Welcome Davion Mitchell
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Don’t get all sanctimonious as if you haven’t participated in threads where others wished you had stopped. That’s bush league.
Furthermore you are more than capable of skipping past posts you don’t want to read or ignoring.
I’ll be sure to troll you the next time you’re in a back and forth with someone.
Furthermore you are more than capable of skipping past posts you don’t want to read or ignoring.
I’ll be sure to troll you the next time you’re in a back and forth with someone.
Don’t get all sanctimonious as if you haven’t participated in threads where others wished you had stopped. That’s bush league.
Furthermore you are more than capable of skipping past posts you don’t want to read or ignoring.
I’ll be sure to troll you the next time you’re in a back and forth with someone.
Furthermore you are more than capable of skipping past posts you don’t want to read or ignoring.
I’ll be sure to troll you the next time you’re in a back and forth with someone.
I think we can. I'm not sure you can win playing Fox, Hali, and Mitchell TOGETHER for 30 minutes, but I think you can play them all 30+ minutes and be a winner. We've seen enough of Davion bodying guys like Lebron, George, and Melo (most of whom play 4, not 3) to know Davion can guard the 3 for some stretches, though I wouldn't want to rely on that as a game long/season long fix. But if you want to close with that lineup, or find 6-8 minutes of a Davion-Hali-Fox lineup, I think you can. And then you can take advantage of those three playing basically all of the 1 and 2 minutes, and mixing and matching them for different looks (I love the differences you get with Fox/Hali compared to Hali/Mitchell, and Fox/Mitchell). But you could role:
1- Fox (32); Mitchell (16)
2- Hali (32); Mitchell (8); Davis (8)
3- Buddy (24); Davis (16); Mitchell (8)
4- Barnes (32); Harkless (16);
5- Holmes (32) TT or Len (16)
Ideally, I think your long term play is try to consolidate Buddy and Bagley (who would not make my rotation) with some draft picks to find a better fit at 3/4, and bump Harkless from the rotation, but again, I think you are rolling a lot of three guard lineups with Davis at the 3:
1- Fox (32); Mitchell (16)
2- Hali (32); Mitchell (8); Davis (8)
3- Future SF (24); Davis (16); Mitchell (8)
4- Barnes (32); Future SF (8); ???? (8- flexible- Davis if you want to play super small, TT if you want to play super big, Metu if you want to find minutes for him; Harkless if he is still around and you prioritize D)
5- Holmes (32); TT/Len (16)
SO I think you can find the minutes for Fox, Hali, Mitchell, Barnes, Holmes, and a future SF to all play 30+ minutes, without having to play Fox, Hali, and Mitchell extended minutes together. That is 6 core 30 minute players, a key reserve in Davis playing 24 minutes, 16 minutes to a backup big, and 8 minutes to play with if you want to get a 9th guy in the rotation (you could also carve 1-2 minutes from other guys here and there to give the 9th guy closer to 16 minutes).
1- Fox (32); Mitchell (16)
2- Hali (32); Mitchell (8); Davis (8)
3- Buddy (24); Davis (16); Mitchell (8)
4- Barnes (32); Harkless (16);
5- Holmes (32) TT or Len (16)
Ideally, I think your long term play is try to consolidate Buddy and Bagley (who would not make my rotation) with some draft picks to find a better fit at 3/4, and bump Harkless from the rotation, but again, I think you are rolling a lot of three guard lineups with Davis at the 3:
1- Fox (32); Mitchell (16)
2- Hali (32); Mitchell (8); Davis (8)
3- Future SF (24); Davis (16); Mitchell (8)
4- Barnes (32); Future SF (8); ???? (8- flexible- Davis if you want to play super small, TT if you want to play super big, Metu if you want to find minutes for him; Harkless if he is still around and you prioritize D)
5- Holmes (32); TT/Len (16)
SO I think you can find the minutes for Fox, Hali, Mitchell, Barnes, Holmes, and a future SF to all play 30+ minutes, without having to play Fox, Hali, and Mitchell extended minutes together. That is 6 core 30 minute players, a key reserve in Davis playing 24 minutes, 16 minutes to a backup big, and 8 minutes to play with if you want to get a 9th guy in the rotation (you could also carve 1-2 minutes from other guys here and there to give the 9th guy closer to 16 minutes).
Really good. What this team is missing is another 3/4 flex (not Harkless) that can take a 30+ minute role and we'd be cooking. I'm bullish Lou King can continue to develop and be a 2/3 flex guy, but an OG Anunoby/Michael Porter archetype with Barnes would glue this team together so so well. That's why a lot of us were looking strongly at Wagner to potentially fill that role. Flipping Buddy and/or Bagley into draft capital or a prospect in that vein would set this team up so well in the future.
The bench upgrades looks so apparent over last season. We were essentially a 6-man team and the house crumbled as soon as we had an injury to the top 6 (ran pretty good for the first 30 games that everyone stayed healthy). I think a lot of teams are going to have trouble with keeping pace with Mitchell-TD-Buddy offensive firepower off the bench. And if Walton staggers Fox/Hali correctly, one of them should be fresh to attack bench units basically every game with the above 3 guys.
The bench upgrades looks so apparent over last season. We were essentially a 6-man team and the house crumbled as soon as we had an injury to the top 6 (ran pretty good for the first 30 games that everyone stayed healthy). I think a lot of teams are going to have trouble with keeping pace with Mitchell-TD-Buddy offensive firepower off the bench. And if Walton staggers Fox/Hali correctly, one of them should be fresh to attack bench units basically every game with the above 3 guys.
those guys are the hardest guys in the NBA to find. That’s why with potential go earlier in the draft than 9. Hell this year was pretty deep in wings and you saw them run off the board quickly: Cunningham, Barnes, Kuminga, Wagner, Giddey…. Boom. And then you saw
Williams go right after we picked Mitchell. Same reason Hali fell to us the previous year. I was arguing for Williams at 12 and he went 4.
anyway, you aren’t trading Buddy or Bagley for a guy like that who can play 30 min.
Williams go right after we picked Mitchell. Same reason Hali fell to us the previous year. I was arguing for Williams at 12 and he went 4.
anyway, you aren’t trading Buddy or Bagley for a guy like that who can play 30 min.
