What did we learn from pre-season?

Are we trying to play faster? Should Nurkic shoot threes? Is Jake Layman going to be in the rotation? What about Baldwin? Does Stauskas's offense make up for his (lack of) defense? Are we going to make the playoffs?

 

So I missed last nights game, because I was out on a date with my wife.

Heres my take from the others. I dont like Curry and CJ on the court together unless they have a distributor and they’re playing off the ball.

That said I think Curry does look more prepared to get significant minutes than Baldwin, Simons or Trent Jr.

Stauskus / Layman looked better than I expected and I think they will see some bench minutes at the forward spots.

Nurkic is going to be an above average center for us and defensively his impact is great.

Swanigan Im not sure he’s ever going to play significant minutes, Zach well, I still see potential in him but he’s got a lot of developement to do.

Meyers can shoot we all knew this but his defense and rebounding makes him like almost unplayable and when he does play you notice right away how much of a hole is left in the paint

 

All I really learned is PHO sucks and SAC's bigs can't handle Meyers Leonard and Zach Collins.

Actually, I knew the former already. The latter is somewhat surprising, but more of an indictment of SAC's drafting than an endorsement of Leonard's and Collins' talent.

BNM

 

Our offense will be better this year, appears our defense worse.

 

Im more scared our rebounding will take a big hit than I am the defense.

 

If Leonard and Stauskas are actually seeing more than spot minutes....

 

Although I like the Stauskas signing, I like Layman better.

 

For me defense/rebounding (owning the paint/boards) go hand in hand.

 

Its definitely the exclamation mark on a defensive posession.

 

The 2nd team does seem to be trying to shoot quicker.
No Nurk should not be taking ANY 3's. He shouldn't even be standing out there.
Jake better be in the rotation.
Baldwin will get minutes but they won't be consistent.
Stauskas D is not bad enough to keep him on the bench. Not sure it is bad at all. Not great by any means, but not horrible.
No idea if we make the playoffs. Too many decent teams in the west to know at this point.

 

Nothing. Some guys have me intrigued but until they carry the production over to the season it doesn’t matter.

I guess the player that has me most intrigued is Layman. Talent was never a question with him. If he can carry over the assertiveness to the regular season we’ll have a nice rotation player, maybe more.

 

so then you learned nothing.

 

Bingo. How can we judge anything on 5 low intensity, glorified scrimmages when most people want to hold off judgement on a season until we are at least like 30 games into it? Preseason means nothing. It's just a nice time to see guys that will rarely, if ever, play the rest of the season and get over-hyped about what they could do in the future.

 

Yeah get back to me after 15-20 games.

 

Well it's been a long summer OK.

 

Now that i read that response it seems a bit rude. Sorry.
My thinking is also that the preseason was pretty washed down and it will be 10-20 games before i really know much more about this team.

 

Here's what I learned:

1) This stupid offense where we keep handing the ball off to another player over and over again is actually pretty interesting when each of the dudes you're handing the ball to can shoot the 3.

2) Layman might actually make the 3rd year jump.

3) Biebs MIGHT actually help us, and he MIGHT become tradeable.

4) Regardless of how much I like Biggy, and how he has actually had some very good games few here acknowledge, he too often looks like garbage (and that's an understatement).

5) Stauskas is better than I thought.

Based on our offseason, we need a few guys to really improve. I'm a bit more optimistic of this happening after the preseason.

edit: That improvement could come from CJ. He looks stronger, and is embracing contact on his drives.