2019-2020 Mavs Trade Discussion + Salary Chart

[dirkfansince1998]

Why don´t you provide the numbers yourself and actually make a case that backs up your opinion? I cannot find them.
I can tell you that the Mavs bench outscored the opponents bench in 9 games in january and only was outscored 2 times. But that probably won´t convince you as well.

We both do not have the numbers it seems. So only the eye test is left. My eye test said throughout the season they blew a lot of good leads made by starters. Whenever Luka was out, we were consistently losing points in many games. Bench players that tend to come in alone along with Luka and KP, tend to do well as he creates a lot for them. That accumulates "bench" stats, but is really not the real bench stat that we need to look at. Real bench stat is the entire starting unit being out especially Luka and KP. In those situations, i can recall many more blown leads than deficits regained. I can recall two times early in season where bench unit on their own got us back in the game and thats it. When the entire bench unit is in, without Luka, they did not do well at all in general. They tend to explode at times in certain games, but consistently they get outplayed. Bench players that are on the court with Luka and KP tend to do well, and that contributes to stats, but that's not so interesting. The interesting thing is how the bench unit alone performs.

But that is not how it works. No team in the league is running all starters or all bench lineups. Bench also doesn´t exclusively play vs bench. The Mavs only have to players averaging 30+ (starter minutes), 3 if you include DFS (29min). They have 5 more players averaging 20+ minutes.
If you think that lineups without KP and Doncic are getting blown out I would advise you take a look at lineup data. Overall the team is outscoring opponents without both on the floor and there are multiple lineups without them that have great  +/- numbers.