To me it all comes down to ego. Sharpe will be a starter. One of Ant or Simons won't be. If the one who isn't can swallow their ego then it could be a very good rotation. I have to admit I wanted it originally to be Scoot/Sharpe starting. But, I think Ant and Sharpe both have enough skills to run the offense without a pure PG on the court. And Scoot with the second unit looks decent. I just don't believe Ant will ever accept a role off the bench. Like CJ.
Who is our Draymond? The Warriors were able to succeed because Draymond is a freak power forward who plays like a point guard and runs the offense and defense. He’s a nut job but he allowed them to essentially have two shooting guards. Curry isn’t a traditional point guard. He runs off screens like Reggie Miller. Simons is a ball dominant lead guard. That’s not how Curry or Thompson play.
For the rest of this year for sure with Scoot coming off the bench and perhaps into next yr as well depending on how he improves. I would move Brogdon and roll with Ant/Shae/Scoot. Seems a fairly easy and common sense decision.
I question the most if Scoot is a rotational NBA player. As others posted - he looks more like Mudiay or Dennis Smith Jr than he does Rose/Wall/etc. Of course nothing is certain at his young age, but I expected much more from him. Until Scoots performance is at a starters level the question is irrelevant. Simons and Sharpe are both starting quality players now. If all 3 becomes starting level players we can see how they actually play together on the court. Maybe one can succeed on the bench or maybe we are better going with only two. We're a long ways, likely years, from being at that crossroads.
Shaedon should watch how Booker get his shots. Stop at the FT line for an easy 2 points. He can do it
Agree. Why talk about how scoot may co exist with Simons etc when he hasn't even shown that he's a starting quality PG yet. Also, many of the top prospects in next year's draft are PGs. What if we pass on one because "we already have Scoot". Chris Paul 2.0?
Since their combined salaries are just a little north of $40 million (slightly under Dame's salary for this year), I'd have to say no. Ayton, Grant and Brogdon, however, total $82.5 million. Seems like one or two of those guys have to go.
Those were kind of rare instances and Harden was really young and wasn’t a 6th man for long. Too much persuasion by agents these days. Plus I think a team needs to be very good to justify it
He's not a "point forward" but he can handle the ball, drive, break his man down 1 on 1. He doesn't have the rebounding ability to be a PF. He's not a perfect wing, but he's pretty good. If you were building a team, and were offered a player that was 6-8, athletic, good defender, shoots 40+% from 3, and scores over 20 ppg on 60% TS, you'd take it in a heart beat.
Thank you. I am not sure why we want to accumulate draft picks if the goal is not to land a quality wing/forward in the near future.
Klay is 6'7 and has spent plenty of time at SF; and, until his injuries he was a good defender who could easily switch onto the longer SF's and stretch-4's besides that, I said "major talent & usage". Warriors have had Draymond; a major talent, at least until lately. A perfect complement to the splash brothers who averaged over 7 assists 5 times and over 6 assists 8 times. He has been all-NBA twice; a DPOY; and an all-NBA 1st & 2nd team defense 9 times and of course the Warriors won two of their championships with Kevin Durant; won another with SF Andre Iguodala winning the finals MVP; and have had either Harrison Barnes or Andrew Wiggins at SF since their championship run started. And a 6'7 PG in Shaun Linvingston so no, not a chance that Scoot/Ant/Sharpe can be equivalent to Curry/Klay/Durant/Draymond
If all 3 are good enough to be on max contracts, that's a good problem to have. But I'd say you worry about that 4 years from now when it's a possibility, versus year 1 of Scoots rookie contract.
Get a healthy Ayton and Grant along with Scoot/Sharpe/Simons and we can see what the team looks like. Right now it's just a lot of guessing and watching Simons take over which might not be the case with Grant and Ayton healthy.
