I love Tatum. I would do it in a heartbeat. But, Not sure Boston would bite, even with a first round pick.
I agree.
Bagley is showing a tendency to be injury prone and they're questions about this BBIQ and His apparent lack of offseason conditioning.
Do you have a link that supports this claim?
A Froncourt Bjelica/Holmes is actually very average and against playoff type teams, that don't do much. I would say combined they would rank in the Bottom 10 of frontcourts in the NBA.
So? Who cares if they are average players/adequate starters? How does the rest of the team look? Is the rest of the team average? Fox, Hield, Bogdanovic, Barnes, & Tatum. They may be average in terms of how that young group performs on the floor today, but as Fox & Tatum develop, the idea would be that a Fox, Hield, Bogdanovic, Barnes, & Tatum group would be well above average compared to what other teams can throw out there on the perimeter.
Lets look at the numbers against good and solid playoff team/early contenders:
I get what you're trying to do, but you're essentially cherrypicking games from an already very small sample size and making the sample size even smaller.
Bjelica:
Toronto 5 pts 2-7
Utah 11 pts 4-8
Denver 12 pts 4-11
Utah 7 pts 3-5
PhX 5 pts 2-6
Averages Less that 10 pts a game against teams that are over .500
Holmes:
Toronto: 8 pts 8 rebounds 31 minutes
Utah: 8 Pts 2 rebounds in 20 minutes
Denver: 24 pts 13 rebounds in 30 min
Utah: 6 pts 1 Rebounds in 15 min
Phoenix 1 pt 5 Rebounds in 17 min
Averages 9pts and 6 boards per game
That is not a great starting frontcourt: If you're getting 18 pts a game from your 2 front court players, you're not beating quality Playoff teams very often. If those are you 2 bench guys. Their awesome.
Kings are 4-6
But, Only 1 Quality win. Against the Jazz.
First of all, I don't understand why you're only taking into account points and rebounds like those are the only things that matter in a basketball game.
Secondly, the frontcourt is a SF, PF, & C. You are only considering the PF & C for some odd reason.
Thirdly, you forgot to include how many minutes those guys played to combine for 18 pts per game. If they played 10 mins, that's very good. if they played 48 minutes, that's definitely on the lower side. Context matters.
Per 36 minutes, in those games you mentioned, they averaged a combined 25.8 PPG. If you look at the entire season, they average a combined 29.0 PPG per 36 minutes. Let's look at other teams who have froncourts who score at a similar rate:
Look at that! Many cases where teams are above .500 who have PFs/Cs who score at a similar rate as the Kings.
It's not about how good the PF & C are. It's about how good the team is. Teams come in all shapes and sizes.
It's like saying you can't win with Joel Anthony as your starting C. Well actually you can when you have LeBron, Wade, & Bosh starting alongside of him.
The 3 teams who I thought for sure would be worse than Sac are all significantly better than Sac:
Dallas: Doncic is leading a team of second rate role players. Porzingas still has not got his legs back.
Minnesota: Wiggins is an early candidate for both MIP and MVP. Now, He has shocked the world. Saunders also is a coach of year candidate.
Phoenix: Williams also COY. The acquistions of Baynes, Rubio have been huge. Booker is playing hard and smart for the first time in his young career.
Wiggins is a candidate for MVP? He's not even the MVP of his own team...