ROSTER TALK: Mavs favs for Vogel if no HC job exists. Kyrie handshake deal?

[mvossman]

I'm kind of confused at all the Dinwiddie slander I've seen on the board lately.  Of all the things I'm concerned about with this roster he's pretty far down on the list.  He's simply playing his role, be a second ball handler and space the floor when he's with Luka and attack the basket when he's with the second unit.  He's the only dude on the roster not named Luka who can do these things and he's doing them fine in my opinion.  Do I hate the fact that he closes out every single three point shot like an insane person? Yes, but we know that's not in his game.  

There are so many people on this roster playing lower than their expectations, it feels odd to single out someone who (I feel) is playing to right about the level I expected in his role.  Is he better suited as a pure 6th man? Sure, but it's not his fault we can't use him that way so he's doing the best he can in the role he's given.  If his catch and shoot numbers drop we might have a problem but I don't see anything to expect a huge change there.

I think a lot of it has to do with this boards sometimes over reliance on on/off numbers.  Kam just posted a graphic on another thread showing he has the worst on/off on the team.  Worse than McGee.  My eye test tells me he is playing well on offense and not any worse on defense than most of the other wings not named Green.  Advanced stats suggest he has been the second best player on the team (overtaking Wood recently).

Personally I think the biggest issues on this team are:

Our "top" 3&D guys have not been playing well on either side of the ball (Green has been better than all of them)
Our 3rd creator spot has been filled by Timmy and he has been terrible
Any minute McGee plays