2021-2022 ROSTER TALK: [ARCHIVED]

[cow]

I think the trap a lot of us fall is thinking this team might be one player when in reality we are much further away.  

-We got away with Powell in the first round but he might be unplayable.  If you want to keep him beyond his contract, he needs to move into the Bobi role.
-We gave Maxi heavy minutes last night and his body typically doesn't hold up to that workload.  He's a rotational bench piece but a really valuable one.
-We rolled out Bertans and both series.  Utah failed to exploit it consistently and Phoenix attacked him right away.  If we can't run sets to get him looks consistently, he's unplayable.
-Josh Green's progress from the regular season seems to have vanished save for one game versus Utah.  He certainly doesn't seem to have taken confidence from that.  
-Dinwiddie regular season versus Dinwiddie in the playoffs is concerning.  He's your bench guy so that's mostly okay, I guess.
-We also gave  Burke and Frank some desperation minutes.  
-I'm going to withhold judgement on Jalen until the series is over.  As is often with him, I have no idea what you should pay him.  It's probably going to be too much and we are all going to need to be happy with that.
-My guess Luka's improved defense is going to get exposed as overstated this series.

Our rotation feels light.  Maybe that gets solved with a healthy THJ, but it honestly doesn't feel like we've skipped a beat with him out of the lineup.  It's very KP'ish.  

And I get the idea that you need to start somewhere, but is Gobert at 38-46m per year that place to start?  That type of money needs to be a Batman or a Robin and not someone you consider taking off the floor.  Is Luka, Jalen, Gobert a championship core?  You still need a big to that rotation for injury protection.  You still need the Robin to Luka's Batman.  You still need to upgrade minutes Bertans and Green are giving you.  

I guess that's a long way of saying we are a good three pieces away and not a lot of ways to get there.