TDL Archived: The 2nd Rnd Pick Yankee Swap

[mvossman]

Hmmm, this basically says THJ is the 3rd guard/ball handler. Wonder if Kidd saw enough from him in practice to think he’ll bandaid fine til his value goes up and we trade him for the right piece. At least enough to not make the other guard a top priority.


I myself haven’t seen enough from him to suggest that, but I guess, who am I? 

So the guard rotation would be Luka, SD and THJ with Luka and SD starting but after that, one of them is on the court with THJ at all times. I honestly like that more than THJ as a Bullock/DFS replacement (then Hardy/Dorsey steps in for injury/rest games for the 3). Green, Frank and Maxi/Wood coming in for those two makes the defensive drop off much less. Adding a more surely capable wing to supplant Green or Frank would be better, unless they take a large leap this year.

Big rotation of McGee/Wood/Maxi/Bertans/Powell with Powell and Bertans playing the rest/injury insurance role I think is set, unless we can use Powell/Bertans to get us that wing at some point (if the younguns don’t make the necessary leap). McGee starts with Wood and Maxi backing up the 4 and 5 spots.

This is mostly how I see it as well.  There will generally be 2 of Luka/Din/THJ on the court.  The 3 spot will generally be Bullock and Dorian (who will play more 3 with two bigs).  The 5 and 4 spot will generally be McGee/Dorian or Maxi/Wood  There will probably be some McGee/Wood or Wood/Dorian but I think those first two will be by far the most common.  My understanding is that they are planning on bringing Wood off the bench, at least to start, and I think a big part of that is to pair him with Maxi.  Regardless of who is starting, I'm guessing the finishing lineup will be Maxi/Wood.

That would be the 7 man group for the playoffs.  The main backups after that are Powell/Bertans/Green/Frank.  They are really missing a guy the equivalent of those guys for backup point.  Dragic would have been perfect, but I can see where it would be hard to get him regular minutes thus the "cheerleading" comment.