« Reply #1819 on: February 06, 2019, 11:58:55 AM »
Harris is obviously a great weapon and a major upgrade from Chandler. Boban also can do some stuff extremely well (and some other stuff very poorly). And Scott is a solid bench PF. They got a lot beefier around the 3-5 range.
But their guard corps is awful, especially on D - they're gonna have substantial stretches of TJ McConnell trying to stay with Kyrie and Rozier. I have no idea who guards Brown and Morris if Butler's on the bench or otherwise occupied. If they don't get a solid defense + shooting PG either by tomorrow or in buyout season, they're going to have real problems at the 1+2. They really should've asked for Beverly instead of Boban.
And that's without getting into how they emptied their draft pick supply and Harris and Butler could both skip town in 3 months.
Bottom line we're still gonna bust their ass. Or the Bucks or Raps will before we get there. But this doesn't really change their standing in the pecking order.
Probably the two players best suited to play next to Simmons in the entire league are Patrick Beverley and Avery Bradley. Both are built to defend quick point guards but aren't true pg's themselves and can spot up for 3. Philly makes a deal with the team that has both of them and doesn't get either.
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