special1 wrote:
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2014-15:
DD pre-injury: 49% TS%, 13% AST%, 8.3% TOV%, 29% USG%
DD post-injury: 51% TS%, 19% AST%, 9.2% TOV%, 29% USG%
Like, his passing improved, though his turnovers went up as well, but otherwise he was posting a similarly useless offensive season all year long.
But every player has all sorts of off-season commitments. JV plays for his national team every year. DD had a bad year. It's not a big deal, because he bounced back and made dramatic improvements over even his better prior season. Just like his single year (partial year, really) of improvement the year before was great, but not a significant shift in his game so much as in the pieces around him and his opportunity. His real leap, within a system that supported his best use, came over the past two years where he shifted from borderline all-star, volume producer, to legitimate 2nd piece on a very good team, purely because he made material changes to his game.
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