TDL Archived: The 2nd Rnd Pick Yankee Swap

[F Gump]

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 central to their struggles is way overstated.

Great insight. Thanks.

About SD, I see no value in the cherry-picked numbers used to create a negative agenda about him, because I think the idea he needs to go is transparently dumb. All I have to do is remember that the Mavs need 3 superior playmakers to drive the offense and keep it from being a perennial one-man Luka show, and SD's the only useful one of those they really have other than Luka.

They need one more, not one less. And I bet the Mavs are well aware of that.