(01-17-2023, 05:34 PM)StrandedOnBeauboisHill Wrote: One thing that injuries to a team can really highlight is how much national pundits are really paying attention to details at a team level (it's very difficult so it's not really their fault). Hollinger watching a game with 5 of our 8 rotation players out and trying to make anything of "the rest of the roster" is kind of funny to me.
Russilo did this the other day in his podcast. He admittedly doesn't watch a lot of Mavs because "Luka is so good it's boring" and then when listing off injuries "that should be noted" he kind of laughed at the idea "the also keep listing Josh Green because I guess he's a huge part of the rotation now". Shit like that drives me crazy, Josh Green was arguably our 2nd most consistent contributor before he got hurt and we get some sarcastic hand waiving from a guy who prides himself on reporting player development?
It's just weird to me because I like a respect Russilo because he clearly watches a TON of games but it's always clear to me who isn't watching YOUR games when they say stuff like that.
Green is still a 7/2/1 guy. The shooting numbers and the advanced stats are good this year, but I hardly blame national writers not knowing that. They can´t go that deep into the analysis of every player on 30 different teams.
I think the real problem is that the national doesn´t nearly sh*t enough on all the dumb stuff Cuban does. If Skip wasn´t such a bum, he could have wound up Cuban to no end and finally gotten his revenge for 2011.
