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[mvossman]

In the last 15 games...

SD's on-court defensive rating is 118.4...the NBA's worst defense (SAS) has a 118.7 rating.

When SD is off the court in those same 15 games the defensive rating is 105.6....the NBA's best defense (CLE) has a 109.0 rating. 

So in the last 15 games (not old news) the Mavs basically play the worst defense in the league when SD plays and the best defense in the league when he sits. 

And for the whole season, his on-court D rating is 114.7 and his off-court D rating is 107.3. There is absolutely no way to look at the data IMO that does not come back to the conclusion that SD is central to the Mavs defensive struggles.

There is no question Dinwiddie has been bad on defense, but there is a ton of noise in those numbers.  I was trying to show that noisy circumstances early on negatively affected his +/- for the season and you come back with a smaller sample.  Look at the numbers you are showing.  For the last 15 games with no Maxi or Green or Dorian all we had to do was not play Dinwiddie and we would have had the best defense in the NBA.  Do you see how ridiculous that result is?  This team is going to be crappy at defense right now with him on or off the court (more crappy with him on).  Saying he is cental to their struggles is waw overstated.

If we look at the whole season, Dinwiddie's D rating is not good at 115.  But a quick glance shows Dorian at 115, Luka and Bullock at 114 and Wood and Timmy at 113.  That's basically your top 6 rotational players and they are all within a point or two on D rating.  Don't know why we are calling Dinwiddie out specifically.