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I find it interesting that of the players with a lot of minutes and a lot points and a lot of shots taken, that if you look at Terry's line, that he is by far the only one associated with a horrible defense. Harris and Diop are the best. Look at the column titled "Def" for points the defense scores when that player is on the court.
On the other side of the coin, look and notice that Harris and Dirk are tied for the best offensive production for the team when they are on the court.
Dirk, Diop, JHo, and Harris have the best numbers for the players who are playing heavy minutes. There is quite a drop off with Terry and it appears that it is due to his defensive liability. Note the same thing for Dampier although his minutes are too low to draw any type of conclusion whatsoever.
Anyway, by these numbers it would appear that the Mavs are most in search for a SG or SF (depending on which way JHo is lined up at any given time). With these limited numbers (early in the season), the leading guys by numbers alone (showing favorable outcomes when they are on the court versus off the court) are Terry, Barea, and Jones. Although Stack and Bass are getting minutes, they don't look like they are favorable to the team's outcome. But, numbers of this nature are likely misleading this early in the season.
The main thing that jumped out to me was how much worse our team defense is when Terry or Dampier is in the game. I'll pardon Dampier due to the high possibility of statistical error with his limited minutes this season so far. Bass and Hassel are looking poor as to team defense also while Jones looks quite good for team defense.
The other interesting finding here is that it appears Harris is the most important player as to the effect of him being on the floor versus off the floor. That is interesting since he is not anywhere near the top 5 players for total minutes played for the year...