03-09-2024, 11:42 AM
(03-09-2024, 11:10 AM)KillerLeft Wrote: I am nowhere close to being a "numbers guy," which proves (again) that you're not here to pay attention.
I have paid attention.
Its all an elaborate lie to mask determinism.
hehe
But yeah...there is too much information for me to dissect. And(here is one for paying attention)...Im not dumb enough to waste a bunch of time trying to dissect something when there is a lot of missing information(what the exact game plan is by coaching staff and why, what is happening in practices, purpose for certain lineups, short term/long term goals of team).
I am basically only able to have an uneducated, layman's macro-view on the Mavericks. Eye-test, so to speak. Numbers/scheme guys like THJ...eye-test guys see the worst chucker in the league by a wide margin who kills offensive possession while never ever ever once thinking of passing a basketball or thinking of making the best bball play. But...I get the numbers side of it to an extent.
I was against PJ for impact/needle moving reasons...he never jumps off screen when I watched him in Charlotte. So I wasnt for serious assets to be used on him...while also more interested in Kuzma size and skill(without contract figures muddy the convo). But Mavs took a risk on a guy that has IDEAL size and IDEAL bball fundamentals even though his defensive numbers supposedly are trash. And guess what...it worked. Why? I postulate that it is because he has satisfactory bball fundamentals which this team has had a deficiency in. It seemed like this team was after scheme and numbers but what it really needed was fundamentally sound bball players like PJ. Like eye-test guys scream for.
Numbers matter, but so does bball fundamentals and making good decisions on the court.