VinBaker6 wrote:I haven't seen a single report about him so far. That tells you a lot.
I thought Philly would've been a good fit. He could play beside Embiid and Okafor, but Colangelo threw so much money to Amir. Missed opportunity I think.
PPatt was a solid bench player - to the point where he was relied upon heavily there - but had trouble with Cleveland for whatever reason. In 2015-16 he led the team in % of minutes versus bench units and I wouldn't be shocked that changed much this year.
The one thing I'll wonder was how effective the KL-DD-Carroll-PPatt-JV lineup would be if they started those guys for the season.
That lineup was the fourth best lineup in the NBA per net rating for any 5-man combo that had played at least 100 minutes together. Offensive rating: 129, Defensive rating: 102.2, Net rating: 26.8 - all in 147 minutes.
It's also the closest the team went 4-out and 1-in regularly, which worked here but it's hard to commit to fully because DD has limited range. KL-Powell-Carroll-PPatt-JV played 64 minutes together for example, and had a net rating of 23.2 lol. There was always something there with that play style but one that was pretty much ignored by Casey (maybe another year of the offense tanking in the playoffs is the wake up call the guy should've had years ago lol?).
Lastly, I don't know where else to put this, but Casey ruined the development of PPatt's ability to create for others because he made his role too rigid. We focus a lot on JV on this topic which is more than fair but PPatt had all the skills when he first got here to be a distributor - from his passing-to FG% for front court players since his Sacramento days, to his assist percentage from the elbow dwindling from a more impressive rate in his first year here to the eye test where he does a decent job dropping it off from a drive - and then the team went overboard with the ball handler possessions that it took away the strategic use of using younger players like PPatt to grow their game during the season.