MKG

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Despite MKG being good at it, Mavs as a team were still awful against Minny.

Team defense takes some time to build. MKG has played a total of 30 minutes. At the game live I saw individual and team defensive acumen on display.

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No it isn't. It is not foolish to suggest that he CAN be good on offense and that he HAS been good at fitting in to a team offense. 

Look, I will try one more time.

Basketball is a TEAM game. MKG may not be able to win one-on-one offensive matchups, but if he is really bad at team offense then his team will essentially be playing 4 on 5 and this WILL be reflected in the on/off numbers over the course of 1000s of minutes and hundreds of games. A player WILL have a on/off that is very negative over those sample sizes if they bring nothing to the table offensively and are simply a "liability." You cannot successfully hide for thousands of minutes over the course of years.  

The fact that he has three full seasons in the last five full seasons of being positive in offense from an on/off perspective means that he CAN be a solid to good TEAM offensive player (it is POSSIBLE). Meaning he is capable of taking advantage if a defense tries to ignore him. Meaning he is capable of not getting in the way of a team trying to execute its offense. 

Again, if you take a random dude off the street and stick him on an NBA team for five seasons and thousands of minutes he WILL have an on/off that is negative.

Good explanation. The question is "can good offensive units be constructed that include MKG?". I think it's fine to take some hope from past lineup stats. 

The other thing that has me interested in the MKG project is that Rick has shown the ability to find productive offensive roles for reclamation projects. 

I just want to see what Rick and MKG can do together.