03-25-2022, 01:12 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-25-2022, 01:23 PM by HoosierDaddyKid.)
(03-25-2022, 11:20 AM)KillerLeft Wrote: Yeah, I feel silly for ever wondering if Dinwiddie was a fit here. Silly.
I was dead set against Dinwiddie or DeRozan because I thought both would have trouble playing off of Luka when they didn't have the ball. DeRozan probably would've been fine, too, but even more to the point, I thought DeRozan would've been bad here and Dinwiddie would've been worse. If Dinwiddie keeps shooting the 3-ball as he has been, not only is a fit, but an even better fit than DeRozan, imho.
Luka's numbers are (fairly significantly) worse since they teamed up, way more so than Brunson's, who we were more worried about. But, the team's offense seems generally better and more reliable. Luka seems way more comfortable playing with Dinwiddie than he did with Porzingis, for example, and in time I expect the pairing to look even better.
Just goes to show how ill-equipped for the job Delon Wright and Josh Richardson were. We used those experiments to make judgement calls on player types and their fits, but it turns out those guys just weren't good enough to do the job.
Have to disagree with you about Dinwiddie being a better fit than DeRozan. DeRozan is the far better shooter and scorer, and his off-the-charts mid-range game would really help Luka as well as his knack for drawing fouls and getting to the FT line 8-10 times a game. Dinwiddie has played well, but I suspect he'll fall back to the mean. You just don't know when. I'd take DeMar over him in a heartbeat.