Hal14 wrote:captain green wrote:I'm more interested in seeing IME's coaching strategy, substitution management, then players usage and temperament. I feel like our 8 to 10 is set tatum,brown,smart,timelord, horford, richardson,grondo,pp,kanter, nesmith. And I feel we know what can't will can't do and if langford can not be Mr. glass ? is getting old. That's 12 and then the new add ons will be who I want to replace can't and glass. I'll say I'm rooting for Matthews though I also feel right now we wasted the two way with Hauser so I hope he actually balls out. Also rooting for Parker to remain on the team. So ya let's go
I still don't understand why apparently the consensus is that Nesmith is comfortably ahead of Langford on the depth chart.
Langford is a better defender, better at creating off the dribble, better play maker for others. Rebounding they're about even. I'd say Langford is a little better in terms of finishing at at the rim and through contact.
Defensively Langford was a top 3 defender on our team last year. Nesmith was an average defender - he showed flashes of being really good defensively but there was also quite a few times where he'd be out of place or make silly fouls. First half of the year Nesmith looked like a deer in head lights, not knowing where he was supposed to be, on either side of the ball.
Only thing Nesmith does better is shoot 3's which obviously is very important, but langford has closed the gap significantly with improved shooting towards end of last year's reg season, in playoffs and in summer league. I believe that between last few games of reg season, playoffs and summer league he shot like 38 or 39% from 3, which is comfortably over the NBA league average of 36.7%. Nesmith had some hot shooting in summer league but he was also pretty inconsistent, with some games (and stretches of games) where he went ice cold.
Everyone says Langford is made of glass, but a decent chunk of the games he missed were with COVID, he also missed a good chunk of time with wrist surgery (so did Jaylen Brown, is he made of glass?). Not to mention, Nesmith missed 1/2 the season his sophomore year of college to injury - Langford played in a higher % of his college games than Nesmith.
IMO they're entering camp about even on the depth chart, especially since we have a new coach who is approaching things with a clean slate.
I wouldn't say equal buying my own eyes and displayed talent sure I'll agree langford could be more versatile, but nesmith has shown both hustle on d and the 3 and hasn't been as injured, langford is slowly getting washed downstream so someone else can find and polish up. Langford and can't will last chance with this team is this year imo Nesmith is slightly higher not leaps and bounds
