TDL Archived: The 2nd Rnd Pick Yankee Swap

[mvossman]

I was offering a 41 game sample and then you shrunk it to something smaller, saying recently that it was better. I was showing that is NOT true, recently it has NOT gotten better and the 41 game size (NOT small) shows this is a massive problem (namely the defense which has been mine and many other's issues).

You come to on/off +/- with complete distrust insisting that it is always "noisy", so you will not trust it. I come to it trusting the numbers are telling us the truth. We are not going to agree on it when our starting points are totally different. 

But at the end of the day, this is an indisputable fact: The Mavs have been a much, much more successful team at outscoring the opposition when SD hasn't played. Explain it away however you want, but the Mavs have not been a winning team with SD on the court (through 41 games and 1993 minutes of data).

So the entire point of your post is that Dinwiddie is the primary issue with team defense, and I used your same numbers to show that Dorian, Luka, Bullock, Wood and Timmy are almost as bad.

Now you are moving the goalposts entirely (no longer focusing specifically on his defense) and looking at his net rating for the season without any context and claiming we are not a winning team with Dinwiddie on the court (its "indisputable").

If we are going to treat individual net rating of less than half a season with no context as gospel, then why are you not clamoring for Powell to start over Wood and get more minutes?  He has by far the highest net rating on the team and much higher than Wood.