FalseFlagg K
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Lol
Would you rather have us in the playoffs or getting better draft picks?
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Me too.
Also, Burks/Favors trade value might never be higher.
Buy low sell high. I’d love to get a draft pick for Burks right now and turn it into the next Kuzma or Jordan Bell.
Honestly, I just don’t trust Burks, Favors, or Exum to stay healthy.
Remove where he was drafted and his impressive off-the-bounce speed, and I am not even sure he's an NBA player and the statistics bear that out.
I'm not saying to cut him or anything like that, but I am saying I'm not sure he's even worth his QO.
No way. He was too good in summer league/preseason.
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I’ve been watching a lot of nba this past week due to my surgery. A few things are clear:
# 1 There’s a lot of talent out there. The lakers have it stockpiled. When Kuzma isn’t going off, Ingram is. When neither is going off, they have randel and Ball who are great talents already. Look at the rockets, Gordon came off the bench and killed us.
As we’ve seen you don’t have to draft top 5 to get talent. Especially today, where size and position matters little. Find someone who can run or shoot and you can find them a spot, much like how Draymond Green has made a career. 10 years ago he would’ve been dismissed as a tweeter. Not in today’s league, where he can literally be asked to play 1-5 positions. Just like how the jazz play Jingles, Mitchell, Hood, and Burks at the 1-3 without any specific position being set.
If anything, the league playing without any set positions has made drafting a more simplified process. No longer do you need a traditional PG to set up your offense. Just get a tremendous athlete who can tear it up on the P&R and let him do his thing (like Mitchell or Westbrook or Harden or DeRosen or Kyrie or Booker or DLil)
#2 we lack talent. Part of it is due to injuries. But another part is due to a need to rebuild for another year or two. We need to get an AI, Casspi, Gordon, Ginobli, etc who can come off our bench and drop big numbers. I’m not seeing that from Neto or Griffin or whatever else is on our bench. We just need another year to get us some athletes and another shooter or two.
# 1 There’s a lot of talent out there. The lakers have it stockpiled. When Kuzma isn’t going off, Ingram is. When neither is going off, they have randel and Ball who are great talents already. Look at the rockets, Gordon came off the bench and killed us.
As we’ve seen you don’t have to draft top 5 to get talent. Especially today, where size and position matters little. Find someone who can run or shoot and you can find them a spot, much like how Draymond Green has made a career. 10 years ago he would’ve been dismissed as a tweeter. Not in today’s league, where he can literally be asked to play 1-5 positions. Just like how the jazz play Jingles, Mitchell, Hood, and Burks at the 1-3 without any specific position being set.
If anything, the league playing without any set positions has made drafting a more simplified process. No longer do you need a traditional PG to set up your offense. Just get a tremendous athlete who can tear it up on the P&R and let him do his thing (like Mitchell or Westbrook or Harden or DeRosen or Kyrie or Booker or DLil)
#2 we lack talent. Part of it is due to injuries. But another part is due to a need to rebuild for another year or two. We need to get an AI, Casspi, Gordon, Ginobli, etc who can come off our bench and drop big numbers. I’m not seeing that from Neto or Griffin or whatever else is on our bench. We just need another year to get us some athletes and another shooter or two.
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What does Dante do well?
And let’s fece it, he’s now lost 2 seasons due to injury. Is that something we can depend on?
Jazz4ever
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We need to secure talent. At 12 you can get Mikal Bridges or Sexton, picking at 16, it gets a whole lot shadier this year.
Within 1 year we have already lost Hayward, and could lose Hood if someone maxes him. Could also be losing Dante if he signs a 1 year QO, don't consider him a core piece anymore.
Within 1 year we have already lost Hayward, and could lose Hood if someone maxes him. Could also be losing Dante if he signs a 1 year QO, don't consider him a core piece anymore.
Donovan is great, but we need 1 more piece. I'd say draft pick.
Carbon13
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Hes not greatly skilled and I dont think hes a good enough shooter or passer to be on the receiving end of Quins advantage basketball system. Im with you there. But Dante is fast and long enough that he could be a great initiator. Collapsing the D and get everyone moving.
Let's leave Rodney out of this.
Dante absolutely killed it this summer against some good talent. He was Quin's whipping-boy last year and still showed exciting form at times. He's way to unproven to give up on.
2017 Points Leaders
1. Bryn Forbes SAS 21.3
2. Markelle Fultz PHI 20.0
3. Dante Exum UTA 20.0
4. Jayson Tatum BOS 18.7
5. Jaylen Brown BOS 17.5
2017 Rebound Leaders
1. Jaylen Brown BOS 10.5
2. Jayson Tatum BOS 9.7
3. Cory Jefferson SAS 7.3
4. Isaiah Miles PHI 7.0
5. Julian Wright UTA 6.5
2017 Assist Leaders
1. Dante Exum UTA 6.3
2. Larry Drew II PHI 5.0
3. Dejounte Murray SAS 4.5
4. Timothe Luwawu-Cabarrot PHI 4.0
5. Donovan Mitchell UTA 3.3
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His ballhanding, lack of aggression, and inability to stay healthy put into doubt whether he’ll ever be able to collapse an nba defense consistently.
I’m not saying cut him now. What I’m saying is we should plan on moving from him in the next offseason.