bayliss, the bird / dj comparison is interesting, but it brings up another thought...in the same post by grbh in the articles section, he cited that in the lakers run in 81-82, jamaal wilkes shot the ball over 250 times more than magic and over 100 times more than kareem. that leads me to my question...
there is no doubt that dirk is and should be the #1 option, but is he so far and away the #1 option that we should run 50%, 60%, 70% of the offense thru him??
in sa, it's duncan and that's it, so they have almost no choice to who pop runs the offense thru. but teams like the bucks, lakers, blazers, knicks, etc. have options and don't run their "crunch time" offense thru one guy. that's who we should be comparing the mavs to.
also, guys like iverson, duncan, mcgrady, carter, etc. usually lead the league in shot attempts because they are far and away the leading option on their respective teams.
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