saintEscaton wrote:RunDogGun wrote:saintEscaton wrote:
RunDog, don't you understand the basic tradeoff/sacrifice between shot volume and shot efficiency/field goal percentage? Of course you take the sharpshooting marksman Shamet who can stroke it from deep on a high clip with a blistering percentage than a low sample 12th man who's one year of good output could have been a flukey aberration and not replicable. Shamet is undeniably an upgrade over Galloway by a considerable margin. I would still liked to have kept the 29th pick to net us Ayo, Butler or Queta.
Ha, this isn't a Shamet vs Galloway argument from my stand point, it is wasting the 29th pick on a guy we don't need in Shamet. And you agree with that, because you would rather have kept the pick for a guy like Ayo, Butler, or Queta on the bench.
This was a bad trade. It is not horrible, but still bad. Now on the Nets side, they turned an ok shooter lacking defensively, for a bulldog defender, who is not great at running an offense, and a decent big in Sharpe. And they didn't lose any of the picks they had.
But those guys wouldn't have cracked the rotation in the playoffs and would barely sniff the court in the regular season. You can never have enough shooter and Shamet coming off the bench to spell Book will be dynamite pairing with Payne
I don't mind the player Shamet is, but he doesn't change the needle either, and simply not worth both Carter and the #29 pick. We had better shooters deep on our bench we chose not to use. The need is defensive bigs that can give Ayton ten minutes of rest. I think we could have gotten that with the 29th pick. Plus try and get a vet big. Use the vet big and Ayton to get the rookie and Stix ready. I don't know how Shamet and Payne will look off the bench. We don't even know if we will retain Payne, or if he will get a better offer elsewhere. So I am a bit concerned if Shamet is really Payne's replacement if he leaves. I don't like the cost of the draft pick, for what we got in return. We will see how the FA period goes. If we can really shore up the problems in the front court, I guess the pick won't matter much. But then the question for me is would I rather have Shamet or Ayo.
