BK_2020 wrote:cl2117 wrote:BK_2020 wrote:He's a chunky guy who shoots threes and plays mediocre defense. That's a valuable role but far from incredibly valuable. If he was incredibly valuable, he would've been locked up with a 5 year max.
He's played the 4th most minutes on the team (5th most per game), he shoots the same % from 3 as Hauser and he can guard in the paint and on the perimeter mediocrely. He also showed up big time in the post-season last year (although admittedly not in the Finals, but that was the case for a lot of guys). That's incredibly useful.
He's not a star, nor does he have that kind of potential, but he's not a bum either. It's a spectrum. A team's sixth man can be incredibly valuable, you don't have to be a starter or a star.
When he gets overpaid his relative overall value will decrease, but his on court value will still be there. And that's my point. Yes, overpaying him will be painful for ownership, but his on court value will still be there and because we have everyone locked up for the most part him getting overpaid won't preclude us from running it back unless Wyc & co refuse to foot the bill.
I guess it's a matter of style. I tend to think words like "incredibly" or "elite" should mean what they actually say, instead of being placeholders for "good," "decent," "useful."
Not necessarily referring to these exchanges, but I gotta say, superlatives are starting to lose their luster due to overuse and over-reliance on hyperbole/exaggeration just to give people's takes & narratives more pop. It's the same at the lower end of the spectrum, where most are called garbage, trash, horrible, useless, unplayable, etc.
