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Jingled said:
I just read in Tony Jones latest article that over the last two games our bench has been outscored 96 to 26, it almost cost us both games, and both were against bad teams. I get that there's locker room politics and all that involved and it's hard to replace veterans in the lineup with young guy's without causing a rift, but something has to change. Give Davis's minutes to Bradley, give Brantley a shot, just try something, anything. We're 27 games into the season now and it's clearly not working and it's not gonna get any better.
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Even when Davis sets picks it provides like no value... they go over the top and his guy just drops and waits... if you could throw it to him and have him catch it and do anything except turn it over or miss a shot then that'd be okay. Bradley is getting more offensive rebounds and has outperformed him by a wide margin. Ed might have value on the trade market based on his rep... his performance has been really bad doe so that rep value will dwindle if he doesn't play better.
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
You didn't fix the main problem doe... Ed. I'm telling you he effs up the whole offense... can't catch and finish, can't shoot, isn't such a good defender that it overcomes his other issues.

I'd call NY and just see if they'd do Ed and filler (plus a second rounder or two) for Taj Gibson... I'd rather keep Exum's *** glued to the bench than keep playing Ed. Last night Joe hit some shots when Ed was in and Ed caught and finished one basket... he had two basic point blank layups off of our action and was stripped both times. He's a low volume terrible shooter that defenses are ignoring completely.
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He is incredibly slow under the basket, too. Multiple times last night he got the ball and had to gather himself in just enough time for the defender to collapse on him. Then instead of going up strong and drawing a foul, he either fumbled it or kicked it back out with little time on the clock. I was really amazed at how he couldn't handle a gimme at the rim.
 
LifeOnaPlate said:
He is incredibly slow under the basket, too. Multiple times last night he got the ball and had to gather himself in just enough time for the defender to collapse on him. Then instead of going up strong and drawing a foul, he either fumbled it or kicked it back out with little time on the clock. I was really amazed at how he couldn't handle a gimme at the rim.
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He had 7 pts in that awful Lakers game... outside of that it is 0's and 2's with the occasional breakout of 4... yet some will say playing him provides an upside the Bradley does not have.

He's been a rare combo of low volume shooting, low percentage shooting, but still really high turnover rate that I'm not sure the league has seen. He can't be this bad... but do you know how many offensive rebounds you have to get or how awesome you have to be at defense to make up for that? Its a lot. Year-over-year he's been a lot worse... so maybe it is just a rough patch... he also might be a terrible fit and it may never work.

We have Tony Bradley... if we wanted an in case of emergency third center then we could have signed a vet that is a better fit for that role. Effing play the guy... the numbers suggest he is playing much better than Ed... find out if it is real. I don't buy the BS that you lose the locker room if you do it. We benched Dante's ***. Even if Ed checks out mentally... I honestly don't think he can play worse than he has... he is below true replacement level at the moment imo.
 
Imagine where Miami would be if they played Dion Waiters and James Johnson instead of Kendrick Nunn and Duncan Robinson because those guys are vets and they didn't want to lose the locker room. Just a thought when considering our playing time decisions... not saying any of the young guys are that good.
 
homeytennis said:
Both those guys were GLeague aces last year.
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We've got a few guys who are doing pretty well down there this year... wait... who am I telling... you know we got some solid prospects there this year.
 
infection said:
**** it. Here's the trade of the century:

Exum and Bradley to San Antonio for DeMarre Carroll and Marco Belinelli.

http://www.espn.com/nba/tradeMachine

That's a gigantic upgrade to our bench. We dump Exum's contract on those poor, hapless bastards, and SA can finally get Bradley.

This requires a huge pride swallow of DL but probably wins us 3 more games + rests our guys + gives us a defensive option against Kawhi/LeBron in the playoffs.
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I feel like Marco is the type of dude that could do a front somersault, then morph into a frontal 720 twist, into a cartwheel, and finish with a back somersault and land perfectly and still hit the shot. The dude hits some really tough off balance shots and you think, how?
 
I meant to mention carroll yesterday. He’s had a bunch of dnp’s in a row now. We could prob snag him.
 
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