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If only we have Young's shooting and Brown's defense at the 2 spot...

Might as well experiment on starting one or the other?

At this point I'd take Brown or Young over Lou. There's no reason JC shouldn't start tho. He's the best guard out of all those guys.

I understand having a strong second unit but having crappy players in your starting lineup just so you can have a good second unit makes no sense to me. It's supposed to be the other way around. Plus, D'Lo and JC play so well together.

Don't know. Hoping he starts tho.

lake_show wrote:At this point I'd take Brown or Young over Lou. There's no reason JC shouldn't start tho. He's the best guard out of all those guys.

I understand having a strong second unit but having crappy players in your starting lineup just so you can have a good second unit makes no sense to me. It's supposed to be the other way around. Plus, D'Lo and JC play so well together.

Don't know. Hoping he starts tho.

I'd like to see if we can trade for a legit 3 and D guy like shumpert. Having a guy like that as our starter would make us a legit 35 win team I think, even with our young roster. That would give a while lot of freedom to Julius and D'angelo to show us what they're going to be capable of. It would give us a great "audition" and idea of what we need to do for next year roster-wise and it would likely inflate those two players stats if we want to move one in a trade.

But anyways I feel you, I like the idea of Clarkson off the bench potentially... Just not behind Lou. Who knows, maybe we're trying to showcase our players like Lou early to make a trade.

Ugh the poll is frustrating. While I love the idea of Clarkson on the bench, i do not at the expense of Lou starting. But looking at how things are working out, i'm going to have to say yes he will start the season on the Bench. I would rather see Young starting over Lou to play with Russell (which is really sad). While he his own game irritates me he is more likely to shoot the ball of the catch, unlike Lou who always wants to dribble first no matter how open he is.

what would jack bauer do? wrote:

lake_show wrote:At this point I'd take Brown or Young over Lou. There's no reason JC shouldn't start tho. He's the best guard out of all those guys.

I understand having a strong second unit but having crappy players in your starting lineup just so you can have a good second unit makes no sense to me. It's supposed to be the other way around. Plus, D'Lo and JC play so well together.

Don't know. Hoping he starts tho.

I'd like to see if we can trade for a legit 3 and D guy like shumpert. Having a guy like that as our starter would make us a legit 35 win team I think, even with our young roster. That would give a while lot of freedom to Julius and D'angelo to show us what they're going to be capable of. It would give us a great "audition" and idea of what we need to do for next year roster-wise and it would likely inflate those two players stats if we want to move one in a trade.

But anyways I feel you, I like the idea of Clarkson off the bench potentially... Just not behind Lou. Who knows, maybe we're trying to showcase our players like Lou early to make a trade.

A guy like Shumpert would be the dream. I guess the goal is for either a guy like Brown to maybe grow into that roll or, to trade for someone to fill that roll at some point in the future. But if we're banking on a guy like Lou to turn into that after 11 years in the league I personally think we're in trouble.

The reason certain scoring guards are pegged as 6th men (such as Crawford, or Lou) is because they're usually good scorers but they either can't defend, they're too short for their position, they have trouble playing within the offense, or any combination of those. The reason Clarkson got so much 6th man hype last year (from me included) is because he's a good scorer but he was a horrible defender, and a lot of the time he needed to break his man off the dribble to score effectively. So far this year Clarkson is showing he can defend and he's not only playing within the offense but he seems to know exactly how he wants to score, and when he wants to attack. Jordan looks good... and, if he can keep that up for an entire year he IS and should be the starter.

Lou won 6th man of the year because he is a typical 6th man type player... I don't know what the obsession of subbing out D'Lo or JC for this guy is. I say let's just let him do what he does well... 6th man lol.

Good to see Gallo is playing this game, should be a good test for us.

what would jack bauer do? wrote:

lake_show wrote:At this point I'd take Brown or Young over Lou. There's no reason JC shouldn't start tho. He's the best guard out of all those guys.

I understand having a strong second unit but having crappy players in your starting lineup just so you can have a good second unit makes no sense to me. It's supposed to be the other way around. Plus, D'Lo and JC play so well together.

Don't know. Hoping he starts tho.

I'd like to see if we can trade for a legit 3 and D guy like shumpert. Having a guy like that as our starter would make us a legit 35 win team I think, even with our young roster. That would give a while lot of freedom to Julius and D'angelo to show us what they're going to be capable of. It would give us a great "audition" and idea of what we need to do for next year roster-wise and it would likely inflate those two players stats if we want to move one in a trade.

But anyways I feel you, I like the idea of Clarkson off the bench potentially... Just not behind Lou. Who knows, maybe we're trying to showcase our players like Lou early to make a trade.

Lou doesn't need to be showcased. His value is set and every GM knows what he brings as a player.

Luke said Zubac should get more burn tonight. Interested to see how he does with extended minutes

I wouldn't take too much away from preseason lineups... coaches want to see as many players under as many different circumstances before they have to pare the roster down. It would shock me if Clarkson is not a starter when the actual season starts with Lou coming off the bench behind him

moonpie wrote:Luke said Zubac should get more burn tonight. Interested to see how he does with extended minutes

Yes!

I just don't want to see that struggle lineup that closed out the game Friday night.

Deng out. Young will replace him in the starting lineup.

lol nick and lou starting....luke really testing out what he has.

Swaggy P here to stay lol.

good lord...lou and nick with assists in under 6 mins

Said it last game and so far haven't changed my mind, this nuggets team is in no way better than the Lakers

you knew that Heat check was coming for Russell. lol

Russelllllllllllllll

Clarkson look lost playing off the bench.

nice first step by Ingram