This team is deep with holes that could be filled, or not, depending on your confidence level IMO.

Yes, we should be pretty comfortable with Trey and Nance IMO, they can come in to spell 2-4 and Nance is a decent small ball 5 in short bursts, but not a real injury to JV backup option IMO (that guy is Billy right now)…Jose is great as a Pat Beverly style (at $10mm less) defensive energy guy.

That’s 8 guys.

Jax for all his flaws (and character/maturity seems to be a big one) was a playoff starter at the 4, if he takes a step up then it gives WG a lot of flexibility, but I think his best role is as a 4 and trying to make him a 5 is likely not going to work. Good 5s need to like contact and I don’t think Jax does, but his athleticism and length can get/keep him on the floor at the 4 if he can make enough shots to keep the floor spaced. Unfortunately that does make him a bit redundant with Nance and Tre, but over the course of the season that’s a nice luxury.

So that’s 9 guys.

The thing is we don’t really have great backups for JV and CJ and they are the older guys. I love Billy and he has played sneaky good when given minutes, but that still feels like a hole. And CJ feels like the most irreplaceable to me right now. No one on the squad really does what he does…maybe collectively they get the job done another way, but not a 1-1 player swap type backup.

Kira and Graham are still on the team too, which feels super redundant…I loved Kira’s development trajectory out of college and still think he could be a nice PG, but he has a lot to prove, and Graham is a small catch and shoot guy with limited defensive impact, which just screams “empty stats guy on bad team” or “end of bench Hail Mary option”.

This post was edited on 7/28/22 at 12:17 pm