The team passed on drafting Doncic to keep the ball in Fox's hands. Russell was an all star PG on a playoff team.
It could work, but that doesn't seem likely.
Yeah but honestly, everything is different now. Marvin's here... Buddy massive breakout season.. We've got more toys to play with... Russell is a great passer, he can share the sugar.
Russell can play SF for us, he's a legit 6'5. He doesnt need the ball that long, he just needs to shoot it, which is perfect.
Fox is not a ballhog... Fox is the opposite, he is actually looking to push it at warp speed all the time, he's already mastered this steve nash style cherry picking routine, Russell can come here and reap the rewards.. It doesnt happen often but everyonce in a while you'll see fox is so fast eh's waiting for teammates to catch up. Russell is intuitively a great scorer and would be able to anticipate having a pg like fox..
Russell has never played with anyone like De'Aaron(and vise verse).... the De'Aaron-Buddy-Russell trio would be utterly devastating. we will win the west before next decade ends if we get de'angelo russell, it's a massive power move..
think of the lakers matchups too, we'd blow teams outa the water. Kings score 120 a game with Russell, and only reason they go less is cuz it's blowouts/garbagetime 4q's..
He has great vision and makes passes like a PG.. We have great ball-movement here for such a young team, Russell would only add to it..
PLUS THINK OF THE FLOOR SPACING... BUDDY and Marvin and the C's WILL BENEFIT THE MOST..... IT'll be pick your poison instead of Buddy being shadowed, which is honestly what slowed down the playoff push as much as anything, teams adjusting more to buddy buckets
Russell's really more of a combo guard in a swingmans body... being an excellent PG is really just part of his skillset, more than thats his true position. He's capable of playing 3 positions with extreme efficency, in the NBA, vs starters, lemme make that very clear...
I would definitely cite the LaVine offer.... How are we gonna offer on LaVine then pass on Russell??? That seems, far more inconsistent than the play of WCS to me...
We will demolish teams if we land D'angelo russell lemme make that very clear. I'll say 60-wins if healthy and we match Willie after.
Within like 3 games here everyone would love the signing... He is $$$$ in crunch-time... Thats no anomaly what you saw last year, he is not to be played with...
Jerry Reynolds in the game, that game, was on the kings broadcast saying "They should consider double-teaming him as he crosses halfcourt"...... That i mean says all ya need to know. were talking about an NBA game here right??
I have seen Vlade's work enough to know, he'd be talking MAJOR crap if we land Russell... and the team would back it up...