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Originally posted by: LRB

Gee Murph you're a really smart guy, I thought you'd know this one already. But let's just use last years numbers and Say Michael Finely and Walker are traded which are the least stat loss for the mavs.


Mavs gain 6.9 points from Wallace and loose 19.3 pts from Fin and 20.5 points from Walker. That equals a negative 32.9 points a game.

Now Mavs gain 15.4 rebounds per game from Wallace but loose 5.8 rebounds from Fin and 7.2 rebounds from Walker. That equals a positive 2.4 rebounds per game.

Let's say that we get 2.4 more possesion each game and score 3pts on each possesion. That gives us 7.2 points per game more. But since we were at -32.9 we're still down 25.7 points.

Are you really assuming that Walker or Finley or going to have the same averages this season? That seems unlikely at best. You can't just throw those numbers around in a vacuum. If the Mavs don't have Finley or Walker, Nash, Dirk and Jamison would all score more. The offensive philosophy wouldn't change for the Mavs with the addition of Wallace, and considering that the Mavs haven't been getting too many points out of the C position the last two years, I don't think you can assume that the per game scoring would decrease drastically.