Regardless on how you feel about BI...you simply cannot give him 50mill a year

Everything you said is correct.

Giving him 50 million to sulk around off ball and only dribble around and take pull up midrangers when he's on ball would be a death sentence for this team

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Everything you said is correct.

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aaaaaaaaaaand David Griffin is going to give him $50m/year.

No team, even desperate, will give him that 50mil annually.

Think teams are becoming smarter about these tier 2 players getting that huge contract. They run into the Bradley Beal, Russell Westbrook, etc issues.

I still stand by my opinion that Ingram wants to be here, but you need to get him and zion on the same page because the two of them look like Westbrook and Durant. Your turn my turn iso ball.

You drafted the literal perfect replacement for him. A guy that fits PERFECTLY in a starting lineup next to almost any player but especially a Zion type.

I'm exploring trades with teams like Indy in multiple team deals, see if you can get a combo of players that just fit better and a pick or 3

I’m not advocating for paying him $50 mill, but I do think some people
are going way overboard in criticizing his play.

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The thing is, you have to be willing to lose the press conference, but win the trade long term

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Let’s see. He seems emotionally attached to BI. Maybe it’s because he got so little in the end for Lakers trade. Maybe they just get along personally. But reality is if we pay BI max, we’re in big trouble. If we can see that surely he can. Also, he was shopping BI for Scoot clearly. It didn’t work out because he overvalued BI. Now that BIs value is at a low let’s see if he avoids sunk cost fallacy.

I couldn’t agree more, dude is a solid NBA player but he’s not a 300 mil guy. He and Zion don’t mix well so u have to trade 1 of the 2 and I’ll take the high upside guy because we’ve seen it work. Bi dribbles the ball for 14 seconds and takes a highly contested mid range is not a winning recipe in this league, playoffs yes but regular season no

I think Trey would become your second star once he takes the BI minutes. Then you add Jordan Hawkins, Matt Ryan, and CJ’s shooting into the equation and you have something there.

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Shamit Dua @FearTheBrown

Can you find where the ball drops and offense stagnates

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In that case I think you're right. I bought tickets to the Lakers home win last year. Turned out the seats were on Griffs row, 3 seats away. One thing I noticed was he kept telling the guy next to him he wanted more passing, at that time he was talking about CJ. Something I felt last year was that CJ was a little more of a ball stopper at times. I obviously haven't sat next to him this year but I'd bet he's making that same motion about BI...

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One thing I noticed was he kept telling the guy next to him he wanted more passing, at that time he was talking about CJ. Something I felt last year was that CJ was a little more of a ball stopper at times.

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CJ was a ball stopper last year. But, to his credit, he fully bought into the system this year. CJ has been fantastic this year about making quick decisions to shoot, pass, or drive.

Ingram has absolutely refused to buy in. In the Denver game alone, Zion set him up with about 6 or 7 wide open shots. Instead of taking the open shot or making a quick move, he waited for the defender to come to him before proceeding to make 3 or 4 moves off of the dribble before taking a long, contested 2 pt shot. It completely negates Zion's gravity, and makes it so difficult to get an offensive rebound when he misses.

I was really hoping that he would become even better playing off of Zion. But he has clearly shown that he has no interest in being anything other than "the guy".

So far this season, Zion initiating his shot out of the post is just bad. Like probably below average not by Zion standards, but just by NBA player standards.

Still solid face up and off the dribble, but the post up/back to the basket thing needs to either improve vastly or just toss it out. It's gross right now


He's in year 5, and maybe twice per year he'll make that 10-12 foot turnaround jumper and it looks nice, and we all talk about how it's game over if he does that consistently. But again, it's year 5 and he does that once or twice a year, so seems pretty obvious that's not happening.