Vertical Limit wrote:People keep posting potential line ups here… i dont know if some of you all know this yet… but today, Goran Dragic is a better player than Kyle Lowry. There were many seasons where Kyle was the better player… but Gorans game has aged better, hes in better physical condition, and hes just the better player right now period. We did not improve at the 1. It was a lateral move best case scenario except, we paying Kyle 10 million more per season
A couple things and please don't take this as slander towards Goran as it isn't intended that way. Lowry is both a better defender and facilitator than Goran, and he has the added benefit of tending to be more available. For the price point I see what you are saying, but Goran wasn't coming in and running an offense. He was coming in and getting buckets. A big point of value in Lowry is that he can come in and dictate tempo. He can run an offense so that we aren't reliant on Jimmy isos and Bam dribble hand offs for the half court offense to function. He gives us greater flexibility and he gets Jimmy to buy in for the next few years and that wasn't a given unless we made some moves to show Jimmy that we were committed.