No qualifying offer for DDV?
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If we are being fair, DDV is an energy guy at SG. Works hard on the defensive end, can create a bit, but he sure as hell chucked it up from everywhere when he came over. His shooting percentages have always been suspect.
I wonder if when he came over, DDV was all about DDV and tried to build his value at the Kings expense. Just a thought.
The other thing is Monk who is clearly a superior offensive player IS good friends with Fox and that means something. Fox and Monk need to bring Bam over to SAC now. Make it happen.
I wonder if when he came over, DDV was all about DDV and tried to build his value at the Kings expense. Just a thought.
The other thing is Monk who is clearly a superior offensive player IS good friends with Fox and that means something. Fox and Monk need to bring Bam over to SAC now. Make it happen.
If you want to be fair, how about the fact that he was coming off a major injury, which everyone, including McNair knew about, and from which one could presume that next year his performance would be better than last year's. Also to be fair, he's one of the better rebounding guards in the league, which this team needs. Whether Fox is friends with Monk or not should be totally immaterial to the deal.
His numbers weren’t much different if at all from pre-injury, to what he was with the Kings though. So I’m not sure that affected very much at all. Rebounding guards isn’t necessarily a talent one has and others don’t, it’s truly and effort stat. There are small guards who are great at rebounding, there are taller guards who don’t have great rebounding numbers, physical guards and nuanced guards who have both good and bad rebounding numbers. What it all boils down to is effort. Out of all the Kings flaws, I think finding a strong rebounding guard is very low on the list of priorities.
Offensively, yes. Defensively, hell no. And wasn't this team supposed to be oriented around tough defense? DDV gave you a shot at a two-way player next year; Monk doesn't in my view. I don't see anybody on this team right now who is going to be a physical wing defender. If the Kings address that need, then the Monk move looks a lot better than it does without that move.
Either that or he's still young and he's improving, in which case he could be better than his prior years. We don't know, do we? I guess according to your theory management doesn't want effort because Fox and Monk and even Mitchell don't have as much effort in rebounding the ball as DDV according to your thinking.
Haha just cause those guys don’t do it doesn’t mean management doesn’t want them to. I think a lot of people, including Mike Brown want to see more effort from Fox in the dirty work part of the game. Monk showed last year with the Lakers that when he applies effort on the lesser glorious aspects of the game he can actually hold his own. Mitchell was a rookie, I expect another level of his game this upcoming year. DDV is not a rookie, nor young, he’s a 25 year old 4 year vet.
TD is still a total unknown. Mitchell can't guard big wing players; they can shoot over the top. So, yes, I'm being very honest. NO, they can't bring the same package. You know what really POs me about this is the fact that the Kings had a chance to see Fox and DDV at the end of last year. Never freaking happened. Holiday, who was playing absolutely putrid, was starting with Fox and garnering major minutes. Gentry was asked about this and did his deflection routine, acting like a politician, not a coach, not answering the question, saying, oh yes you'll see it. Never happened. You could find G league guys who were playing better than Holiday. Why oh why didn't we get to see the experiment with Fox and DDV? Everybody wanted to know. It didn't make any sense. Still doesn't.
Again, I’d like to state. No one is trying to bad mouth DDV or say the dude doesn’t belong in the league, as evidenced by the fact he just signed a contract with the Warriors. It’s just not the detrimental loss you seem to want to make it. I encourage you to dig into Terence Davis, he can and does provide much of what DDV does, only with better shooting.
