Recent content by Rain man

Simmons actually makes a lot of sense as a 12-15 minute backup PG, because he would guard the 4 on defense. So it allows you to play a Carter-Keon-Clifford-Simmons second unit because Simmons gives you the play making that Carter/Keon lack, but can actually guard big wings.

Except Nique isn’t a small guard. He is a small wing with done versatility to play 1-3. So there is huge difference in taking Davion/Carter in the lottery vs taking someone like Nique at 24.

Honestly, having Raynaud replace Lyles is the way good teams are built in the current era. Almost all of your money should be spent on your top 6-7 guys. You generally want your 8-9 man rotation to be 3 or so high-priced max and near max stars, 2-3 quality veteran role players, and 2-3 quality...

Any minutes you can get him to credibly play stretch 4 are minutes where we are solving some of our significant size challenges. Being able to get minutes of a Domas-Maxime-Keegan frontline would be huge (quite literally).

And yet at the same time, he spent the entire game guarding a pretty big 3/4 wing. Time will tell. By the way, my initial comment was just a playful poke at you. You are actually a good sport about things. It isn't easy to be the contrarian on a message board filled with overly...

And you based your conclusion that he can't guard 3s on what??? His mixtape??? I love that you can conclusively state what a player will be and won't be off of no actual game experience, but then I am not allowed to use an actual game experience to point out the opposite. I agree that 1...

You mean 6'8" Tristan Da Silva? The guy who played 3/4 for Orlando last year and was a regular rotation player for a playoff team? The guy who is a promising young wing in the NBA? You mean our new rookie matched up with him most of the night? But I thought he couldn't possible guard 3s...

Listen - I love Isaac Jones. I absolutely think he deserves more shot to play than he got last year, and I think he will be successful as a rotation player. But saying "As for three-point shooting, he hit 37.5%, better than Murray, Lyles, DeRozan, Monk, Fox, and Huerter, in that order..." is...

Chris Boucher???

I think it works, according to Spotrac, if the Kings also absorb Buddy into the Huerter TPE. Then you can take on Kuminga at $25M (counting as $12.5M outgoing for the Warriors) with the additional $9M for Buddy making it work numbers wise. Not crazy about bringing Buddy back, but that works...

Disagree. I would honestly want any of those guys on our team.

Look- I don't love Schroder at 3/45. But this is evidence that Perry isn't a lightweight. He wanted to trade Monk to Detroit and get real assets and Detroit obviously said no. They wanted it to be Schroder for Monk straight up. So Perry called their bluff, dumped JV, signed Schroder without...

Monk for PJ Washington was always a pipe dream. Just because Kevin Pelton says he would do it doesn't mean Dallas would... Similar pipedream - get back Ron Holland with Schroeder!

Agree- the Jazz just bought out Jordan Clarkson because no one would trade for him, and he is expected to sign with the Knicks for the minimum. I would rather have Monk than Clarkson, but the differences between the two, in terms of skills set, are not so vast that one would have a...

We better be getting something else in return. I defended the front office saying it likely wouldn't be a straight swap. If it is then we are getting fleeced.