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I do know what you mean… you mean we have enough. Which is a dangerous assumption and a mistake we have made many times already.OK, you got me. You know what I meant. If we don't sign a different player, it's also actively taking a bet on the young players. I believe in Butler/Forrest and would like to give them the best chance to succeed. Signing Dunn would impede their progress. If that's what you have a problem with, I'm guilty. I just felt the same way about those guys as you felt about Doke.
Anderson's 3 point shooting is an outlier, but he did do it. I wouldn't believe he would be a solid 3 point shooter unless he did. If Dunn had a good shooting season on that volume I might believe it too, but he would need to do it first. Anderson has also been really great from mid range too. His assisted amount of 3's is higher than Dunn's, but also fairly low compared to other wings which is another reason why I have confidence in his shot. What if instead of 86% of 3's being assisted it was 98% like Royce?
Needless to say I'm very confident in Anderson and I think his type of defense is more important and his position is more crucial to our success.
no idea what you mean about Doke. I was 1000% against the pick. I think he’s got potential but I feel much better having Whiteside. I actually think the hate has gone way too far there.
Im the number one Butler fan… been on that corner predraft… go check the draft thread if you want. I’m excited about him… think he has a great shot to be playable as a rookie… but playable and effective are different things. We may be fine with him on the court but I think a healthy Dunn is likely more effective than Butler as a rookie… it’s a much safer bet. There is also a potential knee issue and his offseason is not off to a fast start. If he was playing in SL I would feel
Much better saying just rely on Butler.
Forrest is fine but if he hits his highest ceiling I’m not sure that ceiling is higher than the player Dunn has already been. Dunn is like all nba defense type ****. So I get it… we can buy a tomato for a dollar or plant some tomato seeds for some pennies… we may have enough tomatoes to make salsa already but if we get halfway through the process and realize we are short… those seeds ain’t helping much and the whole batch could go to ****.
Say Mike or Joe or JC go out for six weeks… Butler better be really good otherwise we do the same thing we do every year where we burn out one of the other guys during the regular season to stay afloat. The team is deeper now so I feel better about our chances of covering an injury… but we are still thin at guard imo. Huge Butler fan and hopefully we only need him for 25 or so games while we load manage… it would be great if he was up and got that development time but it’s no bueno if we are relying on a rookie or buyout market to fill a need that is created by an injury. Injuries are not unlikely events… you need to plan for them.