03-26-2021, 07:36 AM
(03-26-2021, 07:13 AM)Kammrath Wrote: A few things:
1) You make a GREAT point about the starting five. They continue to play amazing offense together and the best justification for the Mavs doing nothing at the TDL is their +12.5 net rating. Thanks for the reminder on that, we all need to be reminded of this data.
2) However your statement "the Mavs defense got unquestionable better with Jrich than without" is unequivocally false. The defense has been worse, MUCH worse with JR. The Mavs are 6.0 pts worse defensively this season in every minute he has played (1056 mins) versus when he has sat (965 mins). The offense has been better by 1.4 pts with JR, so if anything he has helped the offense.
3) The great starting lineup is playing better offense than anything the Mavs did last year, BUT they are also playing much worse defense, 5.8 pts worse in fact. So the net result of all the changes that happened this offseason have resulted in better offense and worse defense for what has become the starting core.
What do the comparative results for J-Rich, and for the team, look like if we exclude everything before they recovered from covid and were able to start playing together healthy? Both player vs team, and year (2019-20) over year (the last part of 1920-21)?
There have been a lot of weird factors that have altered numbers this season, if we use them all at face value and equal value. Lop off the first half or so, when it was really a disaster on so many levels, and the rotations were really patchwork, and use the stats from g 22 onward, and I wonder if maybe it tells a different story.