PrimeThyme wrote:pepe1991 wrote:PrimeThyme wrote:I disagree. There are still major question marks with AG's game offensively. Even the biggest AG supporter would attest to that. He was awful last night, and if he and Evan (even though he was better last night) continue to play so poorly offensively this will be a 25 win team. There is nothing hateful or untrue about saying that.
i already adressed it up above, my point was not about Gordon, i just didn't want to bold mid sentence to make it look i pulled something out of context.
I still belive that key for successful rebuild are versitale, talented and dynamic PG and SF, mostly because i don't think BIG will ever provide enough spacing,craetivity, ballhandling and overall high quality offense to work as a team.
Am i willing to flush whole year in a toilet do make sure that they can't play together? Actually I am. I'm not sure front office is.
tbh i think that mistake for both Dallas and Magic were not swapping their 2017 draftees. Would instantly make both rosters better.
We had to draft for upside in the 2017 draft and Isaac was that pick. In the short term yes DSJ would have made us better, but I'm just not sold on him over Isaac. He has been what I thought he would be, an inefficient athletic highlight reel. You generally don't like those type of point guards so I'm surprised to have seen you talked so highly about him lately. I do think playing next to Doncic and on a win-now team will lead to a much better season for him this year but I still don't think his ceiling is insanely high (Lillard or Westbrooke lite imo).
At the end of the day this front office has to put Bamba and Isaac in the best situations to succeed. Their jobs depend on it. If that means trading AG after this year for a PG so that Isaac can play PF I fully expect them to do that. Thats why I have no issues with the selection. At some point, if they want to remain employed they will have to drastically change this roster to ensure that Isaac/Bamba will be put in the best situations to succeed.
Not sure about Smith, he would balance roster better , in same time with Dallas, Isaac would benefit from Doncic and Deandre.
Smith's development is all about efficiency on offense. In preseason he shot 6-15 for 3, that's 40% on overall 44% FG ( i don't count games against non nba teams ). if he can keep up that percentiges, and still drop 15 ppg in 25-30 min than he could be next great PG . He is yet to turn 21 , i don't expect him to be smart and crafty as Chris Paul any time soon , or ever.
My biggest problem with approach of front office is their doubling down on bigs in times when most teams don't use them. Ofc you need C, but you don't need 3 players with same weaknesses ( offense in general ).
