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I made the observation that Jaylen Nowell should probably learn a foreign language as he will most probably play overseas next season. That doesn't signify that he couldn't eventually play in the NBA, but he needs to develop basketball aspects beyond streaky shooting.

coolcono wrote:I made the observation that Jaylen Nowell should probably learn a foreign language as he will most probably play overseas next season. That doesn't signify that he couldn't eventually play in the NBA, but he needs to develop basketball aspects beyond streaky shooting.

This seems like an inelegant phrasing.

I would think it better to focus on his game if that's what's deficient, rather than than guess the language of his next team (if indeed it is abroad, and non-English) playing a game created and still somewhat dominated by an English-speaking powerhouse, in a world where English is the lingua franca.

Fwiw, with little expertise on Nowell I think it's probably not that common to go from circa 1250 (1252 here) or above minutes to out of the league (one I recall was Tyrone Nesby on the Wizards, don't know if there was a story there) i.e. not by choice or injuries, though box-wise it's clearly a step back from the prior year, but on the other hand career box composites don't seem to indicate someone wildly out of their depth in the NBA ... which would then edge us towards the question (as lower stats players are probably playing fewer minutes, and as highlighted Nowell's played quite a bit) ... is the intent to focus on players playing above a certain amount (otherwise it's just asking at the least productive players on the far bench end of the roster) if so a minute baseline might help shape discussion towards what OP wants.

For the Clippers, it's Marcus Morris. Lue was giving this dude 30 minutes per game and the last time he even scored 20 points was in November. By the end of the season, him even scoring 10 points felt miraculous. And it's not like he was contributing in other ways, like defense or rebounding. He's unplayable if he can't score. On a team full of old slow players, he looked like the oldest and slowest.

MartinToVaught wrote:For the Clippers, it's Marcus Morris. Lue was giving this dude 30 minutes per game and the last time he even scored 20 points was in November. By the end of the season, him even scoring 10 points felt miraculous. And it's not like he was contributing in other ways, like defense or rebounding. He's unplayable if he can't score. On a team full of old slow players, he looked like the oldest and slowest.

And y’all really had Covington on the bench

MartinToVaught wrote:For the Clippers, it's Marcus Morris. Lue was giving this dude 30 minutes per game and the last time he even scored 20 points was in November. By the end of the season, him even scoring 10 points felt miraculous. And it's not like he was contributing in other ways, like defense or rebounding. He's unplayable if he can't score. On a team full of old slow players, he looked like the oldest and slowest.

Some of the slates of play he got against Phoenix in R1 were just brutal to watch.

Most Memphis fans I know have been very happy the team won’t bring back Dillon Brooks “under any circumstances”

Quicker to list the Blazers who played in April and who will be in the NBA next year.

For the Wizards, it's last year's 1st round pick Johnny Davis and one of our previous year's 1sts, Isaiah Todd neither of whom was even good starter quality in the G league. AT least for Davis it was his 1st year and he had some injury issues.

Half the team wouldn't make the roster of these playoffs teams as LA and Phoenix are showing benching Ross and Bamba