Admittedly, I am not 100 percent familiar with Tyreke as a player.
I thought he was a good shooter, but based on comments throughout this thread, maybe not.
If he's not a good shooter, then I would pass.
I think the skill of being a good shooter is being REALLY underestimated. Matter of fact, if the Celts had better shooters last season other than Terry and Lee, we may have beaten the Knicks.
The likes of Felton, Shumpert and Melo killed us with the outside shot.
In other words, what I am saying is if Tyreke can knock down a consistent jump shot and 3 pointer, pick him up!
If he's more of a pass first type player, then pass.
We have plenty of those. That's one of the problems I have with Avery Bradley. He may be great defensively and can sometimes knock down a jump shot, but he's limited offensively and not a very good ball handler. His turnovers killed us this year in the playoffs.
That's why I would actually rather just swap Humph to the Bobcats for Ben Gordon, who's a very good shooter.
When you compile some bigs and good shooters, you can space the floor so well and outplay the opposing team.
That's one thing Miami had going for it with Birdman/Bosh playing the paint, and the likes of Lebron/Ray/Battier knocking down 3s.
The problem was we didn't have playmaking and inside scoring. The offense we had was revolved completely around jump shooting.
With Rondo down, AB and old Pierce ran point.
An offense revolving around the worst shot in basketball - long 2s - is bound to be inferior. Top that off with the injuries.
AB was not a playmaker. That's his problem. Not that he wasn't a shooter.
We had nothing going on inside the paint. KG and Pierce could go there maybe once per game (exaggerating). Our 6'1 point guard was basically our only source of inside scoring and he went down.
A 6'6 bully who can penetrate at will will open up the offense.
Evans compliments AB perfectly. One is a playmaker, one plays off ball.
Question is if Evans can coexist with Rondo.
AB did. AB is not a great shooter. But he cut to the basket. Even in the half court he was so good with Rondo. In my opinion the idea that Rondo simply cannot coexist with non-shooters is untrue.
However, JG and CLee should have, in theory, been good cutters. They were not. It might be a result of Doc's offense. Might be because AB's simply a far superior off ball cutter.
We are rebuilding. Doesn't matter if the team is not filled out with role players yet. Ben Gordon is not a player that matters. If we get rid of Humphries and leverage Gordon into an asset/get a 2nd rounder in return, by all means. Otherwise, it doesn't matter right now.
Miami has LeBron and, to a lesser extent, Wade scoring inside, not the other way round. Birdman is not an inside threat. Bosh is reduced to being a spot up shooter. As you've said, their offense needs 2 things. Someone scoring inside and shooters feeding off that.
Evans would relieve Rondo's scoring load and playmaking load a lot.
I don't feel strongly about Smith or Evans but if we can get them cheap, by all means.
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