I'll just post in this thread rather than spamming the others. There are those who are believing he must be cooked because nobody has picked him up yet. He's had injuries the past couple years, but when he came back from injury at the end of last season, his lateral quickness and spunk looked fine.
(above video is to just watch him move physically, these aren't typical highlights by any stretch of the imagination)
One of our big issues with any guard play is that if someone is moving fast, such as in transition or if they've inbounded the ball quickly, they can usually run right to the rack. Another issue is screening. We don't really have the physical capability to go over on screens. A lot of our guys get completely mitigated by screens. Royce is a bigger/thicker guy and his body isn't cut out for slipping over the screen. Perhaps Conley might be the best but he may not have as much quickness laterally over the screen and being lighter overall makes it harder for him to go through the screen, so we can certainly give up open threes if the other team wants them (just like we can give up rebounds in the clutch when the other team wants them). Chris Paul getting inside the key is going to kill us. The only mitigation we may have on this is Rudy Gay being able to cover for Gobert when he goes out to challenge. We did disrupt the lob pretty well when we played Atlanta but I'd imagine Chris Paul would beat that. If Paul shoots over Rudy, that's problematic as well, so it's not simply allowing Rudy to challenge. It would be nice if you had an option for a body you could throw on him that makes him really work if he wants to get to those spots, if not be able to reduce those shots all together. The specific defensive need we have will get exploited and we'll be caught thinking our counter is just more of something else to compensate for it. Unless we're throwing it in the ocean, this will be the weakness in the Death Star that a few rebels just need to shoot at to blow up the entire operation. Oh, but that Death Star cafeteria food is sooooo good. Why worry about some little small weakness where an unlikely hit takes the whole thing down when there's shrimp scampi on the menu?
We need to sign Dunn yesterday. He needs the Forrest minutes. Give him 12 mpg this season and then have him up your sleeve for the playoffs. Forrest isn't even eligible for the playoffs on a two-way. We're talking about ways we can land certain guys who play marginally better defense. Make the Oni-for-Dunn swap and we'll set this league on fire. I'll give it the infection championship guaranteed seal on this one. I'll back this up with a money-back guarantee that I will give back twice as much money as I was paid for this opinion in the event that any party is unsatisfied with the ultimate results of the season.
