The only thing I know about Dorian “Mode” Finney-Smith is that he has been among the least productive starters in the league, at least in terms of raw point totals. He’s averaging four points per game right now, and that’s including this eleven-point outlier game. Off the top of my head, only Pascal Siakam approaches such levels of offensive futility from a starter.
Most fans outside of Dallas probably don’t even realize that some guy with two last names has started eleven of the last thirteen for the Mavs. If you’re weren’t looking really hard at the box-scores you would miss it because his regular 4/3/0 statline with three fouls certainly wasn’t going to draw in your eyeballs. But now the Dorian Mode has scored eleven points and he is grabbing hold of your eyeballs and pointing them towards his highlight video. All his previous low-scoring outings are forgotten in the past. This is the new Finney-Smith. The one who sometimes scores an amount of points that cause you to think maybe he could stick around in the league.