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Start Mitchell at the Point.

Thee jazz fan said:
I like Rubio, and he should start at pg the rest of the year when healthy, but I want Mitchell running pg as our starting pg. IMO pg is his natural position in the nba. Him playing next to Rubio doesn’t work. Rubio needs to have the ball to be at his best, this is also the case for Mitchell. Someone like Donovan needs the ball to get in the rhythm of the offense. With Rubio on the floor, Mitchell presses which gets him into trouble because it forces him into bad situations where he’s taking bad shots. As a pg he has the ball, it relaxes him and he feels more comfortable within the offense. All he needs is time to fully understand his role as pg, and he’ll be fine. At the end of the day. He’s the franchise, Rubio isn’t.

Rubio, as much as I like him, he can’t be here next year.

Also, at the end of the day the defense is better because we aren’t playing two smallish players at the two guard positions. And O’Neale is a much better defender than both Mitchell and Rubio.
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Even with Mitchell's recent hot-streak, Mitchell's numbers on the season are better with Rubio on the court vs off the court. Same for the team's offensive rating.
 
Alfalfa said:
Ingles is not fast enough to defend the 2. Our perimeter defense would suffer with DM as the only true guard. It would probably also drain him to defend the opponent's best guard every night. Rubio will want a good multi-year contract, and it would be waste of money to resign him and make him an off-ball corner 3 shooter.

Royce can be easily shutdown in the playoffs given his limited ability to create on the wing, and he is currently not good enough to be a starter on a championship caliber team.

If we get someone like Mirotic, then we can not let go of Favors and Rubio, have Exum run the point with Mitchell (which I don't think is great) in the starting unit, and sign an MLE level vet guard.
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I disagree on Ingles... I think he's better on two guards than bigger 3s and 4s. He's not fast but reads angles, screeners and moves to the right spots. Makes up for some stuff with his wingspan. Long-term if he loses a step it aint great of course.

If Royce just spaces the floor he has done his job on offense imo... anything he gets on his drives or transition is a bonus. He's kinda PJ Tucker or Ariza to DM's Harden. my biggest issue with him is he doesn't shoot it enough when they swing it to him... he seems to have done that more lately. There is value to having a guy that knows who he is and when he doesn't have an open shot just moves it to someone quickly. Ideally he'd have a little more playmaking... has shown some ability there, but the handle seems to hold him back at times. I think he's a good passer, but still don't trust him much as a ball handler.
 
I really don’t want Rubio to come back. As much as anything, I think DM as the 1 is teaching him a lot and making him better.
 
Alfalfa said:
Sounds impossible. Mitchell has been averaging something like 28 ppg on great shooting since Rubio went down.
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The biggest difference was that Mitchell's 3pt% absolutely tanked when Rubio wasnt on the floor with him. He's shooting 28% on the year from 3 without Rubio, even with this huge hot streak.

With Rubio this year he's shooting 36% from 3.
 
LoPo said:
I was really not a fan of DSJ until I started watching OKC recently. If you have a decent coach, you find ways to get great players the ball. Westbrook and Schroder make them so dangerous.

If Quin can integrate DSJ and DM together, it could be amazing. Lots of risk though if he ends up being a cancer type player.

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Schroeder and Westbrook hold them back. Westbrook has cost the Thunder so damn much it's hilarious.
 
LoPo said:
Yeah, OKC should just waive and stretch Westbrook. He is terrible.

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He is really bad and cost them a lot.

Like last year in the playoffs where he let Rubio destroy him and then tried to go at Rubio hard despite that being an awful gameplan.

Or when he built the Golden State dynasty by blowing a 3-1 lead to the Warriors and pissing off KD enough to join them.

Or the handful of games he has cost them this year by chucking terrible shots, missing a ton of FT's, and just being awful.

If they traded him during the KD era, they'd probably have at least one ring and still have KD.
 
Thee jazz fan said:
There are other reasons for the slight dip in offensive production, and it’s not DM’s fault IMO.
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Most of it was his fault. His catch and shoot on open and wide open attempts was garbage in 2018 of this season. I mean, that was true of most of the team, so he's not in that boat alone.
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
He is really bad and cost them a lot.

Like last year in the playoffs where he let Rubio destroy him and then tried to go at Rubio hard despite that being an awful gameplan.

Or when he built the Golden State dynasty by blowing a 3-1 lead to the Warriors and pissing off KD enough to join them.

Or the handful of games he has cost them this year by chucking terrible shots, missing a ton of FT's, and just being awful.

If they traded him during the KD era, they'd probably have at least one ring and still have KD.
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Backed.

I still can’t believe how badly the ownership has ruined that team (and they’re STILL this good).
 
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