So, given the choice between Marshall and Beal or Lowry and Evans, who would I prefer? I think I'd take the rookies. I'm in swing for the fences mode. Lowry and Evans are good, could potentially make a top-10 guard pair--but neither are real difference-makers, IMO.
Add me to this list. Go big or go home. Evans and/or Lowry don't move the championship needle IMO (well maybe Lowry?) and both would just take up more cap room so you might as well try to get as good or better production for cheaper.
Ditto. Do we have the cap space for Dragic plus a second good Free Agent? If so, then I'd rather do that and keep our two lotto picks.
This may be nothing but at the time I found it very odd for Chad Buchanan to be courtside at the Kings/Blazer game last week (in Sacramento)....
I like Evans. He may not be a 3pt threat, but he is a reasonable poor man's Brandon Roy. He's coming off a season where he was hurt and still has game. They've got Fredette and Thomas to pick up his minutes. Jason Thompson is misused by that team, too.
I wouldn't give up a lottery pick for Evans. There are many many reasons for this but a few big ones. He will demand big money and we will only have for one year. He doesn't play D and is a horrible 3 point shooter something we can't have if the PG we get isn't a good 3 shooter. Also the headcase part without insane talent makes me hesitant.
Rookie of the Year. http://www.basketball-reference.com/awards/awards_2010.html#roy Okay who's the Minny mini-me clown who voted for Flynn.
The current version of Tyreke Evans is a great place to start, but nowhere to be ending. By that I mean I could see acquiring him for cheap and seeing if he can develop a jumpshot, with the thought that a year or two from now he's either an adequate championship-caliber SG, or he's gained more value as trade bait. But I wouldn't put him high on my list of priorities, and I'd only go after him if we can't land a Deron Williams-level talent.
I think he could be valuable to this team IF he can accept the right role for this team and that's going to be tough with the environment that he came from. And he also would have to have the right coach to get the best out of him and we have no idea who that is going to be at this point. But I agree if would have to be for the right price and that is very unlikely to happen.
That's the guy! I couldn't remember his name. Imagine him saying, "I'm voting for Jonny Flynn as Rookie of the Year."
I just think this is the lowest his value has been since entering the league. The guy can ball and would be an upgrade for us. I say make a play for him.
I agree. He'd instantly be our best player. Aldridge could return to his natural submissive role as a #2 complementary follower, not a #1 leader.
Looking at that roster he really hasn't played with any quality vets since coming into the NBA. Hypothetically speaking, the PG you'd want next to him would have to be planned in the way we paired Roy up with Blake -- ie a shooter. Tyreke, like Roy, is a ball-dominant SG. That would make Dragic even more important to sign.
Always hard to tell when your joking and your not. Flipped a coin came up heads so this time i'm assuming your not. Evans is not on the same level as LA talent wise and I don't think He will ever be a top 25 player in the NBA.
