Klomp wrote:winforlose wrote:Klomp wrote:No, the analysis is not just saying that he isn't NBA ready. It is saying he sucks and/or he's a bust based solely on the franchise being patient with his development.
NO ONE realistically thought he should be ready to come in and start and dominate on a Western Conference Finals team, yet that is the expectation placed on him through lazy analysis. It is that ESPN-style lazy analysis that is truly damaging to the league.
Players should not all be judged on the same scale. If Anthony Edwards were judged after his rookie year based solely on being a No. 1 pick, he would be exiled from the league because his rookie season is not as dominant as LeBron James was. That is not much different than what you are doing here. Since he was a Top 10 pick, it means he must dominate in your eyes. You are saying a small 19-year old point guard should have equal expectations to physically dominate summer league as a 25-year old wing is doing. That is not fair to Dillingham at all.
When we traded DLO, we didn’t just trade a player, we traded the salary slot that he represented. Mike was older, on a deal with only one year left, and not the long term PG solution. We already had KAT and Rudy on max deals, and Ant, Jaden, and Naz were all gonna need money. So we were kinda stuck. Then we extended Mike cheap and that salary slot went away. WMJ was supposed to be the solution to the question of PGOF. The problem was WMJ sucked. This left us with a problem and limited solutions. We traded for Dilly to solve that problem. Many, including myself thought this was a bad solution. We said how can you go into 24/25 with only Mike and Dilly at PG. Then we traded KAT, and acquired DDV. We spent all of 24/25 realizing TC failed a third time at PGOF. Now we have no good options at PG 1 or PG 2 and are looking at a wasted year. This is why I want TC fired. He botched our one chance at a balanced roster by trading KAT without bringing back a high end PG. You think PG is overrated, that is your opinion. My opinion is that Dilly is not ready, Mike is not viable anymore, and we are ****ed.
P.S. The Dilly isn’t dominating is in the context of not being ready yet, at least from me.
What is the last word of the acronym PGOF? I thought it meant FUTURE, not FIRST year, but maybe I'm mistaken.
And I don't think I've ever said PG is overrated. I just don't think the skills required from the position in Finch's system match what people normally think of when judging PGs. That's why it needs to be a more nuanced conversation.
We have gone back and forth on that, and you recently started saying PG is different under Finch, but you used to say PG isn’t that important with Finch or overall. Either way, this is the future. The DLO trade was 22/23 and Mike is now 38. If Dilly is the long term answer then we need a short term one. If Dilly is a bust (still very possible,) then we have neither a short or long term solution.
