re: Ish Smith

I believe the "hot take" is acting like there can't be a middle ground. He can both be a limited player AND a huge part in why we have played well the last four games. He could both be a guy who hurts our spacing in the half court, but finds a way to impact the game in other ways and occassionally knock down the open shot

My contention is that he is solid player when he is on the court with other good players. Early in the season, when he was playing heavy minutes with two other 10th men types in most lineups, that killed us. Put him on the floor with Jrue or Gordon, Ryno, AD, and a wing and he does his job.

But the book is far from written. He is not great, he is not terrible. He has skillsets that the team can take advantage of and he has liabilities that can hurt the team in the wrong lineups.