Superbone wrote:Post by Superbone » Wed May 18, 2016 10:43 pm
First run at getting Nash more involved.
I was thinking the same thing.
Marty [Mori Chu] wrote:Post by Marty [Mori Chu] » Mon May 16, 2016 6:55 am
Like what Cap said, I guess I don't care as much who starts/finishes games, more about who gets how many minutes. If they find 25-30 minutes for Booker every night, I'm content.
I am with Cap and Mori on this as well if Booker gets the minutes it doesn't matter to me.
I do think tho that if we trade Knight we should really look at doing it in relation to our draft picks. For instance if we trade Knight and Price, to me, it would make sense to draft Dunn. If we tried something like in the other order. Draft Dunn and then look for a trade for Knight and Price then other teams will try and leverage our history of public player office relationships problems against us. They will be looking for the disgruntled player discount. I think that if we cant find a draft day or before agreed on trade for Knight then drafting Dunn would be a mistake.
I would also not be apposed to moving Bledsoe instead of Knight if it were to get us the appropriate return.
But I don't think we would get value out of him that would make this worthwhile because he is coming back from injury and as long as he is healthy I think he brings us more value then what we could get for him.
My hope is that Eric still has a chance to be an All Star and the ability to become more then an above average defender.
He needs to work on his early offense distribution. I think there are others that will agree with me that sometimes it seems like Eric spends the first 10 seconds of the shot clock getting ready to do something which allows the opposing defenses to get ready to defend said something. He is still young although his his knee history somewhat negates the value in that. With Eric going down last year are best bet is to keep him and that leads me back to moving Knight.
Alex Len had a few flashes this year of how well he can play. When Len is on fire he is impressive the problem is it does not happen enough. I am holding on to the fact that big men take time and when I look at the league Len's career tracking reminds me of LaMarcus Aldridge.
Alex has 189 regular season games under his belt.
That would put him around 50 games into his 3 season if not for injuries.
Aldridge was at 189 games played about halfway through 08-09 season.
By the end of that season Aldridge was averaging over 37 minutes a game.
Alex averaged over 23 this season that's a playing time difference of 14 min per game.
08-09 Aldridge scored .49 points per min 15-16 Len scored .39 points per min Advantage Aldridge for points.
08-09 Aldridge rebounded .20 boards per min 15-16 Len rebounded .33 boards per min Advantage Len on boards.
08-09 Aldridge blocked .027 shots per min 15-16 Len blocked .034 shots per min Advantage Len on blocks.
08-09 Aldridge stole .027 steals per min 15-16 Len stole ..021 steals per min Advantage Aldridge on steals.
I am not at all saying or trying to support that Len is as good a Aldridge. The only reason I picked Aldridge is because I seem to remember that he took sometime to really get the attention as being the star he is now.
I think that if Len can 1 secure the starting role and keep it this season, 2 get his averages up to the level they were at in March, and 3 stay healthy he has a shot at becoming a valuable player for us.
I would not be apposed to trading him in the event that we pick up someone like Okafor, or Whiteside Len needs 30 min a game to realize his potential.
I really like Warren as a piece of the puzzle. I am not sure if he will ever be a starter for us unless he really worked on his defense and even then I am not sure he has the quickness he needs to be able to guard above average NBA 3s. I do think that he could finish many games for us as a closer. If he does somehow become a 2 way player he could be a lot like the Matrix (minus the athleticism) was for us. We were able to get 20 points out of Marion without running any plays for him and typically we had him on their best player for defense. I think that is probably the ceiling for him. If he does not gain the defensive skills I think he can still be a Eddie House type spark plug off the bench that can put up 16 points before you realized what happened. I think his potential still outweighs his value in a trade for us.
I think that if we can not get value in a trade using 28 and 34 picks that using each for a different big to stash would not be a dumb thing to do. There is also the chance someone drops.
