VDT wrote:NoDopeOnSundays wrote:VDT wrote:
D'angelo is almost textbook example of someone that due to his mentality and skillset needs to have the ball in his hands if you are going to get sufficient value from him especially when he is on a max contract (although i doubt he is worth it).
That's not true at all, he had a lot of big games in which Dinwiddie or Levert also had big games, he's a very good catch and shoot player but when Levert went down he had to play more with the ball in his hands. He's a combo guard that can play off the ball or on, he's not particularly elite at either, but good at both. He's still young enough that he could become an good to great isolation scorer, especially when you look around the league at young PGs and see that he's the best iso-scorer under 24.
If i am not mistaken the Nets tried not to play D'Angelo together with Dinwiddle and Levert.
In the end even if his shooting this year is not an outlier, which it could be, it is hard to justify paying a max contract to a guy that is not a good defender, is not efficient and he will have to share the ball with another 2-3 players turning him into a spot up shooter for a large part of the game. Perhaps more importantly i dont see how this will work in terms of chemistry in the team. I dont think D'Angelo wants such a role, i dont think that Simmons wants to play off ball and the same same basically for Butler, Embiid and Harris. It is not hard to get in a situation like the Celtics this year where each player played for his own stats.
That was mainly a problem because the young guys on the Celtics (Brown, Rozier, and Tatum) all are playing for their next (first) big money contract and had to give up usage to a gimpy Gordon Hayward who wasn't worthy of it, and Kyrie who is a selfish ball hog.
That won't be a problem here as everyone will have their money already.
