I always enjoyed watching Monta with the Warriors but he developed some terrible habits wallowing through the last shitty years of the Cohan era. For all the talent he has he pretty much negates all his positives with his style of play.

If Carlisle can get him back to moving his feet on D and keeping guys in front of him instead of recklessly gambling for steals he could be acceptable on defense. He'll always be undersized but he's scrappy and getting bullied by bigger guards has never been his biggest problem on defense.

Hopefully playing with a legit star like Nowitzki gets him to reduce his role and return to being a complementary piece like he was with the "We Believe" Warriors. At one time he was a pretty efficient scorer when playing off the ball, maybe he can get back to that.

Of course maybe it's too late for him. If he wants to be a star and a number one option he'll always be on losing teams.