Tim_Hardawayy wrote:Bosh > Bam on offense at everything but dunking and passing, and even with passing Bam takes too long though he does make nice reads. It's not really up for debate. Bam hasn't been a third option, he has a third option mentality (ie he is afraid to be assertive and take over) but he's constantly asked to be the #2 guy ever since Goran left. Tyler's been hurt and in and out of the lineup, everyone knew it was Bam/Jimmy for years, and then Jimmy left and Bam was clearly the #2 guy on offense (could have been #1 if he seized it and had the bag for it). LOL @ Terry usurping him, Terry chucked a bit but we never went to him, that's some real revisionist history there.
I love Bam, defensively he's everything and a clear upgrade over what CB brought to the team due to his physicality, but we don't have to make things up to make him more than what he is on offense. Which is a very nice complementary piece that really can't do more, and that's OK. He isn't held back by Spo or the team, he's held back by his own limitations, and I'm OK with that, I think you do a disservice to him when you build him up to be more than that because that's where the expectations come in and people get critical over things that aren't his role.
Also these KD/Harden trade ideas are so depressing, I'm already biased against KD but damn there isn't a player I hate more probably than Harden, that would be a really hard team to stomach. You're trying to recreate the 2021/2022 Brooklyn Nets except now it will work when they're 3-4 years older and more banged up? If they came for free I'd take a flyer, but actually making moves to assemble that team feels like what the Nets did to get Pierce/Garnett in 2014.
These are fair (won't comment on the Bam stuff, not sure that that is really a thing), but I wouldn't be mad at either adding Durant/Harden or embracing the rebuild. It's not the greatest idea but probably the FO's best chance at fake-winning, maintaining the orgs brand as a desirable destination/ winning org and competing for competitions sake-- which has miniscule benefits, but benefits nonetheless. Losing for a few seasons can't hurt that much either. Like Kobe said "never too high, never too low"