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Taurean Prince signs with Bucks - one year deal
Posted: Wed Jul 3, 2024 9:33 pm
by paulpressey25
Assumed the signing is for a one-year deal
He’s 30 years old. BB Reference page is here ->
https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/p/princta02.html
Re: Taurean Prince signs with Bucks - one year deal
Posted: Wed Jul 3, 2024 9:33 pm
by humanrefutation
Really nice signing.
Re: Taurean Prince signs with Bucks - one year deal
Posted: Wed Jul 3, 2024 9:34 pm
by paulpressey25
humanrefutation wrote:Really nice signing.
Doesn’t he sort of replace Beasley?
Re: Taurean Prince signs with Bucks - one year deal
Posted: Wed Jul 3, 2024 9:36 pm
by BUCKnation
paulpressey25 wrote:humanrefutation wrote:Really nice signing.
Doesn’t he sort of replace Beasley?
Probably more like Jae
Re: Taurean Prince signs with Bucks - one year deal
Posted: Wed Jul 3, 2024 9:37 pm
by JonHeist
yeah he's basically a less-washed crowder
Re: Taurean Prince signs with Bucks - one year deal
Posted: Wed Jul 3, 2024 9:38 pm
by humanrefutation
paulpressey25 wrote:humanrefutation wrote:Really nice signing.
Doesn’t he sort of replace Beasley?
I see him more as a replacement for Jae, albeit a smaller and less physical version. He could slide to the 2 in a bigger lineup, but I don't see him as quick enough to guard 2s on a consistent basis. I see Wright as the Beas replacement.
Re: Taurean Prince signs with Bucks - one year deal
Posted: Wed Jul 3, 2024 9:41 pm
by German Athens
I can’t believe he’s 30. Where the hell has the time gone?
Re: Taurean Prince signs with Bucks - one year deal
Posted: Wed Jul 3, 2024 9:41 pm
by tydett
This is a good pickup. Decent bench piece who can play spot minutes in the playoffs without giving up a lot.
Re: Taurean Prince signs with Bucks - one year deal
Posted: Wed Jul 3, 2024 9:42 pm
by machu46
I do feel like there's a chance some potentially better free agents end up settling for minimums when the dust settles, but can't be mad at this or the Wright pickups. Both pretty solid players.
Re: Taurean Prince signs with Bucks - one year deal
Posted: Wed Jul 3, 2024 9:43 pm
by LUKE23
Wright and Prince is obviously a good step up from Beasley/Crowder defensively, as low as that bar was to clear. I am still hoping we have a move for a starting SG. It seems like we are a bit overloaded now with SG/SF while also not having a clear pecking order or defined roles.
SG: Green, Wright, Jackson
SF: Middleton, PC, Prince, Beauchamp, Livingston
Re: Taurean Prince signs with Bucks - one year deal
Posted: Wed Jul 3, 2024 9:43 pm
by Prez
An actual NBA rotation level wing that isn’t in his mid-late 30s, I will take it lol.
Re: Taurean Prince signs with Bucks - one year deal
Posted: Wed Jul 3, 2024 9:45 pm
by LUKE23
Between this add and the second apron issue, I feel like PC is about to be gone.
Re: Taurean Prince signs with Bucks - one year deal
Posted: Wed Jul 3, 2024 9:48 pm
by mcfromage
Decent. MTC let’s hope. Horsty. The Horst.
Re: Taurean Prince signs with Bucks - one year deal
Posted: Wed Jul 3, 2024 9:51 pm
by MVP2110
This is another solid vet min signing. He's a guy who can start for Khris if Khris is out or play 20 min or so off the bench. Decent shooter and defender.
I've seen some people talk about playing him as a small ball 4 and I don't see that happening much considering he's a bad rebounder, we'd likely get killed on the glass if he had to play the 4 for extended stretches
I feel like something has to be coming, if you can our 2 ways we have 3 bigs, 2 point guards, and 12 wings
Re: Taurean Prince signs with Bucks - one year deal
Posted: Wed Jul 3, 2024 9:51 pm
by ReasonablySober
Solid.
Re: Taurean Prince signs with Bucks - one year deal
Posted: Wed Jul 3, 2024 9:53 pm
by Bernman
It's fine. All you can ask for, given the resources.
His net ratings over the yrs are suspect, but they are discernibly better at PF, where we'll likely play him most, as opposed to SF.
Rebounding's the concern here. I don't think he should be played w/ Brook much. Nobody would grab a board. Already an issue.
Giannis small ball mainly, sometimes Portis (if he stays) at C, Prince at PF may work.
Re: Taurean Prince signs with Bucks - one year deal
Posted: Wed Jul 3, 2024 9:54 pm
by yb90
Nice the Bucks needed a wing that can shoot and defend both forward positions.
Re: Taurean Prince signs with Bucks - one year deal
Posted: Wed Jul 3, 2024 9:58 pm
by PG Graveyard
I’m really surprised he was available for the minimum
Re: Taurean Prince signs with Bucks - one year deal
Posted: Wed Jul 3, 2024 9:59 pm
by raferfenix
Feeling good about it.
Last season, Taurean Prince appeared in 78 games and started 49 times for the Los Angeles Lakers under then-Lakers head coach (and current Bucks lead assistant coach) Darvin Ham. The 30-year-old Prince averaged 8.9 points and 2.9 rebounds in 27 minutes per game while knocking down 39.6 percent from 3 on 4.6 attempts from deep per game. While the 6-foot-6 wing with a 7-foot wingspan spent the majority of his time at power forward in his three stops before Los Angeles, Prince played small forward 70 percent of the time last season with the Lakers, according to positional estimates from Cleaning the Glass.
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/live-blogs/nba-free-agency-signings-deals-tracker-lebron-james/4V28798D4yCU/46lGgFFrmXRz/
Re: Taurean Prince signs with Bucks - one year deal
Posted: Wed Jul 3, 2024 9:59 pm
by Bernman
MVP2110 wrote:This is another solid vet min signing. He's a guy who can start for Khris if Khris is out or play 20 min or so off the bench. Decent shooter and defender.
I've seen some people talk about playing him as a small ball 4 and I don't see that happening much considering he's a bad rebounder, we'd likely get killed on the glass if he had to play the 4 for extended stretches
I feel like something has to be coming, if you can our 2 ways we have 3 bigs, 2 point guards, and 12 wings
He's a big, who can't rebound, but still.
Net ratings:
'24: +1.4 at PF, -2.1 SF
'23: +3.6 at PF, -2.3 SF
'22: +2.4 at PF, -5.1 SF
Just keep him away from Brook, but next to Giannis, maybe Bobby, history suggests it works well enough, & better than SF. AJJ flying in to get his hand on boards would help. Giannis-Prince-AJJ-Brown?-Dame would be a good lineup, that could board.