Frichuela wrote:Not a fan of Dinwiddie to be honest…I much rather a trade for Derrick White or Lonzo Ball.
His 3 pt shooting percentages are consistently pretty bad…and his D is also subpar
With a pg, more things matter than just 3-point percentage. It's important but it's not the end-all and be all. The problem with Lonzo is that in the halfcourt he's basically only a spot-up shooter. It's tough to have a pg that cannot consistently break down his man. Last year Lonzo averaged only 1.2 ft's a game. At the same time, Dinwiddie averaged 7 ft's a game last year. With Dinwiddie, we can project that he will be able to consistently get to the hole and force the defense to collapse. This will allow us to force defenses to help off of shooters or give up open drives. In 2019-2020, Dinwiddie was 11th in ft's. And to discuss his low 3-point percentage, I would point out that in the 2019-2020 season only 11.1% of his shots were "spot-up". I expect that this will percentage will drastically increase and as a result so will his 3-point percentage. Ideally, you'd have a player that can do it all. Get to the hoop at an elite level and be a knockdown 3-point shooter. In addition, it's very likely that Dinwiddie can improve his 3-point shooting.
White is a better comparison but I would point out that comparing him to Dinwiddie is an inherently unfair comparison. White has never been asked to lead a team. In Dinwiddie's last real year in Brooklyn, he was the first option. In addition, we should point out that Dinwiddie improves consistently unlike White, and that Dinwiddie is a way better playmaker than White. For Dinwiddie's career he has an assist percentage of 30% while White's is 19%.
If you survey who's actually available at pg it's really hard to make the case that Dinwiddie isn't the best realistic option for the Wizards imo. The fit next to Beal is very good. At 6'5 215, we could choose to put Dinwiddie on 2's and have Beal guard 1's. In addition, it is rare to play against teams that have exceptional guards as defenders. By having both guards that are elite at breaking down their man, we greatly improve our overall offensive efficiency. That combined with our ability to space the floor with shooters - Kispert, Caldwell-Pope, Bertans will make it very tough for defenses. If Hachimura and Avdija continue to improve their shooting it will serve to make us that much better. Lastly, Dinwiddie has no problem playing off-ball. This will allow players like Avdija and Rui to take more of an initiating role offensively. If we can successfully add Dinwiddie, this will be the best team we've had in my lifetime. The pieces fit together well and I could see us giving a teams fits. Perhaps the best of all is that we would still maintain the ability to add a max player if they become available.
Lastly, I expect Bradley Beal to ascend into the MVP conversation. Surrounding Beal with 3-point shooting and forcing teams to either help off of shooters to stop Beal or stay home on shooters and leave Beal matched up one-on-one. If Beal can add 3's off the dribble like Lillard/Steph/Trae, I think he will be in the MVP conversation. Also, look for the assist numbers to increase now that ball-dominant Westbrook is gone. I don't think 30/7/5 is out of the question for Beal. We would still have a long way to go to build a championship contender but with how everything fits, the age of our players and the potential to have cap space this is easily the closest we've been to becoming a legit contender since 1980.
