2021-2022 ROSTER TALK: [ARCHIVED]

[KillerLeft]

If I'm underselling the defensive delta, I'd say you are underselling the shooting delta.  Let Buddy get open looks from Luka and let's hear that nylon pop.  In truth, it seems like a neutral move that you'd make because THJ got hurt.  I'd be okay throwing in Josh and a SRP.  Josh has played better but I'm far from being sold on him as anything more than a project.

This is all fair. 

I think I'm leaning the other way, mostly because I just don't think this team uses shooters the same way Carlisle's team did. I just didn't see them running Hardaway around screens before the catch like in years past, so I'm not sure what value there truly is in getting a guy like Hield who is qualified for a role like that but would be relegated to a standstill catch-and-shoot spacing role. 

I honestly think you can find guys to do that well enough who are also defenders. 

And maybe it's naive of me, but I'm starting to buy-in on this "defense first" thing they have going. I'm kind of ok with just letting Green and Ntilikina continue to duke it out for the 4th guard minutes. You're basically only going to play three of them in the playoffs, anyway. If one of those three gets hurt, I suppose I'd rue that statement, but something tells me Hield wouldn't be thrilled to come here and be the 4th guard, which is the role I believe he'd get.