11-15-2022, 10:10 AM
(11-15-2022, 01:03 AM)F Gump Wrote: Your insistent doom-and-gloom on this is not well founded at all.
SD shot almost 41 on 3s in Dallas last season. The way he was used, and the shots he was getting (combined with the shots he didn't have to force) compared to team situations for him previously changed the context for him. The workload changed also, and the players around him. Getting better looks, and in better situations, makes a difference.
I suspect he worked on skills this summer to complement the new paradigm. Why wouldn't he? And why wouldn't that work pay off?
This season, his percentages so far are UP, not down. I think it far more likely that SD is who the numbers are saying he is, than the idea he is eternally confined to the mediocre results that resulted from other team contexts. And by the way, whether or not he stays at 46% is not a defining line - the issue is really whether he can be a legit 3 point threat here, or someone whose 3 pt shot can be ignored as was the case on prior teams.
Its really strange that you think a simple statement that a small sample is likely to regress is "doom and gloom". I don't think Green is going to shoot 50% for the year either. Is that doom and gloom? I think Maxi, Bullock and Luka will be over 30% by the end of the season. Is that sunshine pumping?
As far as this silly argument is concerned, the issue is whether he will continue to shoot 46%. That is because what triggered it was the simple statement I made that Dinwiddie will likely regress. That's not doom and gloom, its math.
Nobody said Dinwiddie could not improve, nobody said his shot profile would not be better in Dallas and nobody said he won't be a 3 point threat. That is moving the goalposts. I simply suggested he will very likely not be shooting 46% all year. That number would have been the best in the league last season.