(08-11-2022, 04:44 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: This has crossed my mind several times over the off-season, but it doesn't lead me to "Hardaway is the 3rd creator." More like "they'll only roll with two creators." Hardaway IS better suited to play off-guard than he is the 3, so it's not crazy, it just means they wouldn't have two creators on the floor at all times this time around.
My issue isn't with that, because that's how most teams operate. But, Dinwiddie is an injury concern, and since Dragic didn't want their Burke job, I feel pretty strongly that they need someone to take it. You know, because Luka and Dinwiddie will both likely miss at least a few games along the way.
Also, if that's the plan, I feel like Hardaway starting to help provide space for that Luka/McGee pnr action makes a ton of sense, offensively. Save the Luka/Dinwiddie (together) minutes for the 4th, in my opinion.
I certainly agree with your concerns (that they are one injury away from playing 1/3 of the game without any playmaker at all on the floor) ... but the only real answer to that would be that they do apparently see THJ as a potential 3rd playmaker/creator type, as we said, and are heading down that road.
Or else we're back in the same Loop of Puzzlement over why they talked Dragic out of taking their 15th slot (at minimum salary), and what alternative they have in mind for 3rd Creator. If any. Which, if they don't, seems like a recipe for inevitable disaster.