Olshey press confernce

I didn't watch or listen but that would be a stupid question. A better approach IMO would be to acknowledge that Dame is untouchable, then ask about the remaining roster. Such as, say CJ has the most trade value on the team and mention the size of his contract for trade purposes. Then let Olshey riff on his "both teams played hard" vagueness and cliches.

 

CJ is not a bench shooter. CJ is still one of the most potent bucket getters in the league. One series didn't change that. Look at the dudes numbers from the regular season this year. There are teams that need perimeter scoring in their starting lineups. The Knicks are the easiest one to point out and who I think CJ will likely start next season on but there are other teams as well. So yeah neither Norm or CJ are bench players. Norm is a solid two way player and CJ is an elite bucket getter.

 

I'm talking about the Nets, the Bucks and probably the Sixers.

 

Keeping cj ensures the team will not move forward. Dame will be forced to ask for a trade. His legacy is in Neil's hands, not where you want to be imho.

 

Thank you for that perspective.

 

I'd say it was a product of the injuries to Nurk and Collins more than Terry's ability to get a team to play defense. The defense once Nurk was back was about midlevel instead of near the bottom of the league. Collins would have helped even more. But there's no point in really debating that anymore since Terry's been sent packing.

 

Not so sure? Now if you said "How easy it is to be a dick" i would agree wholeheartedly.

 

Yeah he backtracked that quote big time talking about everyone on the roster being on the table and wanting to find a second superstar to pair with Dame, even though that's hard to do.

To me when watching the entire news conference, that quote was saying that we have those guys locked up and nothing can take that away from us... so Olshey was saying he's in control of those players. It was about showing strength but the rest of the news conference made it sound like anything but permanency.

 

definitely a shot at Stotts lol, especially when you consider his answer about simons later in the presser about opportunity and consistent minutes. He also made it seem like he didn’t agree with how Nas was, or more specifically wasn’t, used

 

Hope you right, we need moves

 

I mean, it's a mix of both. No one forced Terry to play both Melo/Kanter together till the end of the season. Collins would have helped break up the Melo/Kanter vortex, but I don't believe it would have altered the course of the season.

 

"elite bucket getters" don't shit the bed being defending by Austin Rivers & Monte Morris

CJ's career TS% is .553. That's about the NBA average which is miles from elite. His eFG% isn't close to elite either

 

I don’t think that’s true. I don’t think anyone would say this is one of the best rosters in the NBA.

It’s an above average roster that gets below average results for the talent. Definitely has its flaws.

In other words, we should be able to contend when other teams suffer injuries to key rotational pieces (like this year). When others are healthy, probably not.

Jazz, injured.
Nuggets, injured.
Suns, injured.
Clippers, injured.

Having a defense worse than teams tanking should exemplify the “below average results” part.

furthermore, saying melo on the roster is a complete bailout of Stotts. Stotts shouldve benched his ass just like he did DJJ. But it’s clear what Stotts does and does not value.

Roster can definitely use improvement but to act like Stotts maximized his roster is completely laughable.

 

And it did. He got in foul trouble as soon as he was asked to actually play this way.

 

What Olshey heard was the crowd booing CJ and just two games before the crowd chanting NOR MAN POW ELL Clap Clap Clap
No he isn't stupid at all.

 

somebody just said it in this thread a few posts back

 

Agreed.
Because the next GM, if he wasn’t a complete dumbass, would fire Stotts as his first move.

 

He was asked to not only guard the league mvp one on one, but he was also asked to cover up all the mistakes made on the perimeter. The hedging wasn’t a full time strategy. Drops were still mixed in there. This team relied on him too much defensively. I’d love to see how many other centers could handle the defensive responsibility he had on his plate. He’s a good defender, but he’s not Gobert. Shit even Gobert would’ve struggled covering for everyone.

 

Funny how Spoelstra did exactly the same thing with Jones last season and Miami made it to the finals...

 

Agree. The point though was that there was a reason he was not hedging full time and he was not asked to switch more. On this team with the way it is constructed he got in foul trouble quickly when teams took advantage of the flaws.