He's got the best defensive tools. He played the best defense in the pre-season. The Jazz called him their best defender.
I would say to curb your expectations. We have a lot of movement we that bench group and some guys we want to see, so while the right move might be to add to that stable I can see our front office and coaching staff thinking there are too many moving parts... if this was mid season I think it’d have a better chance but I think there would be more suitors too. He will be top of the list for whatever contender has an injury or realizes they are a player short... which I know, that’s why you get out in front of it.
Well said and probably spot on
Yeah, I don't have any expectation that there's any likelihood that we'd grab him. However, to be fair, I also didn't have that kind of expectation with Shaq, either, as it's a huge anomaly for a team to go out and get the guy you actually like. And I do believe that seeing glimmers of hope from end of the bench guys would give them pause. If you were to take a gigantic magnifying glass to that logic, you'd see a scenario where you don't bring in the known quantity (DWill) to serve a legitimate need (needing a backup PG, especially with Hill's health while running into your first playoff in a long time) and you pass on this opportunity because you want to make sure nobody gets in the way of Exum's development. But then you end up playing Shelvin Mack instead.
Just poking around for a few minutes, it seems that the Wolves may be jettisoning RJH in hopes/expectation that PJ Tucker shakes loose from the Houston situation (ie when/if Harden traded). No idea if that's accurate ore a realistic hope on their part.
Yeah... Imma go ahead and keep RHJ and release someone else... deal with PJ Tucker later if I am the Wolves.
I think PJ Tucker has been able to look good in a situation that allows his role to shine more than it would elsewhere. I think the next team to obtain Tucker may be disappointed.
Layman was pretty good for Minny before he got injured. He looked good in preseason as well in terms of health. They may like him better than RHJ.
I guess... who knows. I do think half of Minny's roster would get called out by Nurse for effort issues including their "star" players. Raps play about as hard as any team I've ever watched.
I’ve repeatedly asked him for evidence. None ever arrives.
This is a bit of a 'content to take 3rd place' attitude. Methinks if you can make your team better you do it. And I think he would make the team better.
I'd like to believe this, but I don't know why it's been something that's come out only recently. He played 23 games in G_League and averaged 30 minutes per game. Though we may have referred to Oni as possibly being 3&D (even though his three isn't something great) before, up until we hadn't made any play for perimeter D (before signing Shaq) and when it looked like this was the roster then all the sudden the PR spin became Oni our best defender, there really had been zero talk of this before. Nobody talked about him being that good of a defender. Just a competent one, perhaps. Even our resident Stars watcher (Cy.. I guess you could say HT, too, but this will further my point)... none of those guys, to my recollection, ever spoke this glowingly about him (to the extent that he's out best defender, or that he's better than just being a good defender but perhaps a great one). We get highlights of our G League guys thinking things such as Morgan or Brantley can hit the three ball, or that JWF is looking really good. Where was all the "Oni defensive monster" highlights, discussion, or talk about all this fire? That's something I would hope Cy would weigh in on because he watched all the Stars games, but I don't ever remember him talking about this, and he still doesn't reference Stars play for any basis of defensive prowess.
I'm with you. I would want to see him regardless of the comments that came out of the organization about him being the best perimeter defender (side note... maybe that comment lights a fire under Royce's ***). That comment was 100% PR spin. I believe the want to see him play and hope he can be good on that end... I'd also like to see that. That particular comment comes from Chapter 13 of DL's book about GMing entitled "Hand Pads and Hand Shakes". Chapter 13 is "The Best New Additions are Sometime the Additions You Always Had". He outlines how if you didn't fill a need in the offseason you can just say player X who was hurt or didn't play actually fills that need.
Yes but Nurse never had to coach a KAT or Wiggins. He was quite lucky for a first year coach because they already had leaders in Kyle Lowry and Masai Ujiri. No telling if his first year was with the Suns or Minny.
For sure... was just highlighting that a guy could look like he was dogging it in Toronto and that might look like Mr. Hustle in Minny.
Who is RJH?
The guy from the OP.
