Mavs MVP at the 5% Mark (sans Luka)

[fifteenth]

Back at you…and welcome back.

It is a good problem to have that we have multiple candidates.  

I thought this was as good a place as any to point out that we shouldn’t sleep on Josh Green.  I came across a site called NBArotations.info that creates a heat map of when players are playing.  While some here don’t value what Josh does, it is clear the coaching staff does.  Josh is playing by far the most 4th quarter minutes.  It isn’t just the closing minutes.  He’s playing nearly the entire 4th so far this season.  It is significantly different than it was last season.

I'm not worried about Josh. Four games, during which the team is incorporating several new rotation players, is not a good sample size to use to claim much at all, especially that a player suddenly can't do what he did last season, or that the team who just paid him doesn't like him for some reason. 

Sounds like you might be ok with this early season guess: He may be valuable on this particular roster as a 2nd unit player who closes games because that puts him where he can thrive and where the team currently needs him most.