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They are 2.5 games out of the 8th seed. Hard to say anybody is really out of it in the west
I don't think the Hawks would do it today, but if they are 22-28 in a month or something and sitting in 10th place in the east, I think it is almost a guarantee that they trade Millsap unless they are very confident they can sign him to a team friendly deal. It sounds like they are one of the few teams that are keen on acquiring Faried, and the Hawks have never been fond of a rebuild, so that trade would give them the opportunity to retool on the fly.
I'm not sold but I'm not sold on him being a bust either. Watching him, I'm not always sure where the disconnect is with him. He seems like an instinctive, cerebral player with a great body and plus athleticism but he has a terrible problem of shooting on the way down and he doesn't finish well around bigs and it cripples the rest of his game. My guess is he turns in to a Jrue Holiday/Jeff Teague level PG down the road. Good enough to start on a playoff team but never good enough to lead the team.
Coaching and the talent really isn't good. Not sure why they were hyped in the preseason....Turner and PG13 are the only above average players.
I guess that depends on what you consider above average. I consider Jeff Teague and Thad Young to be above average and both are in their primes And Paul George isn't just above-average, he's one of the five best players in the East.
I'm bored. We messed around with this almost 6 months ago, but the season has shed some new light on some of these players.
The team finished 45-37 last year with a better coach. Teague and George Hill are similar impact wise. Thad Young is a better player than Mahinmi, but Mahinmi was solid in Vogel's system. So I didn't expect them to be tons better unless Myles Turner made a tremendous leap. With that said they're only 3 games below .500 and George is a stud...so they'll probably finish above .500.
That was my submission 6 months ago and after watching the Dubs that team would seriously DESTROY the current Dubs team. Second chance points is a huge problem for the Dubs and that team would rule the glass.
Love watching him play and he is my favorite Celtic but it would probably be best for the team to trade him.
I am not super surprised by their regular season record--as that team is tailor made to win against 2/3 of the teams in the league on any given night due to their run and gun style. I see them being a very solid regular season team--but I do think they will struggle big time in the playoffs against well coached teams in a best of seven series.
I somewhat disagree. As constructed I don't think they get past GS in a 7 game series, but they're sure as #### going to be more of a handful than the last couple iterations of this Rockets team. MDA, no Dwight, and a ####load of shooters seems like a near-ideal setup if Harden's your superstar.
I could see that--I see them getting past the first round pretty easily (unless they somehow play the clippers). However--I could easily see them not getting past either a healthy clippers team, a healthy Spurs team, or a healthy Warriors team. I could also see them having a long series (albeit I see them winning) against teams like Memphis or Utah.
Toronto really needs to make the push.
I've advocated bringing in a better starting PG for the immediate future, but I also think it is way too early to give up on Mudiay. He is the youngest PG in the NBA with at least 500 minutes (Tyus Jones and Wade Baldwin are just a smidgen younger, Dejounte Murray is half a year younger but they have about 500 minutes combined).
He looked pretty bad again last night
I think you are selling him a bit short. I agree he isn't a good NBA today, but he is showing a lot of the skills necessary to be a good NBA PG and he definitely has the physical attributes necessary. The list of 20 year old PGs who were good NBA players is a list of probably a half a dozen at most (Kyrie, Chris Paul, Magic Johnson...).He looked pretty bad again last night
I agree it's way too early to completely write off anybody his age, but it would take some substantial and unusual development for him to become even a league average starter at this point. I think some people are still hung up on their really high predraft grades with him and if the Nuggets could get someone to pay for that perceived potential, they should sell IMO.
I'm not sure how excited you want to get over that sample size. Looking at his splits by month, he was better offensively in December but only because he had a good month shooting from deep (an outlier given his career performance). That looks like it was offset by him being even worse than usual defensively. Depends on how you define "solid" but my suspicion is that you will always be looking for any upgrade if he's the long term starter.Kev4029 said:
10 games is a wicked small sample size for an NBA player and the schedule has been easy as well, but the spacing is soooo much better with Harris and Jokic out there and Mudiay isn't the focal point of the offense. Lets see if he can keep this up for a bit before you decide that a 20 year old PG is a bust.
