09-05-2020, 01:36 AM
(This post was last modified: 09-05-2020, 01:40 AM by KillerLeft.)
(09-04-2020, 04:55 PM)MrGoat Wrote: By no metrics is Wright an impact defender. A passable one yes, maybe slightly over average. You can tell that this team is really lacking defense if we're throwing around the term impact defender to describe Delon Wright. Our defensive rating in the Clippers series was 121.4 as a team, that's only the 4th worst defensive single season playoff performance of all time and doesn't happen to a team that doesn't have a problem with doesn't have trouble finding defensive players
I agree with your assessment of the team, but not of Wright. I think he IS an impact player, but due to him being an insanely poor fit on offense, he was literally unplayable. An impact defender can't impact the game from the bench, which is where Wright was in the Clippers series.
Maybe I'm missing your point. If your message is that Wright isn't good enough to make a defensive impact from the bench, then yes, I agree completely. But it seems like you're using the Clippers series to support an argument that Wright isn't an impact defender, which seems odd since he played a total of 53 minutes in that series.
And, to be clear, I'm not claiming that Carlisle should've played him. I wouldn't have given him as many chances as he got this season, to be honest, and I'm in no way attempting to make the claim that his acquisition was a success. But, when he got those chances, I do think he demonstrated a high capability on one side of the floor.
(09-04-2020, 11:54 PM)SwisherPrice Wrote: Bucks fans have to be sick...that core is awful. Middleton and Bledsoe are not good and they are being paid a lot of money for a lot of years. If Giannis shows loyalty and takes the money to re-sign, he better understand that there won't be any championships.
Yes, Giannis has lots of flaws and will continue to improve, just like any franchise player at 26. But his supporting cast is not going to improve very much.
At least when the Mavs started fizzling out under Avery's run, Josh Howard and Devin Harris were still young and had trade value. Bledsoe and Middleton are older and good luck getting anyone to trade for those contracts.
My dude isn't re-signing in Milwaukee, people.
Can anyone honestly give me one name that will be more attractive in 2021 than Luka to a dude like that? Honest question. I get it - Fish sold us all on 5 years worth of click bait BS that, if we were using our brains, we would've swatted back at him Dikembe Motumbo style. But, in this case? I honestly believe Luka and the Mavs are going to have their pick.