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So, here are some more noisy stats.

When GWill is on the floor, the team’s D gives up 119.8 which is 1.8 points worse than when he’s off the court.  When he’s guarding the opponent’s four, the opponent achieves a PER of 21.6.

When DJJ is on the floor, the team’s D gives up 116.8 which is 4.4 points better than when he’s off the court.  When he’s guarding the opponent’s four, the opponent achieves a PER of 17.8.  

You may be too caught up in the idea that DJJ is ‘only’ a point of attack defender.  He has length and mobility that GWill doesn’t and the data says it works better in the aggregate than what GWill has been doing with his ability to body up bigger wings.

Less noisy and quite interesting for sure but now I’m really curious who those PFs are since the same data set says Grant Williams is a SF.

I certainly may be too focused on how they’ve been used so far and not giving them enough credit for their ability to defend bigger wings but there isn’t a +/- number in the world that would make me feel comfortable with DJJ or Exum against KAT, Aaron Gordon, Lebron James, Kawhi Leonard or KD which is what you’re asking them to do. Grant Williams was brought in exactly for those matchups and I doubt they move away from that now.

All just my opinion though and interested to see how these rotations shake out.