Then it is more on the management instead of players. Royce, Ed, Jeff and Mudiay are all good pieces but people asked too much out of them due to failure on the front office in managing our assets. It didn't take much hindsight to see Conley is not worth 30mil or all the assets that we gave up. Just look at what John Wall and Chris Paul's contracts have done to their respective teams. Now other players have to get played out of positions and overburdened because of it.
It's not about losing Favs, its about losing him then not signing anyone as his replacement.
Wait whuttttt… Royce is an over achiever and its a slap in the face to compare him to another over achiever with nearly identical stats (raw and advanced) who had a similar story of having to play in Europe prior to making it as a role player in the nba?
Just pump the brakes a lil. Bowen is arguably one of the best perimeter defenders of all time.
I would argue that he is a Bowen type player for a contender. The problem with oneale is that he doesn't shoot enough. Other than that he is a pretty good wing defender in the league with a pretty good 3pt shot.
I don't know how anyone could overstate how important Royce is to this team. He's a premier defender at 4 positions and the only thing he does to detriment winning is actually not shoot enough on a team that he understands has a bunch of star power looking for their stats. He and Joe are the pieces that make this rickety, top-heavy team work.
Hold up, you earlier said he is an overachiever. So what is it, does he overachieve, underachieve, or are you just talking out of both sides of your mouth?
"I think Royce is an over achiever. I don't think he's terrible just like I don't think he's our team's Bruce Bowen (kind if a slap to Bruce's face tbh.)"
