02-22-2021, 01:54 PM
(This post was last modified: 02-22-2021, 06:37 PM by dirkfansince1998.)
(02-22-2021, 01:26 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: He has played well SOMETIMES, which is what I've said consistently. Definitely not all the time, no.
Clowning him? I'm not trying to clown anyone at all. Not sure where that's coming from. I have no problem with Wright, just a slight annoyance with revisionist history. Now that he's hurt, what will happen next is that DSJ will get a stretch of games where he plays a lot - maybe even starts. At some point, he'll put up some points and dish out some assists in a game and people will login here to tell us about how Carlisle wasn't a good enough coach to develop him properly, or that Donnie messed up by trading him for KP. This WILL happen, because it has never not happened before, with literally any player the Mavs have let expire/traded away. If I was clowning anyone (I wasn't), it was the crowd that enjoys doing that.
We obviously don´t know if he would be just as good for Dallas (based on last seasons performance he wouldn´t) but him playing good SOMETIMES is enough to put up better numbers than any Mavs player not named Luka.
Just compare him to the current Mavs. With his numbers he would rank 3rd in PER, 2nd in WS and WS/48, 2nd in BPM, 2nd in VORP.
He wasn´t just putting up numbers on a bad team. Yes the Pistons are really bad but that´s not on him. On/off numbers are really telling the story. With Grant and Wright on the floor the Pistons are putting up a fight in most games but that´s not enough to compensate for a terrible bench.
I don´t think trading Wright was a mistake. He wasn´t even in the rotation in the most important games of the season but I still remember that people called me crazy when I was complaining about the trade. I predicted that Johnson would have no on court value. It was all about plan powder 2021. If they don´t trade Johnson (5 weeks left) it´s basically confirmed.