MGB8 wrote:Dresden wrote:I think people are being way too negative on Simonivic. He's 7' tall, can rebound, can finish with either hand, can put the ball on the deck and drive by people, is a decent passer, he's relatively mobile, has decent strength, and seems to know how to play the game. I can't see why he won't be able to get some minutes on the Bulls this year, even with the addition of Drummond. I think we'll be much improved in the paint this year with Drummond, Simonivic and Vuc all playing.
People for some reason get off on being negative, and pretending they have some near certain knowledge on how a player is going to develop. For instance, Marko’s athleticism is perfectly comparable to a huge number of NBA bigs, Zeller, Plumlee, Kaminsky, Nurkic, Vuc, RoLo, BroLo, Dieng, Valenciunas, Adams, Portis, Dedmond, etc. heck, Jokic isn’t particularly athletic - it’s the skills. Niko wasn’t all that athletic. Predicting where a 20 year old or 22 year old will end up…. huge variance, and can only speculate and give what you think are the odds breakdown,.. and then with any degree of basis only after you see a good amount of game film from the NBA, not college, not summer league…
The discussions remind me of the many posters on this forum who insisted it was ludicrous to think Jimmy Butler would ever be 75% the player that Luol Deng would be. So certain they were… and so very, very wrong. I mean, Jimmy had not much in stats in his first couple years, not that explosive, short wingspan for height…
Yeah...no. I just share my opinions on how I see them, positive or negative. I don't claim to have certain knowledge and I would love to be proven wrong on Marko. I'm not going to lie and give a different opinion just to be more positive for positivity's sake.
I've been optimistic about Terry and I have plenty of ammo to be negative on him if I wanted to, but I'm not, because I have actual reasons to be optimistic about him other than positivity for positivity's sake.
The problem isn't people who have pessimistic views on certain players. Those are generally the realists. The problem is people who think everyone should have positive opinions on every player and get mad when other people don't. If someone is optimistic about every player and gets mad at others for not being positive, then they're not being objective, they're being a homer.
You have a differing opinion on Marko than I do. You're bullish on him, I'm bearish on him. So what? Deal with it. This isn't a hivemind, people are going to have differing opinions. For what it's worth, I hope you're right and I'm wrong.
