Starting PG Trade Options

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I feel the same way lol.

Here's my question- would a player like Fox alleviate or exacerbate Rudy poor fit with the team offensively? I don't know enough about his game to say one way or another, but I'm concerned that spacing would still be an issue since Fox isn't a great 3 point shooter (in fact he's a very poor one)

I personally still have a lot of faith in Dillingham, but a Fox/Ant backcourt is an exciting one

Yeah, it's a tough tell. I think the debate on where Dillingham falls is one year too early. There is just too little tape on him. It's a trade the mystery box while others may still be highly intrigued, hold onto that box and hope it is brilliant, or you hold and get stuck with a rotten egg conundrum. Who knows, and Finch/TC/Staff/players are the only ones who know what Dillingham has.

Yep. It’s hard to know how players drafted at age 19 with only one year of college will pan out in the NBA. I have a high level of confidence that he’ll be really good. Watching videos and looking at their basic physical data (measurements, athletic testing), Rob appears to have Garland’s perimeter shooting prowess but with more explosiveness while appearing to have Fox’s athleticism but a much better 3-point shot. All three are about the same size.

Rob didn’t have enough playing time with the Wolves to give any weight one way or the other t his NBA stats. But he averaged 23.3 minutes at Kentucky where he compiled some really impressive stats, averaging 15.2 points, 4 assists, and 3 rebounds while hitting 47.5% of his FGAs and 44.4% of his significant 4.5 3-point attempts per game. Your rarely find college freshman who put up those kinds of numbers and those who do tend to have a lot of NBA success. For comparison, Fox averaged 16.7 points, 4.6 assists, and 4 rebounds in nearly 30 minutes per game while shooting 48% from the field and only 24.6% from behind the arc. As a Freshman playing 34 minutes per game, Ja Morant averaged 12.7 points, 6.3 assists, and 6.5 rebounds while hitting 46% of his FGAs and 30.7% of his threes.

It’s impossible to know how a young player like Rob will ultimately pan out but I’ll put some big money on Dilly becoming at least a really good starting PG and perhaps more. It’s true that TC and the Wolves staff know more about Dilly than we do. But I only put so much trust in the judgment of NBA front office executives when it comes to decisions about young players. We’ve recently seen front office executives trading away young players like SGA and Haliburton even though they and their coaching staffs saw those players up close for an extended time. I still remember the Wolves letting Chauncey Billups go in favor of the injury prone veteran, Terrell Brandon. We all know what Chauncey went on to do. Sometimes we give way too much credit to the acumen of NBA basketball executives. As I see it, there is only one truly elite NBA basketball executive and his name is Sam Presti. And even he makes mistakes.

I really like Fox and pairing him with Ant would be exciting and could be really effective. But I’d roll with Dilly as well as TSJ and Clark together with Ant, Jaden and Naz, as our core guys going forward. TC should be focused on blending those players together and adding players who will enhance and be enhanced by that core group. I can see DDV in the mix going forward. Maybe we stay with Rudy and phase down his minutes over time. I don’t see keeping Randle long term because I think Naz would leave if we did.

Let’s go young and fast like OKC and Indiana.

The Kings did get Sabonis back who is a very good player and they already had Fox as their PG. If you want an example of NBA franchises incompetence when it comes to Haliburton I would suggest looking at how he fell to the Kings in the draft.

It's not a 100% but I think banking on a talented UK guard to be good is a pretty good bet. Monk while not a star has turned into a nice enough player.