CoolBreeze44 wrote:So you think some 15th man castoff is going to be better than Miller, Tyus, Zach and Brown?
Brown isn't likely to make the roster, and I'll take Miller, Tyus and Zach over the castoffs. But there are likely to be some good players that aren't going to make the cut who are a lot better than Damjan Rudez. I hope Milt is watching this closely. Maybe that big, banging center that some want to trade Gorgui for might be out there as a free agent after cuts are finalized. I'll take him over Rudez.
And how does that move the meter?
Haven't you heard? This team is apparently one Jeff Adrian or Luc Mbah a Moute away from being a perennial, championship powerhouse. It's the final piece. Who knew.
Lol, I don't know if it moves the meter much if at all, but I just want Milt to give Sam the 15 players that give us the best chance of winning. And with Pek out the first month, I think a physical center is likely more valuable than Rudez. Last night firmed up my opinion as I watched Rudez showing nothing and KAT/Gorgui getting pushed around by Monroe.
I don't see any situation where Sam would opt to play an Adrien type of player over Towns and Dieng even if they are getting pushed around. That's such a short-term type of move that you would really only see in a playoff series when every game matters. In the regular season you just let them play it out and learn from it.
That may be true, khans. We're awfully thin at center, though, if either Towns or Gorgui gets hurt or needs a night off. I don't want to see KG or Payne playing center. It's comforting to me to have a third center inactive most nights but ready to dress if needed.
Monster, I've really only watched Rudez in the free scrimmage and last night, but I don't see him as a keeper. Once again he didn't have a rebound last night, so it's difficult for me to see him playing PF. And he looks way too slow-footed to defend any SF's (and even many PF's). I recognize he shot threes well for Indy at times last year, but man, the rest of his game just seems so inadequate to me. I can't see him getting on the court except in a mop up role. But again, I've only seen him play twice, and maybe last night was an unusually poor game for him.
CoolBreeze44 wrote:So you think some 15th man castoff is going to be better than Miller, Tyus, Zach and Brown?
Brown isn't likely to make the roster, and I'll take Miller, Tyus and Zach over the castoffs. But there are likely to be some good players that aren't going to make the cut who are a lot better than Damjan Rudez. I hope Milt is watching this closely. Maybe that big, banging center that some want to trade Gorgui for might be out there as a free agent after cuts are finalized. I'll take him over Rudez.
And how does that move the meter?
Haven't you heard? This team is apparently one Jeff Adrian or Luc Mbah a Moute away from being a perennial, championship powerhouse. It's the final piece. Who knew.
Lol, I don't know if it moves the meter much if at all, but I just want Milt to give Sam the 15 players that give us the best chance of winning. And with Pek out the first month, I think a physical center is likely more valuable than Rudez. Last night firmed up my opinion as I watched Rudez showing nothing and KAT/Gorgui getting pushed around by Monroe.
I don't see any situation where Sam would opt to play an Adrien type of player over Towns and Dieng even if they are getting pushed around. That's such a short-term type of move that you would really only see in a playoff series when every game matters. In the regular season you just let them play it out and learn from it.
That may be true, khans. We're awfully thin at center, though, if either Towns or Gorgui gets hurt or needs a night off. I don't want to see KG or Payne playing center. It's comforting to me to have a third center inactive most nights but ready to dress if needed.
Monster, I've really only watched Rudez in the free scrimmage and last night, but I don't see him as a keeper. Once again he didn't have a rebound last night, so it's difficult for me to see him playing PF. And he looks way too slow-footed to defend any SF's (and even many PF's). I recognize he shot threes well for Indy at times last year, but man, the rest of his game just seems so inadequate to me. I can't see him getting on the court except in a mop up role. But again, I've only seen him play twice, and maybe last night was an unusually poor game for him.
I'm fine with bringing in a depth big. It's when people say things like we need that depth big to possibly play ahead of Towns and Dieng on nights when they are getting handled to try to increase our chances of winning that game that has me thinking people are way overvaluing what that depth big is actually going to do here. He's simply not going to play unless someone gets injured and he's getting cut as soon as Pek is back. If we brought in Jeff Adrien he would never play ahead of Towns or Dieng unless one of them got hurt and some people on here seem to think he would have a bigger role than that and that's why it's an important pickup. I don't see that as the case.
I think we just need a matchup big until Pek gets back. If Towns and Dieng are getting worked out there we have someone that we can throw at them that might be able to push back or give a hard foul or two. This team lacks an enforcer. I thought Perkins would have been perfect for us here. He had a relationship with KG and could have been that guy off the bench that wouldn't be afraid to mix it up.
