re: Kira

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You’re right, but that’s not what Pels would ask Kira to do. He would excel in pushing pace for the transition game and putting pressure in the paint to open up the floor. You are also right in that its secondary to fixing the slow frontcourt.

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I firmly believe Kira would be the best to keep if I had to choose between Kira/Jose/DG. If you wanna push tempo at times (& I think we should)...then Kira is your man.

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One thing DG provides as a role player is off the ball movement and keeping his defender close to him most of the time b/c he gets his shot off quickly. Even when DG isn't shooting great from 3, he's still commanding the defenses attention when he's on the court, and that is an extremely important trait to have if you're going to play for this team.

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I’m sorry, while I agree with what you said, I don’t believe you’re allowed to say anything positive about Graham on this site. As far as I can tell he’s nearly solely responsible for our current losing streak.

Kira is probably not the answer to our problems but I sure as hell would like to play him and find out than watch anymore of graham

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My issue with Graham is that he just misses too much. I could live with his d since he hustles but the dude just is not a good enough shooter. 34 percent for a specialist sucks.

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I get what you're saying, but despite his shooting %, he is still demanding attention from his defender and pulling him away from the lane for the most part, and that role is very helpful WHEN ZION IS PLAYING.
Mirotic was 35% in 3 years for us, yet someone was in his jock strap at all times.

and you have to remember it's not like he's a pivotal player on the team. When everyone is healthy he's playign 10 minutes a game if at all, and that can vary depending on if he's hot or not.

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Especially when they're wide open 3's too.

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Well he's shooting 46% on wide open 3's this year. Only 34% of his shots are wide open. You can look at that and say well he needs to take more wide open shots, or you can say well maybe his defenders simply aren't leaving him wide arse open too often. DG isn't someone who just sits in the corner and waits for a pass. He's running around screens all the time on offense, and that causes confusion for the defense, and all of this is a positive WHEN ZION PLAYS.



And i'll say it again, i have no problem trading DG, but we have to get back a guy that can provide that type of spacing either right now or in the offseason. Doug McDermott.

DG/Jax/Kira to Spurs/Pistons, McDermott and Burks to Pels. Don't even need to trade a 1st for that to happen, although i'd be fine with it if they gave us back one of their 2nds this year.

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and you have to remember it's not like he's a pivotal player on the team. When everyone is healthy he's playign 10 minutes a game if at all, and that can vary depending on if he's hot or not.

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While true, we gave up a 1st rounder for him, so that is part of what makes it a disappointment.

Based on the acquisition cost, there's an expectation for him to produce but he hasn't done so on the level we expected.