What are the teams wants or needs. Do they need shooting,  defense,  bigs,  we can give you anything besides quality PGs, and they have Morant.

Let's make a deal. How about Romeo, and our two most exciting prospects Grant Williams and Carsen Edward's.

It is really hard to tell.

Memphis are not really a team with a plan. They just have a lot of depth and youth. Try to win. One major young talent in Ja Morant & one interesting young talent in JJJ. Outside of them, it is unclear what they plan to do with anybody.

Which makes it very hard to tell what it would take to get Kyle Anderson. Complicating matters further is that Kyle himself is a strange player whose value fluctuates wildly depending on who is doing the talking. Where do Memphis stand on him as an individual player? Is Kyle part of their long term future?

Or is Kyle a bad fit next to Morant because of his limited outside shooting and reluctant to put up jump-shots? Does that make him a bad floor spacer? Does he limit their best player Ja Morant? Well, yes, he does. Should Kyle be part of their long term future? Probably not.

Then again, who the heck knows what Memphis' long term plans are. There is no plan there that I can see. Other than another step towards mediocrity. Nothing based around winning a Championship. So does Kyle help make them mediocre? Yes, yes he does. Does that mean they want to keep? Yeah maybe so.

I have not got a clue what this team is trying to do / is thinking / or how they value Kyle Anderson. The price for him could be surprisingly low to far too high. It is just ... what the heck are they doing!?

What is the fascination with Kyle Anderson? He never seemed all that great to me.

Quote from: KG Living Legend on July 05, 2021, 04:35:56 PM

 What are the teams wants or needs. Do they need shooting,  defense,  bigs,  we can give you anything besides quality PGs, and they have Morant.

Let's make a deal. How about Romeo, and our two most exciting prospects Grant Williams and Carsen Edward's.

So one unproven 2nd year player and two G-Leaguers for a starter? That’s not how these things work.

Quote from: Who on July 05, 2021, 07:10:16 PM

It is really hard to tell.

Memphis are not really a team with a plan. They just have a lot of depth and youth. Try to win. One major young talent in Ja Morant & one interesting young talent in JJJ. Outside of them, it is unclear what they plan to do with anybody.

Which makes it very hard to tell what it would take to get Kyle Anderson. Complicating matters further is that Kyle himself is a strange player whose value fluctuates wildly depending on who is doing the talking. Where do Memphis stand on him as an individual player? Is Kyle part of their long term future?

Or is Kyle a bad fit next to Morant because of his limited outside shooting and reluctant to put up jump-shots? Does that make him a bad floor spacer? Does he limit their best player Ja Morant? Well, yes, he does. Should Kyle be part of their long term future? Probably not.

Then again, who the heck knows what Memphis' long term plans are. There is no plan there that I can see. Other than another step towards mediocrity. Nothing based around winning a Championship. So does Kyle help make them mediocre? Yes, yes he does. Does that mean they want to keep? Yeah maybe so.

I have not got a clue what this team is trying to do / is thinking / or how they value Kyle Anderson. The price for him could be surprisingly low to far too high. It is just ... what the heck are they doing!?

A small market team like Memphis would be silly to focus on winning the championship.  They want to get back to where they were.  A competitive team that made the playoffs 7 straight seasons and got past the 1st round in 3 of those seasons.   They want a team that puts butts in the seats. 

Anderson shot 36% on 3.8 3pt attempts in only 27.3 minutes per game.  That's not a bad fit with Morant.  They need a versatile player like him.  I suspect they'll be happy to re-sign him to a reasonable contract.

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What is the fascination with Kyle Anderson? He never seemed all that great to me.

He’s a good role player at a position of need who makes under $10 million, which means he both fits our trade exception or Tristan Thompson’s salary, and likely isn’t that expensive to acquire.  It’s pretty easy to see how he’d fit on the roster.  When looking at reasonable ways to improve the team, it makes sense that he’s on the list.

He’s not great, you’re right (although a few years ago he led the league in defensive box plus-minus, so he’s certainly not bad).  But Grant Williams and Semi Ojeleye played over 2,000 minutes last year, and if the bulk of those had gone to Kyle Anderson we’d have been better off.

TP. The bolded statement is massive, and, IMO, one of the easiest paths to meaningful improvement next year. Step 1 is of course health. But step 2 is simply replacing the gobs of minutes we used last year on 4A players.

Actually ...wouldn't good health, all by itself, fix the extended minutes played by "4A" players? Or at least a whole bunch of it?