What's Donte's Ceiling?

[dakomish23]

This. He's in a perfect position to maximize what he can do well. Some great games. A lot of of solid games. Some bad games. High end role player. Which is better than anyone thought. Him and Hartenstein probably saved our season with Grimes crashing & Mitch getting injured.

[Juco24]

Biggest thing for me is that he's NOT egotistical.... he's a team first guy! PG, SG, SF... he doesn't care. 6th man, starter. He just goes out and gets the job done!

I was one who didn't understand the initial signing... that's why I'm not a NBA front office person. Lol

[Juco24]

This. He's in a perfect position to maximize what he can do well. Some great games. A lot of of solid games. Some bad games. High end role player. Which is better than anyone thought. Him and Hartenstein probably saved our season with Grimes crashing & Mitch getting injured.

Serious question... since you mentioned Grimes - do you think the internal Nova brotherhood had anything to do with Grimes poor play? Personally, I don't think so but a buddy told me that he felt as though Grimes allowed Divi and Divi's relationship with the fellas to get into his head and became jealous and was always pressing as opposed to allowing the game to come. Said he felt Grimes was a bit immature. Just curious to see how others view that

[Fat Kat]

This. He's in a perfect position to maximize what he can do well. Some great games. A lot of of solid games. Some bad games. High end role player. Which is better than anyone thought. Him and Hartenstein probably saved our season with Grimes crashing & Mitch getting injured.

Serious question... since you mentioned Grimes - do you think the internal Nova brotherhood had anything to do with Grimes poor play? Personally, I don't think so but a buddy told me that he felt as though Grimes allowed Divi and Divi's relationship with the fellas to get into his head and became jealous and was always pressing as opposed to allowing the game to come. Said he felt Grimes was a bit immature. Just curious to see how others view that

Perhaps, but if a player is that mentally soft, he’s gonna fold at some point anyway. He’s in his third year, and we couldn’t continue to nipple feed him.

[Fat Kat]

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[Juco24]

This. He's in a perfect position to maximize what he can do well. Some great games. A lot of of solid games. Some bad games. High end role player. Which is better than anyone thought. Him and Hartenstein probably saved our season with Grimes crashing & Mitch getting injured.

Serious question... since you mentioned Grimes - do you think the internal Nova brotherhood had anything to do with Grimes poor play? Personally, I don't think so but a buddy told me that he felt as though Grimes allowed Divi and Divi's relationship with the fellas to get into his head and became jealous and was always pressing as opposed to allowing the game to come. Said he felt Grimes was a bit immature. Just curious to see how others view that

Perhaps, but if a player is that mentally soft, he’s gonna fold at some point anyway. He’s in his third year, and we couldn’t continue to nipple feed him.

Exactly... I mean it made some sense but this isn't high school

[blueNorange]

his ceiling atm is the starting 2 guard until they find someone better.

nobody saw this version

[The Lamma]

A not quite as handsome Reggie Miller

Reggie Miller is Gollum with a basketball instead of a ring

[Polk377]

First and foremost he is proving to be a reliable starting SG. Benching Grimes for Donte has changed the season around. 10-8 with Grimes and 23-10 with Donte in the starting lineup. Most importantly he can be a reliable 3rd scoring option to compliment Jalen and Julius. He doesn't need the ball to be effective but can get his own when he needs to and get others involved. This will also be beneficial for OG where he doesn't have to worry much about scoring and can focus more on the defensive end while getting easy baskets on offense.

As far as his full upside, I could see him being a 22 4 5 on 46% shooting and 40% from 3 as a 2nd option behind a star.

Donte is having a career year, but that is a very misleading framing. You’re attributing to DDV starting the improvement that happened after the OG trade; 16-4 since Jan 1st.

To be meaningful, you’d need to compare our record with Grimes starting before the OG trade to our record with DDV starting before the OG…since grimes has no starts since the trade.

And before the OG trade we went 7-6 with Donte starting vs 10-8 with Grimes. DDV is certainly having a better season than Quentin, but our record is a bad way to make that case.

Donte's role has also grew since first being inserted into the starting lineup. Once RJ was gone, he really stepped in as the #3 scorer. So yes, maybe I should have said post trade but the impact is still the same.

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[ScienceOfLosing]

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Role player.

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[SelbyCobra]

4/50.

[Fat Kat]

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[Jeff Van Gully]

i howled

[Jeff Van Gully]

4/50.

steal. our FO some bandits.

leon rose a master scoundrel.

[Jeff Van Gully]

the ceiling is the roof

[The KnicksFix]

Prime Klay Thompson

[DOT]

As someone who was riding the Midvincenzo memes and calling it a bad deal at the start of the season, dude is insanely good right now

Actually might be the best value contract in the NBA, which is wild coming from the same FO that gave Josh Hart a $20 million per year extension.

[WargamesX]

We’re watching it in real time. I don’t think their is another gear.