re: Anyone see that Pelicans I.G. post of C.J. and Durant working out together?

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Because people finally stopped fighting over Dyson.

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It’s not really worth arguing over someone who will never be more than a 7/8 man on this team…

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To be fair, it's as advertised. Elite defense, work in progress offense.

Issue is we should know who's our coach. Someone who doesn't give young guys room to grow and make mistakes.

I'm more tired of watching vets routinely play reckless and stay in for 20 minutes. But our young guys make a single mistake or a missed shot and pulled in 2

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Dyson's best games from 19-20 y/o

14 pts/ 8 reb/ 9 ast/ 1 stl/ 1-2 3pt

6 pts/ 6 reb/ 5 ast/ 6 stl/ 1blk

6 pts/ 8 reb/ 7 ast/ 2 stl/ 1blk

10 pts/ 6 reb/ 7 ast

10 pts/ 8 reb/ 7 ast/ 3 stl

14 pts/ 5 reg/ 6 ast/ 2-2 3pt 6-6fg


These are all stats of a player that is 3-4 years younger than (2) current starters.

The comment "he won't be more than a 7-8 man here" is just hate.

Either its because those people don't want him to be more than that here or because they personally don't think his value is that high.

He is already our 7-8 man.... He played 35min some games.

The best part is that many have said they want him to be our PG and he has been listed as a PG and can essentially cover 1-4 and yet we just have no room for him.

All that, plus you'd be selling low on him unless teams see what some of us see with his potential. Dude can lock down almost anyone he goes 1v1 with and he's young. There's so much potential on an almost Trey Murphy level with him.

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The argument from the haters is that Dyson does not have a shot and because of that he's automatically right now at 21 y/o essentially peaked and we should cut our losses. They don't think that will improve much and they don't think his defense outweighs the lack of offense.

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The same haters quit on naw and look at what he was for Minnesota.

The truth is, we as an organization are too impatient with young players. Aside from 3 guys who were "more mature" and a generational talent, we have yet to develop a single draft pick.

Eta: naw, hayes, Lewis, daniels, Hawkins - all young guys who need time.. Now all these guys may not be worth shite (Lewis, hayes) but we already proved we were bad with naw. Now we're about to do the same with daniels and Hawkins if we rather play jre, Marshall, and whatever random vet.

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The truth is, we as an organization are too impatient with young players

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The other issue is not allowing the young guys to play or not maximizing their play.

OKC was very fortunate in how they drafted but all of those guys have been playing 35min a game together.

If all of our rookies are sprinkled in 10-20min with 8 different players (some that usually aren't in long term plans) it isn't doing shite.

All of those Dyson stats above were essentially games > 25min played.

I'm willing to bet our rookie usage #'s the past 5 years have been one of the leagues worst which is unacceptable considering the mediocrity.

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I remember when we had Anthony Davis . A.D.was working out with Lebron. How did that go?

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Is what they were doing really considered "working out"?

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64 FGM/ 137 FGA: 46.7 FG%

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What was he from 3 in those games?

ETA: I think I just counted 19/57 33%, I also saw that he shot 37% from corner 3’s this season. Maybe he should just shoot corner 3’s and forget about above the break.

I literally posted in this thread just to frick with you, hence the laughing emoji in my first post, and you’re still melting