Winejk wrote:Easymoney wrote:Trading for Hield is a gamble I am willing to take with Noel because our team upside would just be so much better if Hield is even 75% of the shooter he was in college. As many here already know, I am a huge advocate for building this team from the inside out. I feel that incredible talent and depth down low will open up the 3pt shot for us to get efficient looks from the behind the line. A guy like Hield could make teams pay for doubling us inside and on Simmons drives.
He will be getting 5-7 open looks a night from us that he didn't get in college. If he could continue to shoot around the 44% range for us, we'd really be able to make teams pay. I also like his ability to shoot off the dribble and I think it can used off screens from our big bodies like Embiid, Okafor, and Simmons in a similar way GSW do for Curry. I imagine a screen from Embiid on these smaller guys will be devastating and give Buddy great open looks.
I understand the fit Hield would provide with the Sixers taking kick out 3 pointers. I get that. But what makes him better than other shooters? We have Hollis Thompson who shoots 40% from 3 and everyone thinks Thompson is a bum. He doesn't play defense. He can't drive to the basket. He can't make a play.
If Hield is 75% of the shooter he was in college, he would shoot .343 from the 3 point line. Pedestrian by NBA standards. If he shot around the 44% range as you suggest that would make him on Stephen Curry's level, basically the best shooter in the game. Are you going to assume Hield is going to turn into one of the top shooters in the league? That's a big leap of faith IMO.
But people say Hield has developed his dribbling and driving. Yeah well he's going to be playing against better - faster, stronger, bigger - players in the NBA. Will he be able to drive and finish on them?
I'm not saying Hield couldn't turn into what you think he can, but it is not like it is a no brainer that he will. There are enough doubts and mitigating factors that make me wonder what the big deal is.He is not such a lock to be great for me to give up Noel.
When i said 75% I didn't mean that literally. My bad lol.
Worse case scenario he's a 40% 3pt shooting guard in our starting lineup. I value that far more for our team than Noel being our backup C. If Hield shot 44% from 3 in the NBA on our team, he wouldn't be on Curry's level if you used context when evaluating him. Curry draws the most attention on his team and makes a lot of contested 3s. Hield, on the our team, would be getting a lot more open looks because of the attention Embiid/Okafor/Simmons would draw. As a result, I would not put him on Curry's level if he shot 44% for our team.
Noel is a nice piece, but not so good that I wouldn't give him up to make Embiid/Okafor/Simmons work. If we got Hield we would already have atleast 1 guy in the backcourt who could make teams pay for doubling. In next years draft I would use our picks to add the same depth to our backcourt that we have in our front court and I would draft as many great shooters as possible.
