Shakril wrote:ciueli wrote:MoMan24 wrote:Don't understand the Sabonis thing at all. He does not space the floor at all. Take under one 3 pointer a game. Is a horrible defender and rim protector. The only position he can play an under sized 5 man. His fit with Scottie is horrific. He also 3 more years on his contract for 140 million. Unless we are getting a steal I say HELL NO. You don't win with him on your team. None of his teams in OKC, IND or SAC have ever gone past the first round. He gets exposed in the playoffs so bad lol
He was at 2.2 3PTA this season, so you're wrong about his attempts. And he shot nearly 42% on threes this year, he's improved his 3PT% every single year for the last 3 seasons.
Jak is going to get paid next offseason if we don't deal him, I'd rather pay Sabonis what he's getting to be an All-Star level player for 35+MPG and 70-80 games per season than pay Jak $30M+ for 30MPG of work and 50-60 games per season. Throw in Jak being a liability at the FT line and him being unplayable at the end of games and it makes even more sense, we need to upgrade the C position, not just be happy with non-3 point shooters at the starting PF and C positions.
Sabonis is a bad defender, which means, what ever he scores in offense he loses on defense. Jak may not score a lot, but he prevents a lot of scoring, which bottom line is something i rather have in the POs than an offensive only player. Also Jak can play 70 to 80 games a season, but it wasnt necessary last year. Rather let a hurt player heal than rush him back. Especially this season he missed 13 games because of injuries, of which half were precautionary. And even if you want to upgrade from Jak, Sabonis is not the answer - you still need someone that can defend.
The infatuation with the strech 5 is becoming an obsession around here. We had 2 Centers that are non shooting bigs in the Final 4 (Hartenstein & Gobert), one big in Kat that was exposed on defense (parallels to Sabonis), and only Myles Turner that was ok from 3 and good at defense. I really wish people would take into account what actually is happening instead of what they wish is happening. A strech Center is not mandatory to win, Defensive Centers are.
And can we please stop with the nonsense that Jak is unplayable in the 4th? How many times has he prove to you that this is wrong. When it matters, he makes his free throws, unlike RJ or Barnes. And its not like he is shooting many of them. Last year he was shooting 0.8 FTs in the 4th quarter. Dont tell me that this is a problem.
All the teams that went deep into the playoffs this year with a traditional non-3pt shooting C had 4 out players around them, they didn't play other players who also couldn't shoot 3s like we are planning to with Scottie. It won't work, the best teams in the NBA play 4 or even 5 out, both teams in the Finals have stretch Cs and can play 5 out if necessary. That is the present and future, we're headed to the past with a team that regularly goes on extended scoring droughts because smart teams just dare us to punish them from the 3 point line and we can't because many of our rotations only have 2 consistent 3 point shooters on the floor, there's only one dunker spot and Jakob Poletl isn't close to a good enough player to allocate it to him for 30+MPG.
Maybe Sabonis isn't the answer even if he's even available, but Jakob Poeltl + Scottie Barnes sure isn't going to be it either.
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