BeiBeau wrote:41Dirk41 wrote:BeiBeau wrote:In games where Dallas has won or tied the rebounding battle this season they are 18-6. Which is a 62 win pace.
Those 6 losses are to elite teams as well, Celtics, Buck twice, Pelicans, Kings, and T-Wolves.
Dallas is 14-17 in games where they have lost the rebounding battle which is a 37 win pace.
And all of the worst loses of the season are in those 17 games.
Why did Dallas lose to a Pelicans team who sat Zion and BI? Pelicans out rebounded us by 10. Why did we turn around and beat them the next game when they had their stars back? We won the rebounding battle by 5. Why did Dallas lose to a Cavs team without Mitchell, Garland, or Mobley this season? Sure Kyrie was out, sure we shot like **** from 3, but we also got out rebounded by 20.
In basketball you can control certain things, effort on defense, shot selection(looking at you Tim), boxing out and grabbing rebounds. You cannot always control your shooting percentage on any given night though. Great teams are great because they do the little things.
All that to say thing adding Gafford, the best rebounder on the team, and replacing Grant Williams with PJ who is twice as good of a rebounder is huge. It gives Dallas more size to fight on the boards and as Gafford says, take out the garbage.
That's the point.
After the TDL trades we can stay in the game despite our 3s don't fall and win the game in 4th with Luka and Kyrie.
Gafford energy is contagious and PJ is an underrated defender for what i've seen in those games.
They played in lose teams all career, we will see if they fit in a winning squad with maybe limited minutes and possessions.
For sure Luka is very happy to having them
G-Will is not bad as he played last games here, he is the classic MLE guy so just a hustler role player with some good shooting games sometimes (he played great with the Hornets lately) but Kidd played him backup C.
His departure was good for both parts.
Nekias Duncan from the Dunker’s Spot said he heard PJ Washington was so excited to get traded to a winning team that he left the restaurant he was at when he found out.
Defense takes energy, it cost your body, and requires consistent effort and focus. If a team you play on is gonna win 20 games whether you play good defense or not why would you?
You are right but it's not so easy that transaction... He could be our Gordon (Aaron has more talent, he was a 18-8 guy in Orlando).
It's all in PJ hands (and head) now.