2023-24 Roster. Who stays? Who goes?

So I’m really curious.

Does the team think that

Murray > Watford

Badji > Eubanks

We are losing players and it doesn’t seem like we are replacing them. There is no way Dame is happy.

 

Tired of people talking about what Lillard wants.

 

That’s pretty much what he talked about.

 

I respect your opinion, but we started the season 9-3, and was 1st in the West.
You don't know that Scoot won't help next year. If Scoot was Tim Duncan, would you say the same?
Don't care any more what Dame wants.

 

Still don't care if Dame is happy.

 

Tim Duncan was a power forward and he stepped onto a team that needed a power forward. Scoot is a point guard and he was drafted by a team with one of the best point guards in the game.

 

How likely do you think it is that Scoot Henderson is an all-star as a rookie, ala Tim Duncan?

Luka Doncic wasn't even an all-star as a rookie, fwiw.

 

TD was a center who moved to PF because the Spurs had a pretty decent one in The Admiral. I'm sure we'll make it work, too.

 

Tim is widely considered by many to be the best power forward of all time.

 

Really? You don't say?

At Wake he played center and was a back to the basket player. He evolved to fit what the Spurs needed to work with Robinson. Scoot and Dame can do the same.

 

Murray is more talented than Watford. Of course, not as experienced yet, but not that far behind.
To play actual, real game center, Badji is better even though Eubanks worked his ass off. 5" taller, 30+ lbs heavier, much larger wingspan even though raw as hell.

 

So is this where we're at right now

Dame/Scoot
Simons/Sharpe/Keon
Thybulle/Nas/Rupert
Grant/Murray/Walker
Nurk/Badji/JBJ

If we can move Simons and sign Plumlee, that would help balance things out. I could see us also making a play for Oubre.

Dame/Scoot
Sharpe/Thybulle/Keon
Oubre/Nas/Rupert
Grant/Murray/Walker
Nurk/Plumlee/Badji

That's a semi-balanced roster. Not in love with trying to straddle two timelines, and I don't think this team is good enough to do anything more than maybe the 8th seed. Best case and really the only way this team does more than an 8th seed is if Sharpe and Scoot pop. I'd love to get a lockdown defender at three. Let Dame/Sharpe/Grant be the scorers. I wonder if we see Thybulle as our small forward. Slide him in at small forward. Give Sharpe his backup minutes.

PG - Dame 34 / Scoot 14
SG - Sharpe 30 / Scoot 18
SF - Thybulle 35 / Sharpe 5 / Nas 8
PF - Grant 35 / Murray 13
C - Nurk 28 / Plumlee 20

Dame - 34 minutes
Scoot - 32 minutes
Sharpe - 35 minutes
Thybulle - 35 minutes
Grant - 35 minutes
Nurk - 28 minutes
Plumlee - 20 minutes
Murray - 13 minutes
Nas - 8 minutes

That's a 9 man rotation. We can shave a few minutes off Grant or Thybulle as needed. I think Keon/Nas/Rupert/Walker are the guys who sit at the end of the bench.

 

Voted Thybulle and Grant.

 

Not sure WHAT they think, but this is what they SHOULD think

 

Cronin sitting on his ass doing jack shit.
Any of the basement dwellers on here could have done at least as good a job as him this offseason.

At this point I expect this shit:
Dame (35) / Scoot (13)
Ant (34) / Scoot (14)
Sharpe (32) / Nas or Rupert or Murray or Thybulle or shitty signing (16)
Grant (35) / Murray (13)
Nurk (30) / Shitty signing (18)

Poverty franchise.
Stuck in mediocrity.

 

Ok.... so....

PG: Scoot/Simons?
SG: Simons?/Thybulle?
SF: Sharpe?/Rupert?
PF: Grant/Murray
C: ????

Not sure what our rotation looks like on day one, but I'm trying to get minutes for these players:

Scoot
Sharpe
Rupert
Murray
Walker
Little
Thybulle
Keon

I want to see if Keon/Little/Walker are worth our time. If they aren't, you move on.

 

Why? He's 26