Big Move for Mavs Center Dwight Powell?

This offseason, the Dallas Mavericks skilled quite a lot of adjustments. The workforce began the summer time by buying and selling for Houston Rockets large man Christian Wooden. 

Per week later, Dallas misplaced its second-best participant Jalen Brunson for principally nothing. 

However might one of many Mavs’ key adjustments lie at middle? 

In July, the workforce signed JaVale McGee to a three-year contract, with the intent of being the starter. 

On ESPN, coach Jason Kidd introduced that with Brunson gone, Dallas was “going to be an even bigger workforce,” and that their “beginning 5 goes to be large with JaVale beginning on the middle.”

So what does this imply for Dwight Powell? Might he excel off the bench? 

Mavs.com reporter Eddie Sefko solutions the latter. 

“He’s been efficient coming off the bench,” Sefko wrote. “In 2018-19, when he averaged 10.6 factors and 5.3 rebounds in 21 minutes per recreation, he got here off the bench in 55 of the 77 video games by which he appeared.”

In the course of the 2017-2018 season, Powell supplied high quality minutes off the bench. In 55 video games, he averaged 8.5 factors and 5.6 rebounds, on 59.3-percent taking pictures. 

Some key attributes embody his means to take “arduous knock photographs to the face,” and “willingness to stay his nostril into the grinder defensively and roll arduous to the basket on offense,” in accordance with Sefko. 

In pick-and-roll performs final season, Powell shot 71.2 p.c and scored 2.8 factors per possession. His means to maneuver off screens with Luka Doncic helped create quite a lot of scoring alternatives. 

“He has everyone’s respect in terms of placing within the work and with the ability to get essentially the most out of his talents,” Sefko wrote. “The hope is that he can switch these expertise into being an energizer off the bench.” 

With Tim Hardaway Jr., Maxi Kleber and Josh Inexperienced already probably coming off the bench, Powell may very well be one other worthwhile piece. 

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