sjm34 wrote:khans2k5 wrote:Also be careful what you wish for in regards to blowing it up. We're a .500 team without Jimmy and that was before our conference got even more stacked. Enjoy the lottery and Towns still not being a true franchise player. That's what you get with me first ego and doing nothing to elevate the play of your team.
Khans, I am interested in your take on how successful the team would be if KAT walked away, and we re-signed Jimmy.
Would we be a playoff team, and do you think Jimmy is over the knee issue?
We're simply a better team with Jimmy than KAT. Jimmy is a true impact guy in this league who elevates the team. Towns isn't that guy and frankly I haven't seen him show signs of being that guy in 4 years. He'll put up stats that can backpack a team frequently, but who is better on either end of the court because of Towns? I haven't seen the lethal 2 man PnR game that should come with his skillset and any competent PnR ball handler which Teague, Tyus and Jimmy qualify in my mind. He definitely doesn't cover up anything on defense as the anchor.
All that being said Jimmy has durability issues we all know about. So I think if you could get 72 games out of Jimmy with a replacement level C we are a playoff team, but that 72 games is a maybe every year so it's hard to guarantee playoffs without Towns.
At the end of the day this organization should pick Towns over Jimmy, but I haven't seen anything from Towns that has me believing he's gonna be able to elevate the team to the playoffs. He's a great stat guy which I believe can be a 1b player on a contender, but I don't see any 1a in him. He hasn't shown any kind of leadership on the court and yet wants this team to be built around him as the leader. I think he's a better version of Kevin Love. That guy doesn't get you to contender status as the lead. In the old days, Jimmy/Towns would be enough to give you a chance. In the new NBA you need to pair them with another top 20 guy to have a chance and we don't have the resources to do that unless Jimmy and KAT can get someone to force their way here. If we lose Jimmy we go back to needing two of those guys to have a chance and that's just tough to do when you then need the 1a top 10-15 guy.