Duarte surpasses Red Velvet on the depth chart??
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Nope. There were plenty of people thinking it was going to be one of the best 2 C spot combos in the league after the Domas trade. Just watch. You don't want players making 14 million + on your bench if they can't produce and are mostly production players. JT, Holmes, people don't deny it again. Get it OFF YOUR BOOKS. In the last decade or so this is literally fool me thrice if you ignore history. If Huerter goes to the bench at some point and flourishes it's not bad, but this is still such a guard heavy team with wing needs that it's a gamble long term since the margin for error is so small with a role like that.
Yeah. Holmes came here as an energy big and exceeded expectations playing next to Hali in Luke's simple offence. He lost his value when Hali left and an all NBA centre joined the team. The coach and play style also changed and he had some injury + personal issues.
Huerter came here as a rotation player on playoff team and was a starter on our 48 win team last year. His form has dipped, but Chris Duarte to Huerter is not the same as Sabonis to Holmes.
Huerter came here as a rotation player on playoff team and was a starter on our 48 win team last year. His form has dipped, but Chris Duarte to Huerter is not the same as Sabonis to Holmes.
offensively he had a similar connection with Bogdan before Tyrese, but never found that connection with anybody else on last seasons team.
since he hasn’t caught on early in Dallas with Luka and Kyrie I’m more inclined to believe that it wasn’t the fit and that Holmes is kinda broken like you suggest. I thought he would sorta regain his form there.
since he hasn’t caught on early in Dallas with Luka and Kyrie I’m more inclined to believe that it wasn’t the fit and that Holmes is kinda broken like you suggest. I thought he would sorta regain his form there.
Again with the revisionist history? Serious? Do you think this is some habit of mine?
I also don't get what component of my post you claim is wrong? I acknowledge: the trade, the coach change, the injury, the personal issues?
Should I respond to your post with 'Again with the reductionist thinking'? Or 'Again with the misrepresentations'!!
I also don't get what component of my post you claim is wrong? I acknowledge: the trade, the coach change, the injury, the personal issues?
Should I respond to your post with 'Again with the reductionist thinking'? Or 'Again with the misrepresentations'!!
Holmes got the starting spot by having people who were supposedly good NBA players ahead of him in the rotation fail catastrophically with the Kings.
Dewayne Dedmon and Marvin Bagley were basically useless, so somebody has to take the shots. Thus Holmes, who was an 8 and 4 player before Walton, became a 12 and 8 player with Coach Luke.
With Mike Brown, in the games before the eye injury in Orlando, Holmes was averaging 4 PTS-3 REB, and the team was 2-5. That's not acceptable production for an NBA rotation player.
Richaun took advantage of the opportunity that fell to him, but that opportunity dried up before his eye trauma.
Dewayne Dedmon and Marvin Bagley were basically useless, so somebody has to take the shots. Thus Holmes, who was an 8 and 4 player before Walton, became a 12 and 8 player with Coach Luke.
With Mike Brown, in the games before the eye injury in Orlando, Holmes was averaging 4 PTS-3 REB, and the team was 2-5. That's not acceptable production for an NBA rotation player.
Richaun took advantage of the opportunity that fell to him, but that opportunity dried up before his eye trauma.
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His eye injury was before Brown was the coach. Dec 2021.
https://www.nbcsportsbayarea.com/nb...its-to-goggles-recounts-scary-injury/1171639/
https://www.nbcsportsbayarea.com/nb...its-to-goggles-recounts-scary-injury/1171639/