9 deep is where it’s at, IMO, stealing time for Kirk/Hicks when useful (e.g., end of first half to avoid foul trouble). I think he definitely wants to play a deep team, some comments from the players like “we understand that our depth is our strength” reflects this. He’s also pretty strategically trying out different combinations.
About Mav, he’s a real streaky 3-point shooter, but honestly that describes all of our guards/wings except for Henderson thus far. Mav has more value than is obvious; can exploit matchups, now a nice in-between game, and has good size/BBIQ (except for occasional bonehead foul) combination. glue guy? something like that.
