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It can be a very good signing. He can make life a lot easier for our young players with his floor-spacing. He is really a 4 (not quick enough as a 3), but it's possible we can play him as a SF on offense and let Bagley guard the opposing SF on D. It's not a big signing, but if the price is...

I didn't use Gordon as a comp but as a way to show the emphasis on shooting for current youg PF's (like you said - Bagley is a far superior on the offensive end and I would say that Gordon has a clear advantage as a defender). Griffin is somewhat similar, though a far superior passer and...

I think you are probably right, but PF's without a good 3PT shot aren't trending very well in the modern NBA. Look at a guy like Aaron Gordon for example - freak athlete with great defensive potential, yet his value is very much tied to his shooting. I really like the Amar'e comp for Bagley...

Outside the fact that I think that Doncic is currently a better defender for his position, he is a very vesatile player so you would have much more ways to handle is defensive shortcomings. Unless Bagley will drastically change the way he plays he is limited to the 4-5 positions. He hasn't...

I'm not sure if Bagley is (right now) a good enough shooter to work with (a hopefully healthy) Giles (or WCS for that matter), but I do think that long-term it will be smart to try and develop him as a more perimeter oriented player. At the moment I think Bagley will thrive as a C with shooters...

Didnt Calathes get banned for PED's? Nice roleplayer with pretty good defense but I hope we'll aim a little higher.

The way you view this franchise is quite sad. We can offer him the most money- that's leverage, it doesnt mean we need to outbid ourselves. He says he wants to stay here that's leverage. What's the alternative for him if you think he wants to stay here? taking less money on a shorter deal to...

I really dont get the automatic max argumemt... The best any other team can offer him is 140/4 we can offer 220/5 why wouldn't you try and get it down? 190/5 is still a far better deal than any other team can offer, you keep praising his loyalty and at the same time worried about him taking a...

That's the point- it wasn't all year, it was only -0.8 on the night you chose to post it, it isn't now and it wasn't so one game before you made the post so determining anything based on it is far from an exact science. As a whole while it is somewhat valuable it's not a perfect metric (just...

Sigh, you misread what I meant again- it's weird to have a cutoff regardless of where you put it (hence: "it's weird to have a cutoff, period"). And again the only thing that was remotely proven about that data is that as a whole it has some predictive power- and that whole includes so called...

It's weird to have a cutoff period. If you are basing it on data than the thing to look at is the current data. If you want to make an alternative point on the predictive power of point differential of games you think are worthy- go ahead and make that point, but the original post was mainly...

It's such a weird argument to make, as far as I can tell the thread isn't named "the predictive power of point differential calculated after 24 games". You can cherry pick when to calculate it to prove your narrative or try to reason which games should count and which shouldn't but that's taking...

I have been on the rebuild wagon for a while now, but the main reason is that I didn't think he'll resign with us- but if he is willing, you keep him without hesitatio, and I'm starting to think he is really serious (I think this makes him insane but that's a different discussion). If you are...

That's close to the value we'll probably get in a Cousins trade, if you change Smart to Rozier and throw in one of the euros they got the rights to in the draft (Zizic is averaging around 20&10 with 1.5 blocks this year, and Yabusele has good potential as a PF with size that can also stretch the...

Where did you find that stat?

But the order in which you picked them does matter, because you could've taken a different gut at 13 and still stay with Skal- in fact you could've not made a trade at all and just take whoever you liked with the 8th pick and still pickup Skal at 22. BTW- when did Skal became a consensus here...

Like he said, what you say is true on a specific instance but the bigger sample you have it has less meaning (though it's far from a perfect stat and some times "bad luck" does exist for certain player since the sample isn't that big). In that regard I think that checking the player as it...

You are going way too hard on him IMO. FA does come when they see a future and a plan and I'm pretty sure that's what he means by that- when you don't have much going forward (outside Cousins of course) nailing your picks is importan to rebuild your image. Minnesota just turned from the team...

You can't be serious. Judging advanced stats for his tiny amount of minutes this season is ridiculous, and unless you have a reason to think a 28 year old all of the sudden forgot how to play it's just plain foolish to look at it without mentioning his past production. Last year his TS was a...

1. What I tried to say was that you don't have to believe that it's "impossible" to build around him as you framed it, only that we failed to do it and in a way "missed our chance". 2. Another distinction in that case is that said trade is worthwhile for us is, as you said, that it's better than...