(12-15-2022, 01:23 PM)F Gump Wrote: What would a rest-of-season look like with Luka given a green light to amass more stats, play less defense, with a mandate to push the pace so that there are bigger stat numbers for everyone? Make sure the pace is sizzling. Do his numbers go through the roof? If you prioritize lots of minutes to kids and players who need more numbers to enhance their trade value, do more possessions hasten development, just by repetition, and do bigger stats create bigger trade values?
The kids would probably be the only benefit of bigger stats from a value perspective. Wood potentially too but that really doesn't help the Mavs out. I don't think Luka's numbers change all that much. He's already doing monumental things and you'd just be adding to his fatigue factor.