I haven’t yet heard any murmurings about Spencer Dinwiddie being a candidate for 6MOY of the Year this season. As always, that doesn’t mean that the murmurings aren’t there, but if they are, they must be pretty soft, because I’m hearing all sorts of murmurings all the time. It’s actually quite annoying, I’ll just be sitting there thinking about nothing or maybe naked female chests, and the murmuring will pop in uninterrupted “Tim Hardaway and Allonzo Trier got in a screaming match in the locker room and both have demanded a trade” or “Timofey Mozgov is recruiting LeBron James to Orlando”. Stuff like that. At all hours.
But when it comes to Dinwiddie being the best bench player in the league, nada. Zilch. Zippo. 17 and 5 aren’t insane numbers, when we’re used to Lou Williams doing all his chucky stuff, but that’s the thing with Dinwiddie. He likes to shoot, a lot, but he’s not a “chucker”. His assists are down and his turnovers up, but that’s what comes with increased scoring sometimes.
He has started 4 games, and Brooklyn has lost all of them. I don’t know if that helps or hurts his case. On one hand, it means that he’s definitely a legit bench player and not a starter who just happens to be coming off the bench. Okay, maybe it doesn’t mean that, but still. On the other hand, it’s not a good look to apparently sabotage your team whenever injuries cause you to start. So I don’t know.