re: Jeff Teague or Dennis Schroeder

You can watch him and see his game. The only difference is he plays on a really good team and Anderson does not. Anderson HAS to play 30+ minutes on this team. He's a complimentary player on a contender; and it's not really him, it's guys with his skill set in general. Look at the top team, they don't have Ryan Andersons playing 30+ a night

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hypothetical crutch

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Ugh. It's a players performance based on per minute stats. There's nothing hypothetical about what they do on the court. Certainly, if a guy only plays 15 MPG, there's a lot of noise. But that doesn't mean it's a worthless statistic.

Same time, Mike Scott has been in the league for years. His skill set is well known and Anderson would be seeing the same minutes on that team.

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I want to figure out a way to substantially upgrade the 3

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Draft/trade and develop. There isn't a quick fix. Batum's going to get max money not because he's a max player, but because he's the best of a position that is in short supply and becoming very necessary to contend. That's why so many people were ready to throw away the season after 10 games, the likely top 2 picks in the draft project to be stud SFs.

Per 36 isn't good to project Aaron Gray as a starter as many people wanted to do with a guy that wasn't even an every game backup, but it is good for comparing guys in similar tiers but different minutes to each other. I also find it useful for seeing how a player compares to his previous years.

I don't see the motivation from Brooklyn or atlanta's side

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I don't see the motivation from Brooklyn

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Brooklyn supposedly wants to win this year. I've seen/heard that from multiple sources after the FO house cleaning. It seems crazy, but so is their owner. I think they want to give Boston as bad of a pick as possible. Joe Johnson is playing like garbage, Jack is out for the year. I don't know how long he'll be out, but RHJ is injured too. Yes they give up their only young piece, but they get 3 players that can play (assuming the deal happens closer to the deadline and Gordon's return), a starting quality PG on a reasonable deal, a backup center on a reasonable deal, which they don't really have, and I think they'd have a good shot at resigning Gordon since they like throwing money around. RHJ is a lot for Brooklyn to give up, but they're getting a decent amount back considering their situation.

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or atlanta's side

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If Atlanta doesn't blow it up and chooses Teague, a 1st for Schroeder seems fair but you probably need to get a 3rd team involved to help them win now. But I'm not all that interested in Schroeder, I think I'd rather take my chances with the pick.

Route 1: Draft, develop, and improve
Route 2: Free Agency and improve
Route 3: Trade picks and assets for young vets and improve

1: SAS, GS, and OKC; every other team
2: Major market teams or teams with lots of space
3: Us

we're the only idiots who decided to take route 3 and failed miserably at it.

I get it, 1st rounders outside of the top prospects are all about development and finding a fit. A lot fail, but at the same time there are players who develop. Issue is, DD decided to decrease the risk by getting young vets with name recognition that don't fit.

In what world does this work
4 1st rounders (1 being Rivers), 1 starting center (Lopez), and a decent backup PG (Vasquez)

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Starting PG (Holiday), a combo guard (Evans) when you have a better one who can shoot (Gordon), and another worse starting center (Asik).

All while trying to duct tape (QPon, Cunningham, and Gee) the arguably most important position in this decade, small forward.

That is ridiculously stupid

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Does MT5 count? He did pretty well

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forgot about him. He's a bit of an outlier as well, being that he was picked 43rd, and then we had an idiot coach drive him away, so sure.

This article from TBW is pretty good.

To me, this quote nails it.

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The organization, as a whole, is impatient with almost everything. Practically the only things where the organization is not impatient are with trades & with Anthony Davis. That's it. And to me, that's the scariest part. Not that we're losing or we've changed our system -- those are all by-products of the single thing that scares me - our organization's impatience

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You ask about turning all those assets into what they currently have, and this quote speaks to that directly. That type of scenario is just what bad NBA organizations do. At the moment, the Pels are just a bad organization.

They drafted CP3 in 2005, so Rondo/Lowry can be forgiven. Thabo was definitely an option, but they were looking for bigs. Regardless, this was one of the worst drafts from top to bottom.

31 teams passed on Millsap.