You're the GM this offseason. What do you do?

[Carbon13]

Name the teams that pair two non-shooting bigs in their starting lineup. I’ll wait.

OKC nearly beat GSW with Kanter, Collison, and Steven Adams.

 

[idiot]

Somehow the Knicks best lineup featured Vonleh and Robinson (with Vonleh hoisting only 2 3s per game compared to Favors's 1). Another of their good lineups had Vonleh and Kanter, with Kanter's rate at only 0.5 3-pt attempts/game. Of course they also had terrible lineups that included Kanter and Vonleh

 

[NUMBERICA]

OKC nearly beat GSW with Kanter, Collison, and Steven Adams.

Besides that that was three years ago, Ibaka was starting.

 

[NUMBERICA]

Somehow the Knicks best lineup featured Vonleh and Robinson (with Vonleh hoisting only 2 3s per game compared to Favors's 1).

1 - that’s still more than Favors
2 - **** team

 

[idiot]

The Nets lineups don't look appreciably more or less successful when they had two non-shooters in the game such as some combination of E Davis, Hollis-Jefferson, and Allen.

 

[idiot]

I guess you could mention the Spurs in the 24 games that Poeltl started. He and Aldridge shot fewer threes combined than Favors per game. The duo was part of the Spurs second most used lineup on the year (though it wasn't particularly successful).

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

How are you going to find out who are “squeezed” before free agency actually begins?

Thats why they made Favors contract with a late guarantee...

 

[Jack Strop]

^Yep. Very good negotiating by Lindsey and/or Zanik to get a July 6th guarantee date.

 

[NUMBERICA]

So what I’m gathering is that destroying your own team’s spacing is a bad idea unless your other options are somehow worse (which only happens when you do a poor job constructing your roster in the first place).

This is not complicated. And when teams are routinely scoring 120 points, and/or perfectly comfortable shooting 3s, committing serious resources to a second rim-protector at the cost of a legit offense is almost laughable.

 

[fishonjazz]

Still cant believe the disrespect for Favors around here.

The obsession with a 4 shooting threes is pretty dumb too. Its not a must. There are other ways to win.

You only get rid of Favors if it brings in someone significantly better. No one mentioned makes us that much better. What we gain with Tobias we also take a different kind of step back by letting Favors go.

Favors looked his absolute best last year and could get better.

Exum is the real problem with the roster. Fix that mess.

23 minutes per game and 17 million doe.
He sits on the bench more than he plays. Some say it's because he can't play more minutes than that for health reasons. Others say it's because we are a better team with a guy like Crowder next to gobert. Both explanations for his low minutes are reasons why you shouldn't pay him so damn much and why you should want another power forward.

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[LoPo]

I still wish we could find a way to restructure the Memphis deal in a way that helps us. Pull some rabbit out of the hat like LA did with the Wiz.

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[Ron Mexico]

Neither Crowder nor 36 year old Joe Johnson were better players than Favors yet lineup data shows that we were better with them at the 4 than Favors. We don't need to replace Favors with someone who is significantly better than he is, we need to replace him with someone who is a significantly better fit at the 4 next to Gobert than he is.

Nah. Ignore all that. Let’s reduce the argument down to “you just want someone who can shoot threes.”

Except when they played with a PG that could shoot then having Favors in the lineup was better. I think Conley can shoot so...

Oh, I forget we ignore that data. Also we ignore playoff data when Favors was much better than Crowder with the starters over the last two years. We also ignore that Favors was better this year with Crowder at the 4 then Gobert was.