There's nothing flukish about being the worst defensive starting back court in the NBA for 1208 games. Dame and CJ are both great on offense. It's pretty clear that their games on O aren't complementary either, they step on each others toes all of the time but that hasn't been the case the last 2 games but I guess I shouldn't get too excited about that because that probably is the fluke. Acting like Dame and CJ have made us world beaters during their time together instead of realizing they've been a liability is a huge problem but not with most of the fan base. It's been the biggest problem with Olshey first, then Stotts, then CJ and finally Dame. I don't need James Harden to split these two up. If we had a GM that thought with his head instead of some combination of his ego and loyal heart Gary Trent would be enough to break up this back court.
Not after Trent's big game yesterday. I think Olshey has been trying to sell them on Simons but they will insist on Trent.
with CJ making 30-35m a year for the next 4yrs, who is available? Dame, GTJ, RoCo, (new starting PF?), Nurk
yeah I wonder what the stats are for Dame and CJ (vs league averages or other star players) at the end of half or games where they do the one man ISO thing
the thing with Dame and CJ is that in the vast majority of examples they are less than the sum of their parts. Dame plays better without CJ - most cases CJ plays better without Dame - most cases they aren't complimentary on the floor to the level they should be, mostly cause they are v. similar in play style/positioning/attack/etc from what ive seen anyways.
