giberish wrote:I'm lower on Orlando's young players than most, and as such I would have preferred to see a more dymanic offseason (though it does stand to reason that the GM who built the team is higher on it than I am). I see Harris as a Jeff Green quality combo forward - who's a liability at $16M/yr, not an asset. Hezonja looks ok, I had him behind Muliday - but a teams with Payton didn't make sense drafting Muliday - and outside of a few WTF moves draft picks are tough to rate.
My issues with Orlando are that I just see a low upside to this core. Outside of the very young Hezonja and Gordon (who both could be almost anything at this point) I don't see anyone who could be a top-3 player on a good team. There's a bunch of lower tier starters and solid bench guys that with solid depth could easily get to .500 or so in the next 2-4 years but then it'll just be an expensive mediocre team.
Also, I don't see 5-man lineup options that both have enough shooting to work on offense and can play credible defense. They can load up offense-first lineups that can't stop anyone or solid defensive units that only have 1 or 2 credible 3-point threats but I don't see any lineups that won't be bad on one side of the ball.
very down on the Magic players then. Dipo could be viewed as an arguable top-6 SG right now. Harris and Dipo both invited to Team USA. Harris isnt a liability at $16m/yr, especially in the new financial climate. Especially being only just turned 23, he can still get better.
Vuc has a great chance to be an all-star this year.