I disagree, there’s a good chance they trade either Embiid or Simmons by next year. They don’t play well together and ball movement is limited. The locker room is not great given Hoford’s comments today and they just go smoked by the heat by 40 points.
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Interesting point at the end…with the other thread talking about small ball in Houston, I could see the Rockets being a good fit for Trey.
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Trey’s game is the midrange. The Rockets hate the midrange more than any team in NBA history; they only take short twos or threes. So I don’t think it’s a good fit for Trey at all.
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He’s also an on ball guy. They have 2 of those and don’t want anymore. They want every other player to be a 6’4-6’8 wing
Minnesota has one point guard on the roster - I think that’s more likely.
Frankly I’m not positive Trey (due to veteran minimum contract stipulations) has more value to a team than Derrick Walton. Both are third PGs at this juncture, Walton has shown some ability to play acceptable defense.
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Fair, I admittedly haven’t seen much of Trey this year, but the article proposed the Rockets as a possible fit and I do think Trey’s got some good iso game and, albeit at a low volume, was shooting better from deep this year.
Maybe but I’m not sure what a team with Harden and Westbrook needs with a guy who needs the ball in his hands. They just traded for Robert Covington who might take two more dribbles this year.
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1.5 3’s a game in 13 minutes per is a respectable amount of long attempts and Trey was shooting 42% this year from deep.
Moe sets a mean screen for Beal’s game winner. Too bad it looks like THJ messed up here, after hitting 1/2 free throws before the timeout.
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Duncan Robinson played 41 minutes tonight, scoring 18 points on 6/9 from three, along with 5 rebounds and 6 assists!
Unlike most games, he played a very good defensive game as well, although at this point, he is the Heat fans’ whipping boy on defense, so they seem to blame everything on him.
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Trey had a game of 42 points and 12 assists last year. I mean . . .
So did Andre Ingram.
Despite your shock at this, Burke has healthy scratched a MINIMUM of 25 games a year for half a decade now across 5 teams and 5 coaches. He’s the walking definition of a fringe rotation player.
However poorly he may have played early in his career, he was pretty solid in 2017 (12.8 per game, 4.7 assists, 50% shooting, in only 21 minutes per night) and not bad last year either (10.9 a game with the same minutes), and that’s WAY ahead of anything Walton has shown in the NBA. I like Derrick a lot but Trey is the far better NBA player right now. The fact the Sixers played Neto over him is insane (and their record, compared to their talent level, is evidence to me their coach is no genius).
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And also, what on earth are you talking about?
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I do think that Trey is absolutely good enough to be on an NBA team. However, scoring 42 points awhile ago doesn’t mean much. J Crossover scored 51 less than 10 months ago and he’s outta the league too.
Sure, I’m not basing it all on one game. Two years ago, his per 36 minutes scoring average was 21.1; last year it was 20.2. That’s pretty good. If the Lakers don’t sign Collison they could absolutely use him as a backup PG.
Dude it was a joke to point out lots of people have played a good game without being NBA players
Man I don’t know what to tell you - five coaches have voluntarily sat him for 25+ games a year. As dumb as you may think Brett Brown is, I’m not sure we can extend that to Rick Carlisle who didn’t play him despite a love of playing three tiny point guards at once, or Scottie Brooks who has coached plenty of good teams. Trey’s a third point guard at this stage - Neto plays because he can defend, which Trey has been abhorrent at for his entire career.
(Peripherally this thing where this board treats a 50+ win pace team like they’re trash is crazy. And if they are trash the flaw is conception (one guy who can shoot threes) not coaching).
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Yea, but it’s not like Brand is giving Brown any vote of confidence. The team is flawed IMO and not going to have a run at the title with this group. Trey is not the answer I agree, but I don’t see them contending with a defense first strategy in a three ball league.