Pels shouldn’t have paid BI if he can’t close games

That's fine. Just give it to Zion. At least he's aggressive

Thank God we got our Batman then

BI was the Batman last season, he needs to realize he's not that anymore and this is Zion's team and he needs to play Robin.

We traded one robin for another. BI got paid so SVG has find a way to prove the office made the right decision

B.I. got what he was worth. Money doesn't make you the no. 1 guy but being an elite talent gets you max money. He is worth every fricking penny.

Horrednous shot but Zo shouldn't be jacking up clutch 3s either and Brandon fought to put himself in a position to salvage the play.

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Especially when your Batman is on a team friendly contract for now.

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Maybe Batman will keep his team friendly contract in 3 years (his contract will be enough to repair his batmobile in 3 years).

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Ingram would be on the bench or the trade block if I were the GM.

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Holy shite this is the worst take I’ve seen in a good long while. Up there with the Keldon Johnson>>>Zion takes Spurs Twitter was dishing out a month ago. You wanna get rid of a guy who was an All-Star at age 22, is putting up better numbers despite a lower usage rate this year, and is only gonna get better all cause of one fricking game? fricking insanity. Zion and BI have to learn to play together and it’s gonna take a little bit longer than the 45 games they’ve shared the court for. So calm the frick down, it’s gonna be alright. It’s probably a bad idea to trade a franchise center piece because he had a bad night.

So do you think Zion can do it by himself every possession for 48 minutes a game? That everyone else should just clear out and let Zion go? We saw tonight what can happen. Portland started aggressively doubling him and forcing the ball out of his hands. I mean I’m all for doing it as much as is reasonable, but at the end of the day, the NBA today is all about shot creation, mostly for ones self. BI is the only player on the team who can do that consistently other than Zion, and to be honest I’m not sure anyone else even has the potential. So BI doesn’t “hijack” possessions, he’s merely just another option, a highly efficient one at that. We’re talking about a guy who takes most of his shots from mid range or 3 and still has a TS% of 59.5%. His assist numbers continue to rise and his turnover percentages are down sharply from last season as well. You have to have that secondary creator in order to win shite in this league and think BI will develop into one of the very best in the NBA.

Oh, and he shot 46% in the 4th last year, so he’s shown he can take and make big shots. He’s struggling this year no doubt, but I’d wait a while before we completely write the kid off.

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You could argue he's not efficient at it yet, but to say he doesn't want the clutch shot is just nonsensical

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fair enough, you make a valid point. Definitely efficiently then ( stolen from game thread)In 43 minutes of clutch play this year, Brandon Ingram is 7-26 (26.9%), 0-7 from three, and has 6 turnovers.

For his career he is 58-164 (35.4%) in clutch situations.
... it’s just frustrating that we don’t have a guy that can finish games. I thought BI was the answer clearly I was wrong