« Reply #13 on: June 16, 2021, 01:53:38 PM »
He seemed to get a raw deal. that roster was not set up well for success.
That roster is young but it has a ton of talent.
but it is ill fitting. Zion and Ingram don't fit very well together. Adams and Zion can't play together at all. Ball is a terrible shooter, which doesn't fit the offense being run by Zion and Ingram. Bledsoe is a horrid SG. The roster on the whole just isn't very good.
I don't disagree with any of that but I still think that ropster should've at least made the playin games.
Why though? I mean Zion was a 2nd year player that played only 24 games as a rookie (and a shorter off season since they were in the bubble). Zion got better as the year went on. Ingram didn't get better necessarily, but he didn't regress either. And the fit of those 2 is not great as they are both better with the ball in their hand and neither is a super elite shooter. Lonzo doesn't work well with them, but had his best season by far in his career. Bledsoe and Adams are just terrible fits on that roster, but there really wasn't anyone else worth playing those minutes to. Redick fell off a cliff. Most of the other young guys haven't looked very good (Hayes in particular). It just isn't a well put together roster at all. Zion is obviously going to be very good, but the roster isn't set up around his strengths either, which makes sense since he is the newer young guy. Given the growth of Zion under SVG, I just don't understand this move at all, unless Zion basically got him fired. That is the only reason this would make sense.
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