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OKC #3 and Hou #5? I don't see how he can rank OKC ahead. CP3 > PG13, and he appears to not be a one year rental. We also got Harden to extend this summer and Westbrook still hasn't signed.

OKC also got rid of Oladipo's contract.
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OKC #3 and Hou #5? I don't see how he can rank OKC ahead. CP3 > PG13, and he appears to not be a one year rental. We also got Harden to extend this summer and Westbrook still hasn't signed.


I think you're looking at it wrong though. They're not saying okc will be better than houston this season. They're just saying they had a better offseason. OKC wasn't in a position to do anything, but somehow managed to get rid of a bloated contract in exchange for an all nba player, who not only is a good player but also may help them keep their cornerstone player. It's no guarantee, obviously, but they didn't have any real assets in the first place.

Houston pulled off a big trade for an aging star. It will likely lead to a slight improvement in number of wins (only slight because of the already high number last season), but it's not quite better than what OKC did. Though even then, it's close. #3 and #5 is not that big a difference anyway
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Not really sure what the Sixers did to be rated so high up this list. They basically added JJ and Markelle.
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Not really sure what the Sixers did to be rated so high up this list. They basically added JJ and Markelle.


Trading up for Fultz. In theory a #1 pick is better then a #3 and a #3-5.
We will have to wait and see on this one
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regardless of the pay, I think Clarkson is a good player to have, a lot better than other realistic options.
I am personally annoyed that we lost Nick Young since he was basically our best 3pt shooter by far. He's one of those guys like Livingston that is going to be able to really let the starters get some solid rest. I hope we make up for it somehow, but right now we don't have anywhere near as deadly a 3pt shooter or hard shot maker like Young, and the warriors, our primary target, got our best one and they already have a handful of better ones. So I was extremely annoyed at that.

Lonzo seems special enough to really distinguish ourselves from the Warriors. but there's still that bottom line that open guys will have to make their 3pt shots. This is going to be key for us, and there's also the great hope that Ingram will emerge. He showed impressive glimpses as we all know that first game in the summer, I was very impressed. Now the volume. TO me, everything else is up in the air and remains to be seen.


While I agree that we will miss Nick 3pts, all our guards from last season 4 guard rotation were abysmal defenders, bottom 10 among PG/SG. We just have Clarkson remaining from this "no defense" crop and I think it is ok keeping one player like him. Two is too much.
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regardless of the pay, I think Clarkson is a good player to have, a lot better than other realistic options.
I am personally annoyed that we lost Nick Young since he was basically our best 3pt shooter by far. He's one of those guys like Livingston that is going to be able to really let the starters get some solid rest. I hope we make up for it somehow, but right now we don't have anywhere near as deadly a 3pt shooter or hard shot maker like Young, and the warriors, our primary target, got our best one and they already have a handful of better ones. So I was extremely annoyed at that.

Lonzo seems special enough to really distinguish ourselves from the Warriors. but there's still that bottom line that open guys will have to make their 3pt shots. This is going to be key for us, and there's also the great hope that Ingram will emerge. He showed impressive glimpses as we all know that first game in the summer, I was very impressed. Now the volume. TO me, everything else is up in the air and remains to be seen.


While I agree that we will miss Nick 3pts, all our guards from last season 4 guard rotation were abysmal defenders, bottom 10 among PG/SG. We just have Clarkson remaining from this "no defense" crop and I think it is ok keeping one player like him. Two is too much.


Based on summer league, Lonzo will fit in that group as well. At least in his rookie year.
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Based on summer league, Lonzo will fit in that group as well. At least in his rookie year.


While his man defense is terrible, Lonzo is a good team defender, let's see how he develops.
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Based on summer league, Lonzo will fit in that group as well. At least in his rookie year.


While his man defense is terrible, Lonzo is a good team defender, let's see how he develops.


I think he will improve. But long haul, probably best putting him on the team's weakest perimeter defender. His point of attack defense isn't good (most guards aren't) but you can tell he has good instincts in passing lanes and help defense.
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Is it about quality of team at end of off-season. Or is it improvement of quality..


It's neither. It's about the quality of the moves you made. That includes signing free agents; making trades; resigning your own players; getting players on good contracts; signing coaches or executives.

The Warriors were number #1 not because they improved or because of how good their roster was, but because they managed to resign all their own players who were free agents.


Geez. I actually clicked the link to get his criteria.

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This isn’t science. It’s an educated guess, weighing the impact both of the Draft and free agency, but also assessing whether teams got value in their free-agent signings. Overpaying the right player is as much a sin as signing the wrong player. A good new coach can coax some more wins out of a roster. But if a team’s players don’t believe in the system their team uses (I’m looking at you, Knicks), the best Xs and Os on earth don’t matter.

Teams that are rebuilding obviously have different priorities than teams making a championship push. That's factored in. It’s why, even though I may think Atlanta was right to push the reset button and start over, losing Millsap and the other players who’ve departed in the last two years is a bigger deal -- and, thus, the Hawks’ offseason can’t be viewed as a success when determining if they’re better now than they were in April. They’re not. And a team like the Warriors that shows it’s willing to go deep into the luxury tax -- which most teams try to avoid -- in order to keep winning has to be commended, and its rankings reflect that commendation.

Continuity matters here as well. The most successful teams usually not only identify a core group of players, they keep them together for a while, finding that sweet spot: everyone doesn’t get a max contract, but most get paid well enough to keep the train moving down the tracks. That reflects both good roster construction and good financial management -- and, again, is rewarded. The explosion in the cap means everyone has to spend; keeping your powder dry for another day doesn’t have as much cache as it used to. But you still have to manage your money wisely.



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regardless of the pay, I think Clarkson is a good player to have, a lot better than other realistic options.
I am personally annoyed that we lost Nick Young since he was basically our best 3pt shooter by far. He's one of those guys like Livingston that is going to be able to really let the starters get some solid rest. I hope we make up for it somehow, but right now we don't have anywhere near as deadly a 3pt shooter or hard shot maker like Young, and the warriors, our primary target, got our best one and they already have a handful of better ones. So I was extremely annoyed at that.

Lonzo seems special enough to really distinguish ourselves from the Warriors. but there's still that bottom line that open guys will have to make their 3pt shots. This is going to be key for us, and there's also the great hope that Ingram will emerge. He showed impressive glimpses as we all know that first game in the summer, I was very impressed. Now the volume. TO me, everything else is up in the air and remains to be seen.


While I agree that we will miss Nick 3pts, all our guards from last season 4 guard rotation were abysmal defenders, bottom 10 among PG/SG. We just have Clarkson remaining from this "no defense" crop and I think it is ok keeping one player like him. Two is too much.

defense is a funny thing in the nba. it's like anyone at anytime can be considered a great or horrible defender. only a handful of players have a career long rep as a defensive stud. i personally laugh at it because it's all about how the team is doing...and when you factor in tanking etc. people talk about effort, i still laugh. watch, all of a sudden nick will be a an amazing defender. he already was playing good defense magically earlier in the year when the team was doing well.
lebron had a rep of being a bad defender. then he joined the heat and all of a sudden he was the most amazing defender. point is, it's easy being considered a great defensive player if your team is winning easily, and vice versa...it's easy to look bad when the team is losing. so many guys now can hit long threes while being defended well. so it's just....useless.

i think clarkson is a fine defender and will be better when the team wins more. why? not because i've seen anything spectacular on defense, but he has consistently shown that he works hard and makes adjustments as needed and he doesn't seem to slack.

my thing with nick is that we have none (ZERO) 3pt specialist on the team which is a scary thought for 2018 and onward. hopefully kuzma will be one, but highly unlikely to become that guy all of a sudden. At most, he will be consistent with knocking down the open looks, which can be developed. that's like the fisher type...not considered a specialist, but comes through. but i personally would want 2-3 specialists. there's one area i have a little hope for as far as lonzo, because perhaps the lakers with his passing can get away with not needing as many hardcore 3pt specialists to succeed. that remains to be seen. if true, that's HUGE for the lakers...if we can win without the threes screw it, i'm tired of it anyway.
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my thing with nick is that we have none (ZERO) 3pt specialist on the team which is a scary thought for 2018 and onward. hopefully kuzma will be one, but highly unlikely to become that guy all of a sudden. At most, he will be consistent with knocking down the open looks, which can be developed. that's like the fisher type...not considered a specialist, but comes through. but i personally would want 2-3 specialists. there's one area i have a little hope for as far as lonzo, because perhaps the lakers with his passing can get away with not needing as many hardcore 3pt specialists to succeed. that remains to be seen. if true, that's HUGE for the lakers...if we can win without the threes screw it, i'm tired of it anyway.


That's a fair point, but the NBA seems to be moving away from three point specialists. The paradigm is "3 and D" players and the like. The trend is toward teams where everyone can shoot the three, including the center. Like you, I'm not thrilled with that.
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epak wrote:
Is it about quality of team at end of off-season. Or is it improvement of quality..


It's neither. It's about the quality of the moves you made. That includes signing free agents; making trades; resigning your own players; getting players on good contracts; signing coaches or executives.

The Warriors were number #1 not because they improved or because of how good their roster was, but because they managed to resign all their own players who were free agents.


Geez. I actually clicked the link to get his criteria.

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What plays into the rankings:

This isn’t science. It’s an educated guess, weighing the impact both of the Draft and free agency, but also assessing whether teams got value in their free-agent signings. Overpaying the right player is as much a sin as signing the wrong player. A good new coach can coax some more wins out of a roster. But if a team’s players don’t believe in the system their team uses (I’m looking at you, Knicks), the best Xs and Os on earth don’t matter.

Teams that are rebuilding obviously have different priorities than teams making a championship push. That's factored in. It’s why, even though I may think Atlanta was right to push the reset button and start over, losing Millsap and the other players who’ve departed in the last two years is a bigger deal -- and, thus, the Hawks’ offseason can’t be viewed as a success when determining if they’re better now than they were in April. They’re not. And a team like the Warriors that shows it’s willing to go deep into the luxury tax -- which most teams try to avoid -- in order to keep winning has to be commended, and its rankings reflect that commendation.

Continuity matters here as well. The most successful teams usually not only identify a core group of players, they keep them together for a while, finding that sweet spot: everyone doesn’t get a max contract, but most get paid well enough to keep the train moving down the tracks. That reflects both good roster construction and good financial management -- and, again, is rewarded. The explosion in the cap means everyone has to spend; keeping your powder dry for another day doesn’t have as much cache as it used to. But you still have to manage your money wisely.



bleh.


I'm not sure what fault you have with his criteria (and yes, I read it before I responded the first time.) I find it reasonable
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my thing with nick is that we have none (ZERO) 3pt specialist on the team which is a scary thought for 2018 and onward. hopefully kuzma will be one, but highly unlikely to become that guy all of a sudden. At most, he will be consistent with knocking down the open looks, which can be developed. that's like the fisher type...not considered a specialist, but comes through. but i personally would want 2-3 specialists. there's one area i have a little hope for as far as lonzo, because perhaps the lakers with his passing can get away with not needing as many hardcore 3pt specialists to succeed. that remains to be seen. if true, that's HUGE for the lakers...if we can win without the threes screw it, i'm tired of it anyway.


That's a fair point, but the NBA seems to be moving away from three point specialists. The paradigm is "3 and D" players and the like. The trend is toward teams where everyone can shoot the three, including the center. Like you, I'm not thrilled with that.


Seems like the NBA is moving away from specialists in general. Everyone's wet dream is to field a team of five 6-9 guys who can play defense, shoot 3s, and switch to any player.
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I think you're looking at it wrong though. They're not saying okc will be better than houston this season. They're just saying they had a better offseason.


I'm only looking at it from the offseason perspective. CP3 is a better player than PG13, and PG13 is clearly a rental. Houston got Harden to sign a extension this summer. That's major. Westbrook hasn't, yet.
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nash wrote:
SuperboyReformed wrote:
regardless of the pay, I think Clarkson is a good player to have, a lot better than other realistic options.
I am personally annoyed that we lost Nick Young since he was basically our best 3pt shooter by far. He's one of those guys like Livingston that is going to be able to really let the starters get some solid rest. I hope we make up for it somehow, but right now we don't have anywhere near as deadly a 3pt shooter or hard shot maker like Young, and the warriors, our primary target, got our best one and they already have a handful of better ones. So I was extremely annoyed at that.

Lonzo seems special enough to really distinguish ourselves from the Warriors. but there's still that bottom line that open guys will have to make their 3pt shots. This is going to be key for us, and there's also the great hope that Ingram will emerge. He showed impressive glimpses as we all know that first game in the summer, I was very impressed. Now the volume. TO me, everything else is up in the air and remains to be seen.


While I agree that we will miss Nick 3pts, all our guards from last season 4 guard rotation were abysmal defenders, bottom 10 among PG/SG. We just have Clarkson remaining from this "no defense" crop and I think it is ok keeping one player like him. Two is too much.

defense is a funny thing in the nba. it's like anyone at anytime can be considered a great or horrible defender. only a handful of players have a career long rep as a defensive stud. i personally laugh at it because it's all about how the team is doing...and when you factor in tanking etc. people talk about effort, i still laugh. watch, all of a sudden nick will be a an amazing defender. he already was playing good defense magically earlier in the year when the team was doing well.
lebron had a rep of being a bad defender. then he joined the heat and all of a sudden he was the most amazing defender. point is, it's easy being considered a great defensive player if your team is winning easily, and vice versa...it's easy to look bad when the team is losing. so many guys now can hit long threes while being defended well. so it's just....useless.

i think clarkson is a fine defender and will be better when the team wins more. why? not because i've seen anything spectacular on defense, but he has consistently shown that he works hard and makes adjustments as needed and he doesn't seem to slack.

my thing with nick is that we have none (ZERO) 3pt specialist on the team which is a scary thought for 2018 and onward. hopefully kuzma will be one, but highly unlikely to become that guy all of a sudden. At most, he will be consistent with knocking down the open looks, which can be developed. that's like the fisher type...not considered a specialist, but comes through. but i personally would want 2-3 specialists. there's one area i have a little hope for as far as lonzo, because perhaps the lakers with his passing can get away with not needing as many hardcore 3pt specialists to succeed. that remains to be seen. if true, that's HUGE for the lakers...if we can win without the threes screw it, i'm tired of it anyway.


Lebron was second in DPOY votes in 2009 while with clevland
While I understand that players tend to not play defense on bad teams, Clarkson does not lack effort, but basics/IQ.
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I think you're looking at it wrong though. They're not saying okc will be better than houston this season. They're just saying they had a better offseason.


I'm only looking at it from the offseason perspective. CP3 is a better player than PG13, and PG13 is clearly a rental. Houston got Harden to sign a extension this summer. That's major. Westbrook hasn't, yet.


PG isn't clearly a rental, he should fit in well there.
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I think you're looking at it wrong though. They're not saying okc will be better than houston this season. They're just saying they had a better offseason.


I'm only looking at it from the offseason perspective. CP3 is a better player than PG13, and PG13 is clearly a rental. Houston got Harden to sign a extension this summer. That's major. Westbrook hasn't, yet.


PG isn't clearly a rental, he should fit in well there.


And we are sure of this how?
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I think you're looking at it wrong though. They're not saying okc will be better than houston this season. They're just saying they had a better offseason.


I'm only looking at it from the offseason perspective. CP3 is a better player than PG13, and PG13 is clearly a rental. Houston got Harden to sign a extension this summer. That's major. Westbrook hasn't, yet.


PG isn't clearly a rental, he should fit in well there.


And we are sure of this how?


He and Westbrook will be a good scoring duo and him replacing Olidipo will improve their defense. They should challenge as a top 2-4 team in the West.
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I think you're looking at it wrong though. They're not saying okc will be better than houston this season. They're just saying they had a better offseason.


I'm only looking at it from the offseason perspective. CP3 is a better player than PG13, and PG13 is clearly a rental. Houston got Harden to sign a extension this summer. That's major. Westbrook hasn't, yet.


PG isn't clearly a rental, he should fit in well there.


And we are sure of this how?


He and Westbrook will be a good scoring duo and him replacing Olidipo will improve their defense. They should challenge as a top 2-4 team in the West.


And why does the KD/WB experience not prove illuminating here too? I know the Warriors got a cap spike, but if playing with WB was so fun and worth it, KD would have stayed.
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Is it about quality of team at end of off-season. Or is it improvement of quality..


It's neither. It's about the quality of the moves you made. That includes signing free agents; making trades; resigning your own players; getting players on good contracts; signing coaches or executives.

The Warriors were number #1 not because they improved or because of how good their roster was, but because they managed to resign all their own players who were free agents.


Geez. I actually clicked the link to get his criteria.

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What plays into the rankings:

This isn’t science. It’s an educated guess, weighing the impact both of the Draft and free agency, but also assessing whether teams got value in their free-agent signings. Overpaying the right player is as much a sin as signing the wrong player. A good new coach can coax some more wins out of a roster. But if a team’s players don’t believe in the system their team uses (I’m looking at you, Knicks), the best Xs and Os on earth don’t matter.

Teams that are rebuilding obviously have different priorities than teams making a championship push. That's factored in. It’s why, even though I may think Atlanta was right to push the reset button and start over, losing Millsap and the other players who’ve departed in the last two years is a bigger deal -- and, thus, the Hawks’ offseason can’t be viewed as a success when determining if they’re better now than they were in April. They’re not. And a team like the Warriors that shows it’s willing to go deep into the luxury tax -- which most teams try to avoid -- in order to keep winning has to be commended, and its rankings reflect that commendation.

Continuity matters here as well. The most successful teams usually not only identify a core group of players, they keep them together for a while, finding that sweet spot: everyone doesn’t get a max contract, but most get paid well enough to keep the train moving down the tracks. That reflects both good roster construction and good financial management -- and, again, is rewarded. The explosion in the cap means everyone has to spend; keeping your powder dry for another day doesn’t have as much cache as it used to. But you still have to manage your money wisely.



bleh.


I'm not sure what fault you have with his criteria (and yes, I read it before I responded the first time.) I find it reasonable



Yea, I was assuming you read it.
I just meant, "geez... now I gotta click on that link to verify it."

I dont really care about DA, but just to carry on the conversation about the logic in his criteria:
His convoluted criteria (imo):

* weigh the impact both of the Draft and free agency - so far so good
* weigh value in free-agent signings - so far so good
* overpaying the right player is as much a sin as signing the wrong player - eh? at what price point does the overpay equal the bad/wrong player?
* new coach can coax wins, but X's & O's dont matter if team doesnt buy in - is he saying he's weighing the new coach, or weighing a bad fit in player? since he mentioned "new" coach i'll assume he's talking about weighing a coaching change
* rebuild vs winning factored in - factored in how? "Hawks’ offseason can’t be viewed as a success when determining if they’re better now than they were in April. They’re not." So is quality of team a factor then?
* weigh the value of team trying to keep winning has to be commended - is this not based on quality of team
* weigh continuity - well, i guess just to make his point he's saying continuity matter if you're able to not have to use the max on every player. Thank you, KD

He doesn't say which are factored higher. He doesn't say why one team was ranked higher than another.
He throws out "factors" and doesn't say how he's weighing them.
And he qualifies this by saying "This isn’t science. It’s an educated guess."
To me, he should have spent more time on this. You can disagree and think it's reasonable. I'm just saying it's not reasonable to me.
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And he qualifies this by saying "This isn’t science. It’s an educated guess."
To me, he should have spent more time on this. You can disagree and think it's reasonable. I'm just saying it's not reasonable to me.


I don't disagree with your points, but come on. This is just an off-season fluff piece. It's basically filler designed to generate clicks. There are no metrics involved here. This is just a glorified opinion piece.
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And he qualifies this by saying "This isn’t science. It’s an educated guess."
To me, he should have spent more time on this. You can disagree and think it's reasonable. I'm just saying it's not reasonable to me.


I don't disagree with your points, but come on. This is just an off-season fluff piece. It's basically filler designed to generate clicks. There are no metrics involved here. This is just a glorified opinion piece.


Oh yea, I agree.
That's why I was resistant to clicking.
But brother above made it seem like DA had a good point.
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I think you're looking at it wrong though. They're not saying okc will be better than houston this season. They're just saying they had a better offseason.


I'm only looking at it from the offseason perspective. CP3 is a better player than PG13, and PG13 is clearly a rental. Houston got Harden to sign a extension this summer. That's major. Westbrook hasn't, yet.


PG isn't clearly a rental, he should fit in well there.


And we are sure of this how?


He and Westbrook will be a good scoring duo and him replacing Olidipo will improve their defense. They should challenge as a top 2-4 team in the West.


And why does the KD/WB experience not prove illuminating here too? I know the Warriors got a cap spike, but if playing with WB was so fun and worth it, KD would have stayed.


OKC wasn't good enough to beat GS and Durant wants to win. Even as people make up some beef between the two. If PG has the chance to join GS I guarantee he would do it.
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 11, 2017 12:30 pm    Post subject:

venturalakersfan wrote:
yinoma2001 wrote:
venturalakersfan wrote:
yinoma2001 wrote:
venturalakersfan wrote:
Dreamshake wrote:
Chronicle wrote:

I think you're looking at it wrong though. They're not saying okc will be better than houston this season. They're just saying they had a better offseason.


I'm only looking at it from the offseason perspective. CP3 is a better player than PG13, and PG13 is clearly a rental. Houston got Harden to sign a extension this summer. That's major. Westbrook hasn't, yet.


PG isn't clearly a rental, he should fit in well there.


And we are sure of this how?


He and Westbrook will be a good scoring duo and him replacing Olidipo will improve their defense. They should challenge as a top 2-4 team in the West.


And why does the KD/WB experience not prove illuminating here too? I know the Warriors got a cap spike, but if playing with WB was so fun and worth it, KD would have stayed.


OKC wasn't good enough to beat GS and Durant wants to win. Even as people make up some beef between the two. If PG has the chance to join GS I guarantee he would do it.


I didn't mention beef, neither did KD. He thought the style of game that WB played wasn't conducive to his game. I think PG13 may find out the same.

Plus, i have a hard time seeing PG13 re-up to stay and live in OKC for the next 4-5 years.
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 11, 2017 1:19 pm    Post subject:

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regardless of the pay, I think Clarkson is a good player to have, a lot better than other realistic options.
I am personally annoyed that we lost Nick Young since he was basically our best 3pt shooter by far. He's one of those guys like Livingston that is going to be able to really let the starters get some solid rest. I hope we make up for it somehow, but right now we don't have anywhere near as deadly a 3pt shooter or hard shot maker like Young, and the warriors, our primary target, got our best one and they already have a handful of better ones. So I was extremely annoyed at that.

Lonzo seems special enough to really distinguish ourselves from the Warriors. but there's still that bottom line that open guys will have to make their 3pt shots. This is going to be key for us, and there's also the great hope that Ingram will emerge. He showed impressive glimpses as we all know that first game in the summer, I was very impressed. Now the volume. TO me, everything else is up in the air and remains to be seen.


While I agree that we will miss Nick 3pts, all our guards from last season 4 guard rotation were abysmal defenders, bottom 10 among PG/SG. We just have Clarkson remaining from this "no defense" crop and I think it is ok keeping one player like him. Two is too much.


Based on summer league, Lonzo will fit in that group as well. At least in his rookie year.


IDK I saw Lonzo getting a lot of steals and blocks.
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