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Post by nuraman00 on Oct 11, 2018 23:37:15 GMT -8
7 assists and 0 turnovers from Gilgeous-Alexander is good.
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Post by dyce on Oct 12, 2018 0:35:22 GMT -8
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2018 5:16:08 GMT -8
Jawun Evans was a -8 in a 48 point blowout?!?! Bye Felicia!!!!
Interesting to see who will be the other cuts. Motley and Delgado are definite. Thornwell probable. Johnson hopeful.
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Post by clippers1121 on Oct 12, 2018 8:16:26 GMT -8
They are not going to cut Wesley Johnson because he can be filler in a trade in February. We have Wallace, Thornwell, Evans who don't get paid enough to be useful in trades and are redundant with other players. And Jerome Robinson does not look to be a rotation player at this point. I would say the lowest paid guys that are not first round picks are the guys most likely to get cut. These guys could all play in the G league I guess. But I don't know what the rules are on that. Cuts will come soon though.
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Post by mistwell on Oct 12, 2018 9:38:34 GMT -8
The most important thing I have seen in the preseason is Boban is getting minutes, and playing well in those minutes, and his endurance seems to be holding up. On a per-minute basis he's better than DJ. If he can play 20 minutes consistently in the regular season, our center slot goes from shaky to more solid.
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Post by jglanton on Oct 12, 2018 10:15:36 GMT -8
The most important thing I have seen in the preseason is Boban is getting minutes, and playing well in those minutes, and his endurance seems to be holding up. On a per-minute basis he's better than DJ. If he can play 20 minutes consistently in the regular season, our center slot goes from shaky to more solid. BM takes over for DJ! 😁 |
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Post by nuraman00 on Oct 12, 2018 10:28:53 GMT -8
One can hope, but it doesn't look like he's a leading man in the rotation.
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Post by corkscrew on Oct 12, 2018 14:48:51 GMT -8
Boban's Per/36 min numbers in the preseason:
42 pts. 23 Reb, 4.2 blks, 12 trips to Free Throw line, 9.88 made for 82.35%
Aside from the numbers, his presence on the court forces the opponent to make adjustments that they don't want to make. As one obvious example, you can't field a small lineup against the Clippers when he is on the court or you'll get utterly destroyed.
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Post by nuraman00 on Oct 12, 2018 15:27:20 GMT -8
Rivers Sr. wants Marjanovic to be a Secret Weapon. To achieve that, he has to limit his playing time.
Some of us want him to be an overt lethal weapon.
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Post by corkscrew on Oct 12, 2018 23:51:33 GMT -8
Rivers Sr. wants Marjanovic to be a Secret Weapon. To achieve that, he has to limit his playing time. Some of us want him to be an overt lethal weapon.
There are no secret weapons in the NBA, it’s a very affluent league, there are scouts who get paid a lot of money to do what they would do for a fraction of what they get, tons of them.
But here are chess pieces that you can use occasionally to confuse the scouts, if that’s what you mean, but using a 7’3” giant who towers over all the league bigs and can actually shoot the ball is not exactly three dimensional chess.
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Post by dyce on Oct 13, 2018 3:26:00 GMT -8
Honestly, I thought his defense was pretty good. Yeah he is slow and won't be chasing point guards around, but he was able to disrupt a lot of what they were trying to do. If our guards (Beverley, Bradley, and SGA) can keep the opponent guards from going off, I think we'll be fine playing Bobi more minutes.
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Post by nuraman00 on Oct 13, 2018 15:08:31 GMT -8
Rivers Sr. wants Marjanovic to be a Secret Weapon. To achieve that, he has to limit his playing time. Some of us want him to be an overt lethal weapon.
There are no secret weapons in the NBA, it’s a very affluent league, there are scouts who get paid a lot of money to do what they would do for a fraction of what they get, tons of them.
But here are chess pieces that you can use occasionally to confuse the scouts, if that’s what you mean, but using a 7’3” giant who towers over all the league bigs and can actually shoot the ball is not exactly three dimensional chess.
The Sacramento Kings scouts get paid a lot of money to draft / trade for busts, or players that are almost out of the league within 5 years.
Thomas Robinson; Ben McLemore; Nik Stauskas; Georgios Papagiannis; and some offseason NBA experts but Bagley III in that list.
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Post by nuraman00 on Oct 13, 2018 15:13:14 GMT -8
Ben Handlogten was a secret weapon for the Jazz in 2003-2004. Bill Simmons was so upset that this guy was on a mini-tear, that he called him "Ben HandLotion". He had a 17 PER in 17 games in that season. www.basketball-reference.com/players/h/handlbe01.htmlSundiata Gaines and Jamaal Tinsley (even though he'd been in the league for a long time) also had surges in recent years, for the Jazz. Bobby Simmons seemed like he would be a secret weapon, but because he kept it up all year, he turned it into a MIP. So he wasn't a victorious secret. |
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Post by corkscrew on Oct 13, 2018 15:22:43 GMT -8
There are no secret weapons in the NBA, it’s a very affluent league, there are scouts who get paid a lot of money to do what they would do for a fraction of what they get, tons of them.
But here are chess pieces that you can use occasionally to confuse the scouts, if that’s what you mean, but using a 7’3” giant who towers over all the league bigs and can actually shoot the ball is not exactly three dimensional chess.
The Sacramento Kings scouts get paid a lot of money to draft / trade for busts, or players that are almost out of the league within 5 years.
Thomas Robinson; Ben McLemore; Nik Stauskas; Georgios Papagiannis; and some offseason NBA experts but Bagley III in that list.
I didn't mean these scouts are infallible judges of talent, I meant the first or second time you use a 7'3" player who can dunk on his tiptoes and who can shoot and block shots, that does not go under the radar. You don't have to be a genius scout to notice that and report it.
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Post by nuraman00 on Oct 13, 2018 16:34:54 GMT -8
Thanks.
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