Game 55: San Antonio Spurs (11-43) vs. Dallas Mavericks (31-23)

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Comes down to the way people look at the game. Gafford is a boxscore stuffer and put up big numbers in his first three games but they feel somewhat empty because he also has the worst +/- numbers among regular rotation players (excluding garbage time).
Sample size is still super small and I think even the boxscore stuffing can help in certain matchups. Not to mention that he had no time to learn schemes/the playbook. That explains a lot of his issues on the defensive end and should get better with time.

As you said, the sample size is super small.  Advanced stats don't tell us much over so few minutes.

I would argue that box score production is not meaningless in games that you win though.  I think it's less meaningful on bad teams, e.g. Kyle Kuzma.  

Especially, rebounding is really underrated on this board.  We've been a pathetic rebounding team for so long and suddenly we are winning at rebounding.  Gafford is drastically cutting down on 2nd-chance attempts for our opponents.  He's increased our 2nd-chance attempts on offense.  Rebounding is a good thing.  We've managed to win plenty of games without rebounding.  I think we'll win more now that we have a strong rebounder in the rotation.  

He'll be our backup from now on.  He'll have more favorable matchups.  Wemby made him look bad.  Wemby will make everyone look bad until he retires.