12-30-2020, 12:12 AM
(12-29-2020, 10:15 PM)StepBackJay Wrote: Yup he sucks just like everyone around here says.
I think it is more helpful to conversation if you don't just lump "everyone" into one pile AND if you don't take a whole collection of nuanced opinions about a guy and make into one oversimplified and misleading word, "sucks."
Here are the issues I have heard from the dissenters on Dipo:
1) He is coming off of one of the single most devastating injuries an athlete can have and if he reinjures that knee he is likely done immediately for his career.
2) He had one AMAZING season. But he has never gotten close to duplicating it (even when healthy).
3) Post injury his performances have not been consistent or all that good.
4) He is demanding a MAX contract.
I and many others have said if he shows he can get back to a star level and the Mavs feel comfortable with the injury risk, then go for it. But if he cannot get back to that consistency then pass.
Look, he is playing pretty solid right now. But it is an incredibly small sample size. If he keeps it up for 30-40 games then I will start being convinced. But for me personally the issue is not primarily his play, but his long term durability coupled with his COST.