They need Kuminga and Moody to be really good. Don’t think Kuminga is that guy but moody looks like a potential very good role player
Yeah
I’m just not sure they possess a guy who should be the second or even third offensive option on a good team (and least not one who doesn’t get massacred defensively). Klay shouldn’t have his offensive role and his post-injury defensive decline really hurts his value. Wiggins really needs to be 21/22 Wiggins and not the guy he’s been every other season.
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Yeah I agree. I meant that the warriors needed those high lotto picks to become those guys if they were gonna have a chance and on 2 of those picks looks like they may have blown it.
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Yeah right now the draft haul they got from the Steph/Klay sabbatical - Wiseman, Moody, Kuminga - looks spectacularly bad.
Not that DARKO is the be all end all but I think this is really premature on Moody and Kuminga. It’s still very early for them—they were both very young for their draft year. If you take this past season as their rookie years, I think there’s pretty good reason for optimism.
The problem, tho, is it’s not obvious they’ll actually be as good as necessary to max out next year’s team. And the clock is obviously ticking.
Think the haul for Moody + Kuminga + picks would be pretty massive. If I was, say, the Bulls tearing it down, I’d be pretty interested.
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I’m pro Moody. Not pro Kuminga tho. But I think your second paragraph is the main thing. Even if both are good players then how good? And when? Might be too late
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I really thought Poole had turned the corner in his career. He still has most of the same flaws he has always had though and they really show up in the playoffs against good teams. The statement about “empty calories” is sadly pretty on point. He will get hot and torch some bad teams during the regular season but in the playoffs he’s struggled.
Duncan is the only Michigan player left now. Hope he stays pretty hot from outside as I like seeing Michigan guys do well in the NBA.
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I think that phenotype of player (Poole, Herro, Anfernee Simons spring to mind) are really more floor raisers and poor to mediocre teams than guys who are going to help you win at a high level. Miami just ended up handing all of Herro’s minutes to Max Strus and Gabe Vincent and seem certainly no worse at this level.
These guys are good individual offensive players but not good enough to drive good team offense (which is what divides them from like Trae Young), and borderline unplayable defensively.
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It’s just so hard to be a high volume off the dribble shooter in the NBA for even a full season. You need some way to create open shots or get shots at the rim or get fouled.
And I think if you’re an on-ball guy who isn’t a natural playmaker, and a poor defender to boot we start treading on Office Space “So what is it you’d say you do here?” territory
Like the absolute height of the form is Lillard
And he just had arguably the best offensive season a dude of this type ever had and his team stunk
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They blew it passing on Franz
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A number of teams Todd. At this juncture if I were the Magic I’m not sure I’d trade him for anyone picked ahead of him.
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Been watching a little NBA for the first time in a few years. Are they really piping in music/noise during game action?
Great point. Kuminga wasn’t giving much that series. Franz would have been helpful.
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Music, yes. Noise? I don’t think they’ve done that since the bubble. Well, except for the “DEFENSE” part.
Yes. I went to a Pistons game a couple years ago for the first time in nearly a decade. They piped in a “DE-FENSE” chant and played like hip hop instrumentals when the Pistons had the ball. It was so bizarre and jarring.
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I remember going to a Spurs (home) game vs. the Pistons in the 2008-09 season and that was the first place that I heard music going on during play, and the DE-FENSE recording. It was several years before the Pistons started doing it at home games. Maybe even not until the move to LCA.
They’ve literally played music and done the “DE-FENSE” beat for over a decade, if not longer
Matt Ishbia trying to do his hometown team a solid by firing Monty Williams. I respect it 
Better scoop him up before Milwaukee does.
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Yes. I went to a Pistons game a couple years ago for the first time in nearly a decade. They piped in a “DE-FENSE” chant and played like hip hop instrumentals when the Pistons had the ball. It was so bizarre and jarring.
Funny that they pipe in “DE-FENSE” for a team and league that plays none.
Sounds like I have made a wise choice to stay away from NBA games.