THE GREEN MACHINE: The Subtle Emergence of Josh Green

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1.  Look at me, I'm Fox.  /Luka voice.
2.  Dallas was the 2nd worst fast break team in the league last year.
3.  DFS, Bullock, Frank
4.  Maxi
5.  70th best guard in rebounds per minute his rookie year, 16th best last season (his best trait?)
6.  He looks comfortable with the ball and this would be my pick for what he does best before stat hunting for this list.
7.  130th rank in assists per minute last year.
8.  Hard not to improve on that stat when you are a shooting guard and still very poor.
9.  2.4 attempts, 3.8 attempts (sample sizes)
10.  .64 attempts, 1.5 attempts (sample sizes)
11.  Debatable.
12.  So are Powell and Pinson.
13.  This is his 3rd year.  Also a bad idea to compare him to JB and Luka if you want to rewind the clock and look at their level of play at his age.  

The Mavs very well might be happy and hindsight and all but I bet they'd take a do over given the opportunity. The next three picks in that draft.

19. Saddiq Bey
20. Precious Achiuwa
21. Tyrese Maxey

Green was a weird pick for the Mavs who traditionally valued more ready players with higher floors than ceilings. Josh is a high ceiling guy and would probably look a lot different on a worse team that could afford him more opportunity.

Some comments here I don’t understand. Sample size seems like a pretty strange criticism of whole-season averages, especially on a per-game basis. At the same age, Jalen was playing for Nova. But whatever.