(09-15-2021, 01:35 AM)omahen Wrote: https://twitter.com/Mavs_FFL/status/1437...wcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fbleacherreport.com%2Fdallas-mavericks
To me all the recent developments suggest Burke gets stretch-waived/waived/traded, Ntilikina will take his place and we re-visit the whole Dragic situation in a few months again.
Although it was a very small sample size Ntilikina has been an excellent 3pt shot from the corners over the last two seasons (55%):
2019-2021: 27/49 (55%)
compared to
2017-2019: 15/48 (31%)
So there is an argument that if you play Ntilikina with Luka and park him in the corners, he could actually become a 3&D wing in the mold of DeShawn Stevenson. Question is how good his defensive impact will be, when he´s always positioned in the corners offensively and has a lot of ground to cover, for example in transition defense. Also you cannot expect much play-making either, but beggars and choosers at the moment....
Let´s look on the bright side. We won´t have to listen to any "we almost drafted Ntilikina"-stories from Cuban in ten years.
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