Yes, we are at our ceiling right now and this is because basketball is a team sport. For example, as great as the Thunder were with KD, Russ, and Serge, they were likely at their ceiling because of how the rest of the team was built. On that note...
Tatum-Brown-Kemba
Those are your 3 best players, in that order. Keep those 3 and think about retooling this team. What do those 3 need to be successful? Who are the next 5-6 guys you need in your rotation?
Theis, I think is a no brainer. Keep him. But ideally he’s a backup
Grant Williams too. If he improves (especially his shooting) he can be big for us. But I think he can make strides to be your starting 4, as a corner knockdown shooter.
And that’s about it.
- C’s need a vet playmaker
- C’s need a shooter specialist
- C’s need a mobile, coachable big who can make high IQ plays but doesn’t need plays run for him to be effective
Those for me are the high prio skillsets. We don’t have a shooter, and we’re overloaded with playmakers and inefficient scorers.
agree with most everything with one significant exception: the three best players whom the c’s should build around are tatum, brown, smart.
marcus shot poorly tonight and his penchant for jacking threes can be excruciatingly frustrating but let’s not allow tonight’s pain to blind us from the games during these playoffs when he carried us and this forum was ready to deify him. kemba was not only a complete no-show this playoffs, but he was a huge liability in the final two rounds.
if danny adds exactly what you mentioned, a vet playmaker, a shooter, and a quality big, marcus doesn’t need to shoot as much, and can focus on facilitating on offense, in which he excels. find a poor man’s rondo who doesn’t expect to score but sets up tatum and brown, and isn’t a defensive liability, and we’re a much improved team.
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