Another thing that pissed me off at the press conference... the first thing Neil said to defend and gloat about these signings was how great they fit with Evan Turner... so now we are building around Even freakin Turner... he is doubling down on his biggest mistake... this guy will never admit he is wrong... unbelievable
A 2nd unit with Collins, Biggie, Curry, Stauskas (all can shoot the ball) and Turner as a play maker does make sense. A 2nd unit with inconsistent shooters or non shooters (Ed) with Turner - is not a great fit.
The whole point of the Crabbe trade was to be in a position where if they underachieved at the trade deadline (which they were at the time), they could easily duck the tax (which they did). Then this summer the plan was to go all-in. Getting swept out of the playoffs certainly put a huge damper on going all-in though. They weren't going to use the exception during last season unless it was the difference between a deep playoff run or a 1st round exit. After the season Olshey admitted that strategy was too conservative and he should've been more aggressive. So I'll once again say that he has 19 days to make good on saying this team needs vets with playoff experience. Until that point he hasn't lied or misled about the TPE.
Ed Davis was never brought in to be a shooter, he was brought in to do exactly what he did, rebound on the offensive and defensive end. To say that we looked at Ed and he didn't fit with what we want to do because he can't shoot doesn't make sense because if that were the case then Meyers would have gotten his playing time. If the argument is that Ed hurts our spacing and Meyers doesn't then why didn't we just play Meyers?
In 19 days you’re going to be telling me how dumb I am or I will be expecting you to go to town on Olshey either way I’m good !
Was bothering me throughout the entire press conference, but I finally figured out who Seth Curry reminded me of--Ludacris. Specifically how he looks in the Fast and Furious movies.
From what I've read NO wants Zach to play closer to the basket. Zach and Ed played well together but it forced Zach to play more on the perimeter so that Ed could be in the paint setting screens/rebounding. So maybe we'll see more of a Zach/Biggie frontcourt off the bench? Defense from Biggie is a big question mark.
Well what’s he going to say about a guy currently on the team? “Unfortunately we still have Evan Turner, he has been terrible”
I know what you mean. His moves so far are so small, they're practically invisible. Stop batting your eyelashes innocently. When you recount history from his slant, you know perfectly well that you're defending him.
