damian Jones or anyone we can get for the TP-MLE.

As to draft picks, a big man taken at 26 is years away from contributing to a serious playoff team.  The hit-rate in this area of the draft isn't high.  Yes, anyone can name names taken in this range or lower.  But what about all the misses.  No one ever names those names and there are MANY more of those.  If it weren't so, two former #8 picks in the draft wouldn't be sitting on our bench struggling to get minutes.

I get it. You think basketball is just math and statistics. That´s why for the last three years you tried to convince us that Dwight Powell is some special basketball talent because of his advanced metrics. Then every year around the play-offs, when the game of basketball is played and not the math olympics, you go into hiding just like Powell. Rinse and repeat next regular season, when Dwight Powell goes 9/11 with 12 rebounds during a meaningless regular season game in December against a tanking Houston Rockets team.