JustSomeGuy

Can they have Hunter instead of AJ? lol

Agree with Knecht as a Bogi clone. But would offer the question of whether anyone thinks Gueye diminishes our urgent need for another wing versus a big?

Hyperbole.

SN: Him and Trae in the PnR would be unstoppable.

His lack of foot speed is overstated. Nobody is drafting 7”4 guys because of how graceful they play on the perimeter or get up and down the court. At the very least his length and rebounding at least give him an interior presence which i think would be valuable on THIS team and significantly make up for some of our perimeter defense limitations. Plus If Brook Lopez can still be playable at almost 40 and Jokic can dominate playing slow AND under the rim I think Edey will be fine.

Nothing would make me happier this offseason than to see him shipped away for some mixture of players who can replace his shooting and upgrade his on ball defense and nonexistent rebounding and playmaking. He really is the weak link that’s holding this team back and no amount of weak metric stats can change what the eye test is telling us.

Im going to take this another direction and ask when we’re going to take a look at our S&C staff. Because it seems like we’ve had the injury bug every season for the last several years .

Let’s send him back there, permanently.

And Trae hasn’t played well but is clearly not healthy. He hasn’t played great but he missed the last two months of the season and basically got thrown into a playoff series. That’s tough for anyone.

Whatever moderate good he’s done on defense has been negated by the absolute nothing he’s given you on the other end.

Remember that time Hunter had a ten game stretch where people thought he had it figured out? I hope this is the last time we see him in Atlanta.

The bigger issue for me with our team building strategy wasn’t that we didn’t pick the right players as much as players we pick don’t develop. This is what gives you roster flexibility in the long run that we don’t have. We have so many guys who start out their careers strong and just never take the next step. I’d put Huerter, JC, Hunter, and Reddish on this list (Cam is kind of a bum but still). We are seeing the same thing with OO to to a degree.

I disagree. Isn’t that why we had VC around?

There aren’t really any dominant big men who are (1) available on the market or (2) dependent on strong PG play. That list is very short in that it’s basically Embiid, Jokic, AD (none on the block). The second ground behind them are guys like Bam and Sabonis but Bam is the only one who takes significant leaps playing with Trae, IMO and OO at his peak hopefully replicates that. As for the middle class players, my thoughts are Trae actually helps their game by getting them more open looks, especially on the wings. The problem with JC/Kev is they weren’t aggressive enough (Kev) or weren’t capable (JC) of creating for themselves within the flow of the offense like Bogi (another middle class wing), is.

I think cutting back on his minutes is a last resort a la Eric Gordon, but it helped save his career so maybe it will help.