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

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DFS in particular is not the same player he was IMO.

For fun, last years first 31 games versus this year.

PTS:  10.16, 8.39
FGA: 8.4, 7.5
FG%: 44.2, 40
3PA: 5.1, 5.4
3P%: 36.7, .34.5
FTA:  1.19, .8
FT%:  67.5, .64
ORB:  1.64, 1.41
DRB:  3, 2.6
TRB:  4.67, 4
AST:  1.93, 1.16
STL:  1.38, .97
BLK:  .52, .54
TOV:  .96, .93
PF:  2.3, 1.8
+/-:  -9, +16

His numbers are mostly down this year with a few being the same.  One less FGA but that isn't enough to offset the scoring delta.  The bright side is that his fouls haven't gone way up and I think if he'd fallen off a cliff athletically, he'd be racking up more fouls.  Kind of surprised his turnovers aren't higher as he seems to be trying to make more plays this year and his passing can be an adventure.  On the flip side, he does seem willing to dribble the ball more and that makes the drop in FTA even more confounding.  It's his worst 3P% since his sophomore season.  Some of that can be written off as a shooting slump and he can improve those shooting splits pretty easily.  Most concerning would be his steal numbers.  Funniest stat is the +/-.

I almost want to do the same for Reggie.  Maybe Kidd giving Reggie/Dorian the Thibbs treatment and the long playoff run wore some tread off the tires.