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Start Mitchell at the Point.

Everyone can say all the words... here is the facts... both of the core lineups with DM at the pg have a net rating of +30.2 and +27.5 (starters with Jae and starters with Favs). Not a huge sample size and the competition has been bad... but it has worked really frickin well to date.

It could be a fluke or hot shooting or whatever... but it's dumb to completely dismiss how successful it has been. Ricky could come back and maybe we still kill it... last year the starters with Jae was +29.2 (was during the second half surge obviously).

I want to see it against better teams and over more minutes... but we are going into an offseason where we need to make hard choices. If we are just as good with Royce next to DM as we are with Ricky then that gives us freedom to improve in other places. Ricky may not cost a ton to retain... but he certainly gets more that Royce's minimum salary.
 
Everyone knows I'm on team DMPG. But I suspect our recent successes are more about the competition. We'll find out soon enough once our PGs are back.
 
Alfalfa said:
Everyone knows I'm on team DMPG. But I suspect our recent successes are more about the competition. We'll find out soon enough once our PGs are back.
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I am team DMPG as well, but it is more like team DM as primary creator with the ball and lets keep our minds open to what type of players fit with him.

Our next move could be to get a guy like OP jr. or Tobias or Brogdon or... and our best option may be DM as the pg. Maybe there is a big pg that comes and DM is a two... I just thing he looks more like a pg to me and he's going to be the primary playmaker anyway. We don't get to handpick the next guy to come in... we are kind of limited to whatever comes through the door or says yes. A guy who doesn't need the ball to be successful may fit better than someone who is good with it but has limited offball value.

I think we have a better chance at finding wing talent that fits than a pg with the skills and attributes we want next to him. He has thrived in the role against some bottom feeders, but they are still nba teams so let's not completely dismiss it.
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
I am team DMPG as well, but it is more like team DM as primary creator with the ball and lets keep our minds open to what type of players fit with him.

Our next move could be to get a guy like OP jr. or Tobias or Brogdon or... and our best option may be DM as the pg. Maybe there is a big pg that comes and DM is a two... I just thing he looks more like a pg to me and he's going to be the primary playmaker anyway. We don't get to handpick the next guy to come in... we are kind of limited to whatever comes through the door or says yes. A guy who doesn't need the ball to be successful may fit better than someone who is good with it but has limited offball value.

I think we have a better chance at finding wing talent that fits than a pg with the skills and attributes we want next to him. He has thrived in the role against some bottom feeders, but they are still nba teams so let's not completely dismiss it.
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It's too bad we can't get someone like Beal. I'd much rather have DM-Beal backcourt with Gobert-Favors than Gobert-OPJr frontcourt with Exum-DM backcourt.
 
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