11-15-2022, 12:34 PM
(11-15-2022, 12:29 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: All I know (and care about) is what I watched with my own eyes in the playoff series (the point of the season) when the Mavs beat the Suns, getting him benched in the process.
I remember thinking "Man, I'm sure glad the Mavs don't have a guy like that in the rotation." And here we are, not even a month in, and it's literally what I expected. I mean perfectly spot on to what I would've predicted.
This is where stats let you down - when they tell you really stupid things like "McGee is going to be good here."
The stats didn't say he was going to be good here. They say he was ok last year. As mentioned above, an energy big in their mid 30s is a ticking timebomb to fall of a cliff. Add to that no monetary motivation as he just got his last contract he will ever get and the result is not surprising. I hated this signing, particularly the years. I was hopeful we would get at least some value out of him this first year. It looks like not even that is happening.
If there is any good to come of this (and Brown and Dragic) its that maybe Kidd will have less influence on GM decisions in the future.