Covington has been playing on one of the worst teams in NBA history and has managed to look like a decent player who could fit a niche roll coming off the bench. I'd think it would be a good risk.
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The GS pick is going to be like the 30th overall pick. It might have less value than an early 2nd round pick.
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Not if the team is looking to package multiple first round picks in a deal. The ability to trade multiple consecutive picks is a good thing to have. I wouldn't sell that for Covington TBH.
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MDAV28
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Taking a risk that he's a different player on our team is not worth it. I mean almost all his scoring is assisted. If anything you could make the argument he looks even better on a worse team cause he has free reign to put the ball up.
So you are saying he is a good catch and shoot player and could maybe benefit from being on a team that has players who can make plays instead of being on the Sixers who start D-League players on the perimeter?
MDAV28
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He's not a good catch-and-shoot player. At least not better than Ingles.
Maybe not at just catch and shoot, but he is certainly a better defender than Ingles and has more positional versatility.
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We could find tons of guys like that in the DLeague right now. Giving up assets for Covington. Nah.
You are underrating Covington. 6'8 w/ a 7'2 wingspan and can hit the 3. He would also help in some scenarios where teams go small. Think about Dallas when they put Parsons at the 4 and we struggled to guard him with Favors or Booker.
He is also on contract for 2 more years after this year. 1,000,000 a year. Bargain contract and probably better than what the GS pick will end up becoming. He adds something we don't have to the team.
MDAV28
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We could just play Hayward on the small 4 if we wanted to counter that. The point is to keep Favors and Gobert on the court, so that doesn't fix anything cause you'd be taking them off the court for Covington.
So we want to play our best player out of position? If Utah wanted to play this way with Hayward they would have deployed this more often by now, they haven't.