2019-20 Around the NBA: Archived

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Final stats for the Lakers series:

Tucker: 7 PPG / 6 RPG, 33% from the field.
Covington: 8 PPG / 4 RPG, 51% from the field. 4 PPG, 2.5 RPG. 33% from the field, last two games.

Dorian put up 10 PPG, 6 RPG, 3 APG against the Clippers, 44% from the field, 37% from three, while shutting down PG13. Also makes you wonder, hypothecially, what we could get for DFS. He´s very close to the Crowder/Covington level on an insanely cheap contract.  He´s a major asset.

He is not. Let´s play Dorian at center for 40+ minutes every night and see what happens. You probably won´t like the results. Tucker and RoCo are way better defenders.
They looked really good in the early bubble games and slowly started to fade with growing exhaustion. First round they had to bang against Steven Adams. Against the Lakers they had to guard AD.
DFS would look a lot worse in a similar situation. He isn´t nearly as strong as Tucker and not on RoCo level as a help defender and shot blocker.