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I like the move, the playoffs are not the goal this year. Give the minutes to the young guys, bud can play the 2 and 3 so he'd be behind Wiggins/Lavine/Kmart/Bazz and even Bjelica if he plays some 3. Under no circumstances do I want this team to waste minutes this year on middle of the road players who will not be part of the team going forward.

Besides, people are suddenly expecting Bud to contribute after two years of nothing, and a short tease at the end of last year while they write of Pek and in some cases Rubio.

TheSP wrote:I like the move, the playoffs are not the goal this year. Give the minutes to the young guys, bud can play the 2 and 3 so he'd be behind Wiggins/Lavine/Kmart/Bazz and even Bjelica if he plays some 3. Under no circumstances do I want this team to waste minutes this year on middle of the road players who will not be part of the team going forward.

Besides, people are suddenly expecting Bud to contribute after two years of nothing, and a short tease at the end of last year while they write of Pek and in some cases Rubio.

Exactly

Jon Krawczynski ?@APkrawczynski 8s8 seconds ago

Talked to Flip. He's very intrigued by Rudez's shooting range. Says he'll be brought to camp and compete for playing time

monsterpile wrote:I think to a certain extent we are dismissing Rudez too quickly as nothing. He played a decent chunk of minutes as a rookie (although he is an older euro guy) for a team that won 38 games. He hit over 50% of his 3's and all his shots after the allstar break.

Someone said he was a PF. There's just nothing there in terms of playing time or even close to it so his skill set really doesn't matter if he doesn't play and won't even play with injuries to other guys. KG, Payne, Bennett, Bjelica, Towns and Dieng would all likely see time at the 4 before him.

khans2k5 wrote:

monsterpile wrote:I think to a certain extent we are dismissing Rudez too quickly as nothing. He played a decent chunk of minutes as a rookie (although he is an older euro guy) for a team that won 38 games. He hit over 50% of his 3's and all his shots after the allstar break.

Someone said he was a PF. There's just nothing there in terms of playing time or even close to it so his skill set really doesn't matter if he doesn't play and won't even play with injuries to other guys. KG, Payne, Bennett, Bjelica, Towns and Dieng would all likely see time at the 4 before him.

He has the size of a 4 but plays like a 3, I think he may have even played a little 2 for the Pacers last year

Volans19 wrote:

khans2k5 wrote:

monsterpile wrote:I think to a certain extent we are dismissing Rudez too quickly as nothing. He played a decent chunk of minutes as a rookie (although he is an older euro guy) for a team that won 38 games. He hit over 50% of his 3's and all his shots after the allstar break.

Someone said he was a PF. There's just nothing there in terms of playing time or even close to it so his skill set really doesn't matter if he doesn't play and won't even play with injuries to other guys. KG, Payne, Bennett, Bjelica, Towns and Dieng would all likely see time at the 4 before him.

He has the size of a 4 but plays like a 3, I think he may have even played a little 2 for the Pacers last year

Translation = he'll be fighting Robbie for the last spot in camp.

TheSP wrote:I like the move, the playoffs are not the goal this year. Give the minutes to the young guys, bud can play the 2 and 3 so he'd be behind Wiggins/Lavine/Kmart/Bazz and even Bjelica if he plays some 3. Under no circumstances do I want this team to waste minutes this year on middle of the road players who will not be part of the team going forward.

Besides, people are suddenly expecting Bud to contribute after two years of nothing, and a short tease at the end of last year while they write of Pek and in some cases Rubio.

I wasn't expecting Bud to play a minute unless we suffered significant injuries again, which is likely. Does anyone ever wonder why our completely falls apart while others seem to move along without missing a beat when they lose guys to injury. This trade is an example why.

sjm34 wrote:

TheSP wrote:I like the move, the playoffs are not the goal this year. Give the minutes to the young guys, bud can play the 2 and 3 so he'd be behind Wiggins/Lavine/Kmart/Bazz and even Bjelica if he plays some 3. Under no circumstances do I want this team to waste minutes this year on middle of the road players who will not be part of the team going forward.

Besides, people are suddenly expecting Bud to contribute after two years of nothing, and a short tease at the end of last year while they write of Pek and in some cases Rubio.

I wasn't expecting Bud to play a minute unless we suffered significant injuries again, which is likely. Does anyone ever wonder why our completely falls apart while others seem to move along without missing a beat when they lose guys to injury. This trade is an example why.

Wasn't Bud playing a lot last year when our season fell apart? Don't think he's going to make much of a difference if we suffer major injuries again.

sjm34 wrote:

TheSP wrote:I like the move, the playoffs are not the goal this year. Give the minutes to the young guys, bud can play the 2 and 3 so he'd be behind Wiggins/Lavine/Kmart/Bazz and even Bjelica if he plays some 3. Under no circumstances do I want this team to waste minutes this year on middle of the road players who will not be part of the team going forward.

Besides, people are suddenly expecting Bud to contribute after two years of nothing, and a short tease at the end of last year while they write of Pek and in some cases Rubio.

I wasn't expecting Bud to play a minute unless we suffered significant injuries again, which is likely. Does anyone ever wonder why our completely falls apart while others seem to move along without missing a beat when they lose guys to injury. This trade is an example why.

Who cares? Not this upcoming year anyways. I want them to win as many games as they can this season, but not because guys like Bud carry them once everybody else goes down. In the event of major injury bugs once again give us the best draft pick possible, not a few extra meaningless wins driven by players who won't be here in two years time.

CoolBreeze44 wrote:

sjm34 wrote:

TheSP wrote:I like the move, the playoffs are not the goal this year. Give the minutes to the young guys, bud can play the 2 and 3 so he'd be behind Wiggins/Lavine/Kmart/Bazz and even Bjelica if he plays some 3. Under no circumstances do I want this team to waste minutes this year on middle of the road players who will not be part of the team going forward.

Besides, people are suddenly expecting Bud to contribute after two years of nothing, and a short tease at the end of last year while they write of Pek and in some cases Rubio.

I wasn't expecting Bud to play a minute unless we suffered significant injuries again, which is likely. Does anyone ever wonder why our completely falls apart while others seem to move along without missing a beat when they lose guys to injury. This trade is an example why.

Wasn't Bud playing a lot last year when our season fell apart? Don't think he's going to make much of a difference if we suffer major injuries again.

He was playing without any confidence. He actually looked to gain his shooting stroke back late in the year, and he is better than having another guy Hummel who can't consistently hit the 3, and is less athletic.
I don't care about the salary cap since we aren't signing anyone this year.