01-10-2023, 09:32 AM
(01-10-2023, 12:22 AM)mvossman Wrote: There is no question Dinwiddie has been bad on defense, but there is a ton of noise in those numbers. I was trying to show that noisy circumstances early on negatively affected his +/- for the season and you come back with a smaller sample.
I was offering a 41 game sample and then you shrunk it to something smaller, saying recently that it was better. I was showing that is NOT true, recently it has NOT gotten better and the 41 game size (NOT small) shows this is a massive problem (namely the defense which has been mine and many other's issues).
You come to on/off +/- with complete distrust insisting that it is always "noisy", so you will not trust it. I come to it trusting the numbers are telling us the truth. We are not going to agree on it when our starting points are totally different.
But at the end of the day, this is an indisputable fact: The Mavs have been a much, much more successful team at outscoring the opposition when SD hasn't played. Explain it away however you want, but the Mavs have not been a winning team with SD on the court (through 41 games and 1993 minutes of data).