(07-01-2024, 08:38 AM)mvossman Wrote: I’m going to give front office credit and assume DJJ was not an option because he wanted to start. Otherwise the Nico plan 1A and 1B is even more bullshit, as well as the report that Marshall was a backup plan.
As somebody already mentioned, he had by far his best year after having his role significantly reduced to 18 minutes a game. That does not bode for his game to scale well with bigger workload.
DJJ had played his way out of the rotation on a mediocre to bad Chicago team before signing his minimum deal here. Fit matters and Naji being a 79% FT shooter makes me think his jump in 3P% wasn't an outlier, but something that he's going to build on with the wide open shots he's going to get in this offense. I haven't seen enough of his play to know how he compares defensively, but there are definitely reasons to be optimistic about Naji's upside as a 3D guy coming off the bench.
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