re: Marc Stein on EG10 rumors from Reno DLeague showcase

Signing Jefferson makes no sense in the context of the next 3 or 4 years, unless they are giving up on Davis as a frontcourt player or dealing Anderson.

Why throw a max contract at a player to strengthen what is already the strongest part of your team?

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Same way Anderson plays with Lopez and Davis now. Whoever's hot will stay in. Not hard

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Lopez averages about 10 less minutes per game than Jefferson. Unless they are going to hour long games, finding 30+ mpg for Davis, Anderson, and Jefferson will be very difficult.

Plus this hot hand stuff here is getting a bit ridiculous. It's working now with young players but in no way is sustainable when you're talking about Davis (potential franchise player), Anderson (quasi All-Star) and Jefferson (quasi All-Star) plus Lopez/Smith over the next 3-4 years. Professional athletes have egos and they all want to play. What happens when Lopez, Smith, Jefferson, Anderson, and Davis are all having good nights? You play Smith/Lopez because they have the slightly more hot hand?

Hot hand at this point is fine and is working because Davis is a 19 year old rookie hitting the wall right now. That won't happen much going forward. Adding a max contract big creates unnecessary problems.

Again, the frontcourt is the best part of the team, why spend 1/4 of the cap on something that doesn't need much fixing?

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Like I said, if you get another legit scoring option, we could live with him. It's not just the scoring. It's the nights when he can't shoot, dribble, catch a pass, etc. Very inconsistent.

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Like I said, if he continues to play at the level we've seen to start the season and the last few games, he is a starter. Plenty of time to see if he can do that.