Predict how the rest of the season goes...

Watford watch hit a speedbump in Atlanta.
Hawks were ripping balls away from him, and Trendon was lofting up passes to anything that moved. Followed up with typical flat footed defensive effort:

6 turnovers in 23m, 0 blk/stl

 

'Flat footed' is generous. I swear he got scored on every time his guy took a shot. No resistance. But hard to be critical of a 2nd yr undrafted guy. He's been put in a position where he won't succeed as our backup C.

 

That has been the issue for a while. So many players playing out of position. Outside of Dame and Nurk, who has been in their proper spot?

• Ant - looked much better as the lead guard than playing off of Dame as an undersized SG
• Hart - too small for a SF
• Grant - doesn't rebound enough for a PF
• Little - forced to play PF at times....yuck
• Reddish - SF....finally, someone playing 'their spot'
• Eubanks - too small to be a center even though I LOVE his heart and effort
• Watford - too small to play center
• Sharpe - shouldn't be playing SF

Just a recipe for abject failure....which was maybe the idea this year. The fact they didn't get ANY of the size that was available at the Trade Deadline tells me they didn't really want to compete for a Playoff spot.

 

Everything in this post is more than reasonable. Spot on.
And the final conclusion as well. The highest priority is fixing the roster for the best chance to contend with Dame. Increasing Ant’s value and the feasibility question with Dame. Seeing how good Sharpe can be. Who stays and who goes.

The Picks — five 2nds for the summer > Wiseman, now. Wiseman could or would have meant more wins, now, but that improvement (or patching the position) wasn’t the likely plan 1B.

Don’t have the draft capital to get a big deadline deal done? Plan 1B from the deadline likely got done with picks to free the future 1st round picks (thanks Olshey). We cannot rely on Dame single-handedly getting the team into the 1st round to convey it to Chicago. Getting picks for GP2 wasn’t the plan all along, but it’s a good pivot — hard-capping MLE spending to get 5 2nds? Good.

I see Cronin hitting singles and hit-and-run and a bunt moving runners along … all to swing away. He likely got one with Sharpe. This summer is huuuuge! It’s go for it … hit or … missing is not an option. (Though Nurk’s Trade-sized Contract looks less good than it did before, having it for matching dollars still matters.)