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Stakesarehigh

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If Harden actually plays all year getting him 50th overall in fantasy is a heck of a steal.
 

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Last night’s substations looked like Homecoming for a Football team when seniors who seldom play get to play. If you weren’t on the roster last year, you didn’t play. (Except for Pickett who came in the last minute.) Strawther was probably the most impressive player off the bench in PS and he didn’t play a second. I expect some growing pains playing a couple of the rookies, but it will be necessary to get them up to NBA speed.

As far as Jordan, Malone is high on character guys on the bench who never complain (see Bones Highland) and Jordan is the bench warmer leader. He’s respected by teammates and when he occasionally gets in a game, at least he can snare a few rebounds. I have no issue with him being the 15th guy.

kind of a younger Udonis I suspect
 

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So yesterday's Suns and Warriors game would have been vastly different from a lot of perspectives if Beal and Draymond were both playing.

However even with the L, I'm highly encouraged. The bench for one thing is so much better than last year that it's not even funny. Kuminga and Moody are set to take a leap this year. Saric is a great pickup and going to play a lot of quality minutes. GP2 is healthy and he's just as disruptive on defense as ever. Plus when healthy, I'll assume CP3 is on the bench which in itself is going to be great for this team.

The Warriors lost by 4, despite shooting 36% from the field, 23% from 3. Wiggins had easily the worst game he's had in a Warriors uniform. They missed at least 7-8 layups that easily should be made, with an additional 4-5 that were tougher finishes but do-able.

The defense was phenomenal. Adding Draymond to the backline is just going to make it better. Warriors will shoot better so I'm very optimistic. Should be a fun season.
 

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Saric is a guy who always seems to perform when he gets minutes and I'm always surprised he doesn't get more of them.
He has zero lift around the basket, lol, which I didn't notice until yesterday. But he's going to be able to stretch the floor and seems like he has a good feel on offense. Defense will likely be the issue mostly for him within the scope of the game, so we'll see how that turns out.
 

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Last night’s substations looked like Homecoming for a Football team when seniors who seldom play get to play. If you weren’t on the roster last year, you didn’t play. (Except for Pickett who came in the last minute.) Strawther was probably the most impressive player off the bench in PS and he didn’t play a second. I expect some growing pains playing a couple of the rookies, but it will be necessary to get them up to NBA speed.

As far as Jordan, Malone is high on character guys on the bench who never complain (see Bones Highland) and Jordan is the bench warmer leader. He’s respected by teammates and when he occasionally gets in a game, at least he can snare a few rebounds. I have no issue with him being the 15th guy.

Him being the mascot 15th man like haslem js one thing

Him being jokics backup is a whole separate issue
 

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Saric is a guy who always seems to perform when he gets minutes and I'm always surprised he doesn't get more of them.

Because defense…exists
 

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I disagree with that. It’s risky having him around the team if he’s negative and not committed. Let him stay away and don’t exercise your option to withhold money.

Imagine saying he’s too valuable to trade but not enough to pay him…
 

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Him being the mascot 15th man like haslem js one thing

Him being jokics backup is a whole separate issue
Whether it’s right or wrong, I think that Malone will primarily use Nnaji as the backup to Jokic.
 

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On the Harden thing seems like purely a smokescreen to get him traded, if that’s possible.
 

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Whether it’s right or wrong, I think that Malone will primarily use Nnaji as the backup to Jokic.

Yeah I’d be adding a vet 5 like favors and using some of the dead weight salary like cancar and Jordan to aggregate to another vet

If the theyre gonna keep jordan and Jackson all year their aggregation options are limited
 

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Because defense…exists
Also depends on who else is around him. If he's playing on the back unit with say CP3, GP2, Wiggins and Draymond, that's going to hide a ton of his deficiencies there.

It will be very interesting to see the rotations and lineup mixes that Kerr puts together. There's a lot of great combinations now that could be made from game to game.
 

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Yeah I’d be adding a vet 5 like favors and using some of the dead weight salary like cancar and Jordan to aggregate to another vet

If the theyre gonna keep jordan and Jackson all year their aggregation options are limited
Cancar is out for the year with an injury happening with the Slovenia team. Not much can be done about that salary.
 

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Cancar is out for the year with an injury happening with the Slovenia team. Not much can be done about that salary.

You aggregate and turn it into a useful player
 

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Not the only reason, and players were not rushed back. Injuries were not chronic ones either. AD is in his prime, expecting random injuries is counter-intuitive.

lol

Since he joined the Lakers, the most regular season games AD has played has been 62 and that was the bubble season. Outside of that it has been 36, 40 and 56.

Seems that expecting random injuries isn't counter-intuitive at all. His history shows that it's more likely than not that he will miss significant time.
 
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