2021-2022 MAVS NEWS: 4th in West | WCF loss [ARCHIVED]

[ItsGoTime]

White’s name is coming up a lot. 

How good is this guy? I’d like to hear a comp up and a comp down. Trading Maxi is quite a big hurdle for me.

There are 2 White's. Derrick and Coby.

Derrick White has been with SA for 4 years and is 6'4", 190 lbs at 27yo. He's been a decent defender and a pretty good ball handler/off guard/scorer:
Box score stats for 20-21 season:
15ppg, 3.5apg, 3rpg, .346 3P% on 6.8 attempts, .486 2P% on 5.8 attempts, .851 FT% on 3.2 attempts, .503 eFG%, .7spg, 1bpg, 1.3topg in 29.6mpg

82games.com stats for 20-21 season stats:
http://www.82games.com/2021/20SAS4.HTM#onoff
basketball-reference.com stats:
https://www.basketball-reference.com/pla...ede01.html
I see him maybe in the mold of a Satoransky, a new thing I hadn't seen or paid attention to on bb-ref.com is Similarity Scores. Read a bit of the explanation and got tired head halfway through, but some notable similarities (Thru 3 years) that we would know are: Adrian Griffin, Travis Best, Kyle Lowry, Kelenna Azubuike, Lenny Wilkins and Charlie Bell.

He's improved his numbers every year he's been in the league. He's survived a tough coach in Popovich and moved from PG to SG 2 years ago. He's had a lot of foot issues mostly: https://www.foxsports.com/nba/derrick-wh...r-injuries and has only played in 17, 67, 68 and 36 games from earliest to most recent. That's not good.  

Coby White is more an offensive threat and less a defender to this point in his career. At 6'5", 195 lbs and 21 yo he is 5 2/3ish years younger than Derrick, and has been in the league for 2 years.
Box score stats for 20-21 season:
15.1ppg, 4.8apg, 4.1rpg, .359 3P% on 6.6 attempts, .473 2P% on 6.5 attempts, .901 FT% on 2.1 attempts, .506 eFG%, .6spg, .2bpg, 2.3topg in 31.2mpg

82games.com stats for 20-21 season stats:
http://www.82games.com/1920/19CHI3.HTM
basketball-reference.com stats:
https://www.basketball-reference.com/pla...eco01.html
He's more on (hehe, I said moron) Luka's timeline that could be a running mate through his early career. He's being totally squeezed out in Chi with all their G acquisitions (maybe Ball gets reversed and they will need him much more). Not shown to be a true PG so far, but has good handles with plenty of room to improve. He's played in 65 games last year and 69 this year, so not as much an injury concern. Coby has much better accuracy in his midrange game than Derrick, but neither uses it very much. Derrick is 10% better than Coby from 0-3 ft.

I think there is really good opportunity with both guys if we could get 1, actually moreso than if we had gotten Lowry, IMO, due to age and contract.