dckingsfan wrote:Not all the hyperbola around a few games - especially when we are losing during those games. You are trying to make a case that Deni does better when he is the featured player (yes, most players will have better numbers). But you haven't made the case that the team is better much less far better.
You are the one who's making hyperbolas...why did you choose 9 games? Kuzma and Beal played during some of those games, I'm still not hearing an explanation why you suddenly chose 9 games, what does "featured Deni more in the offense" means? did you explained that? no, why are you ignoring Deni's 13 games streak after Rui's trade? 13 games + 5 now are 18 games, these are not "a few games", that's a 1/4 of the season.
dckingsfan wrote:Again, the questions are:
Says who? you're not listening to what I'm saying, 3 out of 4 of those questions are not relevant to the claims I've made.
I did not claimed Deni needs to be the 1st or 2nd option, I did not claimed he needs to be the star of the team, I didn't claimed the team has won more with him getting more ball time, I'm getting tired of repeating that, either you don't read what I'm writing or you're intentionally ignoring it, I've said many times, the only things I claimed were:
1. Deni plays much better when he's not worried about being replaced and when the ball move more on offense, and as we've seen in both of his stretches, better for him means a completely different kind of player, and in-spite of what you're saying not all players will become a 15-5-5 and above players when they get to handle the ball more.
2. If Deni should be part of the team's future, the team needs to know how to incorporate him in the offense, no it's not all on him, not all young players can improve without the room to make mistakes, and he's clearly one of those players, other teams do rebuilding and usually let a lot more freedom to their top 10 picks, the Wiz decided they want to compete, but their star players are simply not good enough for that, so both they and Deni are stuck in the middle, they don't really compete but they also don't develop their young players.
I don't and never claimed the Wizards won more when Deni had higher usage, you can't look at a young player's stats and say "oh, when he's playing we're loosing, so let's not play him", developing young players is a process, putting everything on Deni and saying he needs to improve and then he'll get the ball more is ridiculous, Deni almost not getting the ball at all, if Casspi got a 15.7% usage in a championship team with 6 All-Stars then there's no reason Deni shouldn't get more than that on the current Wizards in his 3rd year when all of the "big 3" are playing, he doesn't and that's where the problem is, not his 3 pt percentages, he's shooting 47% in the last 5 games with 10/21 in 5 games, that's excellent, does it mean if we were in the middle of the season and tomorrow Beal and Kuzma would've played something would have been different? no, the team would have played exactly the same, no ball movement, no team play, that's not on Deni, that's on Wes, Beal, Kuzma and Tommy.
dckingsfan wrote:Terrific that his assists went up during this period of being the primary ball handler and although his TOs are up, it is still a good trend. But he isn't a 2:1 guy yet. I think it would be nuts for Wes to have the offense not run through Porzingis and Beal if they are on the court. That relegates Deni back to a 3rd option - then he needs to hit the 3 to spread the floor - something he can't do yet.
All of his stats went up significantly, 18.4 pts, 9.6 reb, 5.4 ast are good enough stats to justify those TOs, but who asked for the offense will not run through Porzingis and Beal? show me where I asked for that.
dckingsfan wrote: Deni isn't in Wes' doghouse.
I'm seriously starting to think you don't read what I'm writing, I referenced that in a previous comment, re-read it.