foucault87
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I was in fact imaging things. Been a long season.Here's the game log for Garland. I think you might be imagining things. https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/g/garlada01/gamelog/2022
He's missed 15 games. We lost 7. Those wins came against Atlanta (3rd game of the season), Indy (four times), the Pelicans, the Wizards, and the Hornets (where we got very lucky). There was no stretch where we were beating good teams, let alone blowing them out, without Garland. We lost to Charlotte, the Wizards (badly), the Pelicans, Atlanta, the Rockets, the Pistons, and the Wolves without Garland. Almost all of those are loses against bad teams.
With Sexton, if he's shooting from outside and making his shots, he'll help. If he's driving on 75% of his possessions, then it's going to look a like a slightly better version of LeVert on offense and worse version of LeVert on defense.
But the reality is that with Rubio, Allen, Mobley, and Garland, we were a .600 team during the tough part of our schedule even without Sexton.
Agreed with Sexton. I think the other underrated aspect of him, which is harder to quantify, is that he lets us rest Garland more. Garland was insanely efficient when we had the double PG backcourt running but he has struggled to scale the efficiency with volume. Sexton lets you keep that volume down which in the end lets you maximize both guys.