lilfishi22 wrote:Saberestar wrote:
Teams can't put a big on him and expect for good results anymore. Dunn is a very good pick&roll partner for Booker and he reminds me of Marion in these type of plays. His agility and improved decision making in those ghost screens or fast screens makes him a tough cover for any defense.
Dunn has real potential in that short roll. I know that was an ATO play so it's largely orchestrated but I've seen Dunn make some really crisp clean short passes on the roll on plays which were not necessarily called. This season he's already almost doubled his assist rate and already has 20% of the total assists he's had last season and he's only game 7.
Just from an offensive perspective as well, he's already seen a massive leap even without a significant improvement in his 3PT%. Last season he was shooting like 31.1% from beyond the arc and has improved slightly to 32% but he's reduced the number of shots from the 3 while taking more 2's and hitting a pretty ridiculous 70% of those 2P%. Even Williams, our big man, is just under 60%. Dunn's now above 60% for his True Shooting which is well above league average now. And his improvement on the offensive end is also shown in his advance stats. He's now just below 0 in Offensive BPM (4th on the team) where last season he was -2.9.
Yeah, he is proving that he has improved his overall game with tons of work this off-season.
In the summer The Timeline's guys were talking about what could be a realistic nice stat for Dunn this new season and 10 ppg with solid improvement in his percentages was their take...and you know what, he is exactly averaging 10 points shooting 53/32/67.
And his defense is better than last year too, for now he is "just" averaging 0.9 steals and 0.9 blocks but I expect him to average 3 stocks at some pointmof the season...he is that great on defense.
