wco81 wrote:If DVV stayed with the team, they probably would have gone a different way with the draft than Podz. That may or may not be a good thing, won't know for awhile.
Otherwise, if he could have raised his 3PA volume while maintaining the shooting percentages from last year as well as provide some ballandling for 25 MPG or more, he absolutely would have helped the team this year.
For all those who didn't want Klay to get so many minutes, a productive DDV would have given the team options. I know the same people who wanted to reduce Klay's role also are Moody stans. But he only played in garbage time last night, in one of the key remaining games of the season.
That should tip you off that it's probably going to be Klay in the playoffs rotation, not Moody. But DDV might have provided an alternative option, because Moses just hasn't been consistent enough shooter to get an expanded role.
Someone said elsewhere recently that hoping a great player like Klay gets back to something like his former heights is a better bet than hoping a player who has never reached those heights will somehow get there, and this is indeed true imo, and you were correct all along. No one would want Klay benched and Moody in his place on current form, but Moody’s play-off form last season was better than Klay’s for much of this season when he was chucking, not defending or rebounding, and being too tired when in the closing line-up for a number of games GSW lost at the death.
Those including me who thought his injuries and age meant he couldn’t get back to his current form were wrong, and kudos to Kerr (and you) for having better judgement. We still have to see whether Klay taking this long to come good will mean they are eliminated early in the play-offs by the Lakers whom they might have avoided with a higher seeding.
