Yeah dude, that's why you bring the guy back because he's a great locker room guy. He's going to be at the very end of the bench.
Paschall traded to the Jazz
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Ineptimusprime
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Here’s my interpretation. The additions of Butler and Paschall will allow us to load manage. They won’t be primary rotation pieces (unless Butler is just a star) and will be “substitute” rotation pieces for when we load manage Conley and Gay respectively.
jom2003
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ideally you want your end of bench guys to be the ones who figured out SL or G league, not NBA ready yet but possess great potential to become one of your rotation pieces one day. "great in the locker room" is nice to have, but should never be the reason to keep guys around.
He can defend. He looks bad in SL because he's being given the ball too much in the half-court where he has to make a play. He's worth keeping around cuz he's cheap and a good dude.
jom2003
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that's why i said "ideally". Hopefully he figures something out and if Jazz fail to bring in a better project like Tyler Bey, then sure, keep him around for one more year. I doubt he gets any meaningful PT though.
jom2003
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Butler is a combo guard who can see some minutes at the 2. I have high hopes for Forrest and would love to see some Forrest/Butler backcourt combo in those garbage/management minutes.
Paschall was benched and completely removed from the rotation....I don't know what to tell you. The Warriors were playing important, competitive games and he they made the decision that he was not good enough to play minutes. This wasn't a deep team, it was a team dying for rotation players and he couldn't make it on the floor even with Oubre and Wiseman injured.
I also never said Paschall was going to play a major role. I said the opposite, implying that the expectation should be that he's an end of the bench player. I also never said Brantley is proven. Once again, literally said the opposite and said he has done nothing in this league.
Warriors moved Paschall because they just drafted Kuminga to take his role. Paschall is still a young player. It might be worth asking him to play a bit in LV Summer League.
They also didn't see him as a rotation player, as evident by benching him during the most important stretch of the season.
I agree, Paschall still needs to improve and establish himself in this league. I think he should play in Vegas.
Paschall might really pop on offense, especially if he's playing as the 5 with a spaced floor. I think people have compared him to Tucker, Draymond, and Millsap because of the body type, but I think he's much more like Harrell. Harrell is better on the boards and more relentless at the basket, but Paschall has a nice pull up game. HH always talks about smaller guys who can thrive once they turn into a C and Paschall really has that skillset offensively.
He'll have to cut out the heavy iso stuff for sure. One of the reasons he was benched is because he failed to adapt to a team role. Hopefully his benching and trade will serve as wake up calls. But the biggest question is obviously his defense. The Jazz coaching staff worked some magic with Niang and turned him into a passable defender. Hopefully they can do the same with Paschall who has much better physical tools.
He'll have to cut out the heavy iso stuff for sure. One of the reasons he was benched is because he failed to adapt to a team role. Hopefully his benching and trade will serve as wake up calls. But the biggest question is obviously his defense. The Jazz coaching staff worked some magic with Niang and turned him into a passable defender. Hopefully they can do the same with Paschall who has much better physical tools.
jom2003
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Warriors actually had a much deeper team than us last season. Paschall's 17mpg was only good for 11th best in Warriors rotation, but 8th best for the jazz .
We were 1st seed only because of the brilliance of our top eight guys. Our end of bench rotation had been nothing but hot garbage all season. Guys like Brantley or Oni would not ever see the floor had they played for the Warriors last year. Fighting for minutes against Draymond/Looney/Wiseman/Wiggins/Oubre, it's kinda a miracle that Paschall survived for as long as he had(Kerr really loved those strange tiny lineups featuring Wiggins at the 4). He's playing only behind Bogey and Gay here so I expect him to get even more opportunities now that he's with the Jazz.
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