2020-2021 ROSTER TALK: Archived

[Mavs2019]

Trae Young had the worst DRPM of the last few years in his first two seasons. As I mentioned in the post above. The sample size is still really small and Richardson ranks among the worst Mavs in overall net rating so far. Mavs are -11.4 with him on the floor. Only one worse is Powell at -12.3. Richardson played a lot of minutes in the bad games early in the season and was out during the recent winning streak




Roles and expectations? Maxi is a spot up shooter on offense. Nothing more nothing less. So far he has the single best offensive rating on the team because of his hot shooting start. Maxi is also way cheaper and doesn´t expect starter money and minutes.



I am waiting for the days where people finally move on from the medieval way to look at counting stats and start to look at synergy, lineups and tracking data.
You don´t have to agree with everything the numbers are telling you but there is no way to deny that DeRozan has been a bad defender for his entire career. Inserting him into the lineup is the best way to turn the 2nd best defensive into an average one.
Not to mention that I am not even sure if he would help on offense.

Do you have any scientific data to back this up? So in the end you are just guessing after crunching all the numbers. I don´t need to do that to know we´d lose some on defense and gain some on offense with DeRozan, but until it plays out nobody knows whether we´d be a worse or better team overall.