Frankly, our two minute lineup should just be our starters. We do better IMHO when Robin is in there. That lineup is proven good.
I will admit that if it was a high first round draft pick this year, the trade proposal has a little more merit. I still would not do it, but it is not as crazy as I first thought.
Well, we don't really have the pieces to land a highly paid player without giving up a starter, because all of our bench players are on eco-contacts. So unless another team has a trade exception we can't do it. But if we did, we might be able to land some players from teams looking to cut cost like Deng or Chandler.
Why? Young is shooting 41% from 3pt range this year, which much higher than Batum. He's a very good defender, rebounder, gets steals...
Oh dear. Can he pass like Batum? Batum is leading our team in assists. Can he hit clutch threes and FTs? No, his team hardly ever wins. And I like Young. But our team is perfectly constructed right now. Don't change anything.
I don't think Batum is a good passer, he throws it away a lot. It's just that in this offense, he passes a lot more than he used to.
Why do you think the Nets are so eager to give up one of their few bright spots on the team this year?
He can get too loose with the ball but Batum is arguably our best distributor. He almost averages as many assists as Lillard and he doesn't get the ball near as much.
Dude? Yes, he has freedom to pass more under Terry Stotts, as he should, because he is an ELITE passer for a SF. Yes, he tries for highlight reel passes and ends up making some atrocious TO's at times, but Batum is an excellent passer. In fact he's a motherfuckin' pimp!
Batum has made some nice passes this season, but he's made an equal share of really bad ones. Swinging the ball around the perimeter, or hitting LA on a pick and pop are not extremely difficult passes to make in the NBA. When Batum tries to force a pass inside, we all cringe a little bit. He's wracking up assists because of his role in the offense, but it's not like he's Magic Johnson out there.
You know who's a good passer for his position? That Meyers Leonard chap. He shoots and passes almost like he played guard at some point.
It makes sense if they don't want to pay him $5.5 million in 2017. I would not do it from our end but for a team that could use Tony Allen as a starter something along those lines could make sense.
He's the closest thing we have to Magic. He's the only player on our team who consistently makes passes that lead to lay-ups or dunks. As you said, passing the ball around the perimeter isn't difficult - anyone can do that; that's what Lillard, Wes, and LMA do. But if you take away the only player on our team with court vision and the ability to use that court vision to make passes that lead to an automatic 2 points (or shooting foul) then that's going to make the game that much harder for us. We so rarely score in the paint, and when we do it's almost always set up by Nic. I would hate to see our points in the paint go lower than they already are.
There is zero chance we trade anyone from our starting lineup so I don't see why it has been a part of any discussion. Might as well discuss who would be best here, LeBron, Paul George, Durant, or the Brow. I'd take George because he is young and plays on both sides of the ball.
