OxAndFox wrote:LightTheBeam wrote:BoogieTime wrote:
ok.
This team was literally thrown together without practice or knowing the plays
The team doesn't need any "I told you so" crowd breathing down their necks, or creating trades.
It willl take a long time for equilibrium to be reached, reactions to problems being implemented etc.
After 4 games of barely being acquainted the most we can see are vague outlines of potential issues
Nothing vague about this.. very clear issues
Defense still sucks
We got older as a team
Monk-lavine-derozan are all redundant
Got more expensive short term
No lead facilitator. Monk is doing a terrible job since his buddy got traded
These aren't things that will magically fix. Lavine is 30. He isn't going to suddenly become a lock down 3&d guy. He's a iso ball bad shot maker. Same as derozan, same as monk.
We can play all the wishful thinking we want. The issues are obvious
And you know what compounds it? We now NEED a PG. The only way out of it is:
1 - Keep Monk as the PG and hope it's just teething pains of more responsibility. This COULD be true. I hope it is and Monk gets back to his best. I do have a theory on this too, but hey.
2 - Put Monk to the bench and have Lavine as PG. I mean sure, but that doesn't solve any of the issues we're talking about, just a better defensive unit by starting Keon which is a completely different thing all together.
3 - Devin Carter. Nope. Not only is he not ready, he doesn't seem to be a PG in the sense this team needs.
4 - Sign Starting PG In Off Season. Possible, but how are you fitting new PG, DDR, Lavine, Monk, Keon, Carter into enough minutes? Also you might want to wait that out because if you value LaRavia you MAY need your MLE.
5 - Trade For A PG. Huh? What in the world are we even doing now? Just a shambles if this is the thinking. Unless its 1 or 2 of Monk/Lavine/DDR/Carter going out for a PG then it doesn't make sense.
I hope monk gets better as a point guard, but what made him special is he's kinda wild and unpredictable. It's great when he was on the bench and you didn't have to rely on him.
I think the answer long term is lavine and/or derozan have to go. Really Carter does also, keon is filling that role.
Sabonis/Jval
??
Keegan
Derozan or lavine/keon
??/monk
You could pick lavine over Monk or derozan, but based on what they give you vs cost, Monk/derozan is the obvious choice for that spot. However my personal opinion is it will be acceptable to move Derozan to a contender and move forward with the younger zach. And zach was your big fox replacement so you are kinda committed to him.
Laravia from my understanding cant be signed by us using the MLE.
So realistically you need to replace at minimum 1 starting forward + a pg in your top 8. You have lavine or derozan + extra picks + carter + MLE to do so.
Thats the best possible way to salvage this team. Gonna give examples but I know some may not like them.
1. Starting type pf. Miles bridges
2. Bigger starting pg who can run an offense. Spencer dinwiddie yuck (not many options)
3. Backup pf. Laravia?
Sabonis (32) /Jval (16)
Bridges(32) /Laravia (16)
Keegan (32) / lavine (16)
Lavine (14) /Keon (30) / monk (4)
Dinwiddie (24) /Monk (24)
People won't like this, but it's at least a bigger team that could be passable defensively and has defined roles.
