GAME 5 Playoffs 2024: Oklahoma City Thunder (2-2) vs. Dallas Mavericks (2-2)

[mvossman]

If I read you right, you're comparing a rookie DFS to a Josh Green who has been playing in the NBA for 4 years without comparable movement. I'm not entirely sure that's worth remembering.

Josh Green is a decent rotation player, and I do expect he will be better in 4-5 years, but if his trend line is constant he'll only be a slightly better rotation player.

Are you sure its not comparable movement?  Actually Josh improved significantly more across his first three seasons than Dorian did.

DFS points/gm:  4.3  5.9  7.5
Josh points/gm: 2.6  4.8  9.1

DFS TS%:  49  48  53
Josh TS%: 49  58  65

DFS took his big step in his 4th season at age 26.  Josh took a small step back in his forth season at age 23.  There is still plenty of room for growth.  Dorian was always the better defender.  I had hopes that Josh would take a bigger jump defensively at some point, but it hasn't happened yet.  As someone mentioned above, growth is not linear as both these players have shown, and being so young there is reason to hope Josh has another jump in him before he peaks.