A Few Thoughts on Mavs 122, Magic 106

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KP has been on a different level for seven games now with six of them being great plus a bit of a stinker against Washington.  In those seven games he's averaged 24.3 points and 10.4 boards.  He's getting to the line 8 times a game, hitting 40% of his 3's and .517 from the field.  It comes to 1.44 points per shot attempt.

Something I find interesting...shot attempts for the season are 15.2 per game and he's only taking 16.8 shots per game in this stretch.  So, he's doing this on only 1.6 more shots per game.  He's just hitting more of them.  FG% has gone from .417 to .517.  FTA's have gone from 4.5 to 8.  He was getting shots before, but they were mostly stand above the break and we'll throw you the ball every once in a while (which works for Maxi).  But, that kind of inactivity may have been tough for KP to take.  Now he's more integral to the offense and much more involved in plays and it seems to get his juices flowing.  If we are still having this conversation in March, watch out

Excellent comments! Thanks for providing some of the numbers that underlie and affirm what our eyes have been telling us!