THE CRUCIFIX: Cato: Wood isn't thrilled w/ his role...Will depart in the summer

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He´s nowhere near good enough to be a #2 and neither is Dinwiddie. He´s a #4/#5 most likely, if you play to his strength. He´s a spot up shooter/finisher and can drive in open space. In a half-court setting his dribble penetration into traffic is a turnover waiting to happen. Currently for every assist, he commits three turnovers. Of course that is once again a result of a player with tunnel vision being asked to do too much. Ideally we get him extend for $10M year and have him play of three better players/creators that just get him the ball in his spots. If they give him something crazy like $20M, we´ll start to hate all his bad tendencies very quickly.

Show me a current team with a number 4/5 option that has shown he can put up 20ppg on 60% TS. I'll wait. Also he was absolutely asked to do more for Houston than he is in Dallas and put up 19.1 PPG on 59.3% TS with 2.1 assists to 1.9 turnovers. Doing less in Dallas, he's at 15.6 PPG at a ridiculous 65.3% TS. The higher turnover rate he has is not remotely uncommon for players moving to a new team learning a new system. So saying he's being forced to do too much when he's already doing what he's doing at an uber elite efficiency, while having done much more previously at a still elite efficiency is just factually wrong. Also he's a big. Even the leagues elite offensive bigs aren't very good at dribble penetration into traffic in a half court setting. That's what dedicated ball handlers are for. By that metric only ball handling guards/wings can be number 1 or 2 options. Wood actually has way above average handles for his position.

He's good enough to be a number 2 option if given the opportunity with a phenom like Luka and good enough role players around. He's easily the most offensively gifted scorer this team has had in Luka's time.

If you are gonna hate on a players bad tendencies who can score with the efficiency he does, you're not gonna be happy unless the team gets an unobtainable superstar to fill that number 2 role.