Jukeboxhero

Dear Diary,

I haven't been watching. Who is the primary defender on Favors?

I wouldn't blame Bennett bc a historically idiotic franchise and overall sports city drafted him number 1. Anybody that watched him for 5 minutes in college should have easily realized that he is a 14th or 15th man on a bad team at best. The clowns also drafted Dion Waiters at #4 one year.

Let's just keep it simple and blame Demps. He's obsessed with cashing in possible high upside/ low cost assets for high priced/average to slightly above average assets. He does ok on the smaller deals, but his big picture vision for building a contender around AD proved to be absolutely horrible.

I would just keep Asik if he plays like this and we continue to play him 20 plus minutes.

Played 30 tonight. First 18 minutes were elite. Last 12 minutes were the worst I've ever seen him play.

I wonder also if there is a conditioning issue. No knock on Jrue, but he's missed a ton of time the last 2 years with an injury that has probably made it difficult to maintain starting nba point guard level conditioning.

Combine that with how hard he generally plays and Gentry's uptempo system and he very well may have tired legs. If he doesn't now, he most certainly might in the coming weeks as this is the most games he has played in 3 years. These factors may be contributing to the Pels analytics stance of how many minutes they think Jrue can play and play at a high level.

That being said, it's still inexcusable to trot out Cole for 35 ish minutes as routinely as we do. It's funny, even when Cole has a solid 44-48% night from the field he finishes with less points than shots bc he generally hits zero fts or 3's.

Jrue turned a Damn good shooting game 8-10 thru 3 to a pretty mediocre shooting game. 0-7 in the 4th.

He played well early but Jrue had about 5 bad possessions in a row before the last drive and kick.

I see Jaylen projected in the top 5 quite a bit. We will probably be drafting in the 12-18 range. Guys do drop from time to time (Ex: Winslow to 10) so perhaps there is a slight chance. Would be a nice pick. Bit of a project, but has the tools to be great one day.