What Will They Do? (#13 Mike Dunleavy)

[count55]

This is going to be the thirteenth in our series of projections and discussions about all of our players this year. Essentially, we'll go through all 15 Pacers (I'm excluding Droopy) and talk about our expectations. Each poster will cut and paste form below and fill it out, adding their reasoning at the bottom. The reasoning is the most important, as it will help the conversation.

The first five guys will go up today, and they will be the fringe players. Then will come the rotational players, then we'll get to our key players. If you're looking to do a little research on the guys, I'd suggest BBR as the best statistical site.

So, here we start with:

Mike Dunleavy

Games Played:
Games Lost To Injury:
DNP-CD's:
Minutes per Game:
Points per Game:
Rebounds per Game:
Assists per Game:
FG%:
3FG%:
FT%:
Other Key Stats (can be Steals, Blocks, TO's, A/TO ratio, etc.)

Reasoning/Synopsis: Describe why you think this player will provide these numbers. What will his role be? What's his best-case? What's his worst-case?

Lets get started.

[count55]

Games Played: 79
Games Lost To Injury: 3
DNP-CD's: 0
Minutes per Game: 34.0
Points per Game: 17.5
Rebounds per Game: 4.5
Assists per Game: 2.9
FG%: 47%
3FG%: 40%
FT%: 77%
Other Key Stats: Stls 0.9

While I expect Junior to perform well, I am still projecting a step back from last season's career year. With the addition of Brandon Rush and Jarrett Jack, there's the possibility that he'll see a slight decrease in minutes. Also, as you'll see later, I'm expecting Danny and Troy to become more assertive, which could squeeze his opportunities a little. He certainly could repeat last year's performance, but those are pretty big numbers to peg out for him at this point.

[bballpacen]

Mike Dunleavy

Games Played: 76
Games Lost To Injury: 6
DNP-CD's: 0
Minutes per Game: 34
Points per Game: 18.2
Rebounds per Game: 4.5
Assists per Game: 3.4
FG%: 44
3FG%: 38
FT%: 83
Other Key Stats (can be Steals, Blocks, TO's, A/TO ratio, etc.) none...

Reasoning/Synopsis: Will get plenty of looks being the #2 guy on this team...

[freeman]

Games Played: 82
Games Lost To Injury: 0
DNP-CD's: 0
Minutes per Game: 36
Points per Game: 19.0
Rebounds per Game: 5.5
Assists per Game: 3.0
FG%: 46%
3FG%: 42%
FT%: 82%
Steals per Game: 1.2
Blocks per Game: 0.4

I can see Dunleavy having another good year. He should benefit from the addition of Ford. Maybe we'll see a lot of feeds from Ford and spot-up jumpers from Dunleavy. These two guys could click instantly. Another is that, Obie knows Dunleavy's strengths and weaknesses so the possibility of being a 20ppg player is undeniably within reach.

[huskyfan224]

No way he does as good as he did last year, which was okay. everyone thinks he is so good but he really isn't. we should trade him while his value is high and get solid players and picks. i say he average around 14 ppg this season.