(Upgrading opinions)
Even if Spida leaves, you won 't tank.
I ran out of Internet from months... now I just can watch games from public wi-fis (mostly at clubs because I like eating, drinking and smoking while I watch games).
I barely watched a bunch of CLECaus games (RRicky is near to be fully cleared to play even back to backs) and just today I could see replayed your game against Hornets.
I'm honestly impressed.
I love DannyTroll Ainge and of course I was expecting something weird... but no near as functional.
You look raw, I won't lie to you... guys still asking themselves, some teammate. some coach or some mopa-gurls what to do next at court (from screening to jump balls) but team shows good collective instincts.
Markkanen still more impactful playing pure SF than any Big position (even that Strecht-4 sh*t).
I know Chris Dunn from his TimberTrolls times. In my opinion, a guy worthy to trust so long you don't ask him more than he can do (stop asking him to be a 3P machine, for instance).
THT is not a combo evolving into a PG at all... in fact
he is quite the opposite:
He is a natural Point Guard forced to play combo (or even forward, at times) because coaches had other supposedly better Point Guards than him (or better shorty ballhandler-scorers faking to be PGs or even all-around playmakers, if we include LeBald and sort) and they would rather use his size, strength and hustle than his run-the-team talents.
He always had those talents and now at Utah you all can see it.
Rudy Guy evolved from a young one-man-army SF to a veteran team-first Center along his career. He always brings good things to the table in whatever stance.
Still not a well formed idea about that pack of intriguing talented younglings you have roaming to and fro... I didn't even learn some of their names (pretty unusual and hard to grasp names, in some cases).
They can apparently play some D... a bit inconsistent to my taste but true D at least and that's enough to me to approve them.
I need to highlight Kessler. I think I know a bit about Centers and what I saw this morning had nothing to do with
just a good game. It was consistently enlightening to me.
I don't think he's getting all the Media noise he deserves. What he does out there is just amazing and nobody told me.
He's inmodestly tall and long.
He's modestly talented.
He's a natural hustler (I love that).
But the actual difference-maker skill in his toolbox is he has a Top-level game awareness rarely seen in a rookie... and even in half the NBA made players.
Too early to tell nothing for sure (let alone after watching him just one game) but if this guy ends up being some All Star level I won't be so surprised as I am now with him being a rookie.
(Addendo after reading his bio:
Pick #22?? It was a scouters' joke to the Media?)