Clyde_Style wrote:KnixinSix wrote:
Let me clarify some more. His on ball play is very tough on his body. You aren't talking about making him play it significantly more but just a little more to save wear and tear.
In the rotation I posted earlier.
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Line-up (Minutes):
Mitchell Robinson(30), Precious Achiwa (18)
OG (25), Hart(13), Achiwa (10)
Hart (20), OG (8), Okoro(20)
D-Mitch(20), DDV (28)
Brunson(35), D-Mitch(13)
Spidah and Brunson play on the floor together for like 20 out of a possible 48 minutes. Of those 20 Brunson can play off ball saving additional abuse on his body for like 10 of those 20 minutes.
Folks are being way too black and white on this. Its much more nuanced than just Brunson is a great point so another backcourt player would be useless. Brunson can still be the clear alpha of this team and main point guard. And they have the personalities to mesh well together. This team would be SIGNIFICANTLY better with Spidah added to it.
Secondly the other options almost all fit in the too old, too injury prone or simply not available bucket. Could a surprise guy pop up and become available? Possibly. But make no mistake Spida would be an incredible addition and I believe the fit would be excellent for the reasons mentioned above and on other posts.
Your minute distribution is unworkable. Mitchell will want to start and they will both be playing 35-40 MPG.
I think your premise of sharing facilitation duties to be wishful thinking and not grounded in reality. Not trying to be insulting, but you're trying too hard to spin up a speculative use case for something that would never happen. Brunson is the man on this team and DM is not going to take a backseat to him. He's the one that would have to play off the ball.
Aside from that, DM is not a defender you'd want to start next to Brunson. Brunson's D is actually improving, but you should still have a bigger SG starting next to him. Deuce is acceptable as a fill-in at his size because he's a great defender, but DM clearly is not.
It's a bad fit. The team no longer needs DM. That ship has sailed. I wish some of you would get over it, because in terms of roster construction he is redundant and utterly pointless. Plugging in his scoring data doesn't mitigate that one bit and make trading for him any more logical.
If this the FO went and got DM I would support it as a fan due to their superior knowledge and now proven ability to construct a roster, but until that happens I believe this FO would not see DM as a fit any longer.
Lastly, Brunson is the superior player. Back when people were jonesing for DM he was still considered by some to the be alpha player of the two despite being outplayed TWICE already by Brunson in the playoffs. But now the gap is considerable. They are on two entirely different levels.
Gutting our roster in a trade for DM is just a bad idea.
The biggest irony about any of you still wanting to get DM is you already have your superstar player in Brunson. You used to think getting DM would be that guy, but here we are with that guy already and you're still trying to get a guy who is an an inferior version of Brunson to play next to him. Show some appreciation for what you're already got. We need to build around Brunson, not try to duplicate him.