Luol Deng Discussion: No #Dengdump, Rather Stretched Into Cash

Yes.

 

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But no. As Weezy says it could backfire and drive his value further down plus whose minutes does he take. Certainly can't give him meaningful rotation minutes at the 4 or 3.

 

that Twitter acct really think deng can still because of some charity bball gm? might as well start looking at the dreweague while we at it

 

Give him garbage time minutes

That will really chaffe him

 

So we sit on his contract till it expires... brilliant!

 

OK how many token minutes a game and whose are you giving him? Do token minutes do any good?

From Deng dump to play Deng?

 

We played the kiddies last year to highlight/develop them for potential free agents this summer. I completely understand why we did it last year, but considering the injuries we faced and the next man up getting injured as well (Zo goes down, so place BI at that spot and then he goes down), Deng at spot minutes made sense to me (especially after the trade deadline) but we chose to keep him shut down so in a way we hurt his trade value more. If the dude isn't getting called up while we're down players, what does that say about how we value him? Other teams see that too and we just deaded his value even more with that tactic.

This season is completely different. We got our free agent to commit. Even if Bron plays a similar position, there's talk of going small and having Bron play as a gimmicky center, so that still leaves Deng available to play next to Bron as it does our other wing players. That alone should open up the floor for dude and raise his trade value.

Putting less on our kids also places them further away from a season killing injury...not to mention LABron as well.

Deng's value is trash. So play him spot minutes and let's put less burden on our more valuable assets. If he's still garbage or injures himself we dead his trash value even more and y'all can have your wish as we sit on his contract till it expires....but what if he balls out and is serviceable?

Why not find out?

 

Sacrificing wins just to see if Dung can raise his trade value is a gambler's folly, guy is done and out of shape

 

But how do you know that if you don't at least give it a shot?

We lost our young players (injuries), lost 47 games (no playoffs and lost the 10th overall pick to Philly when we coulda killed that pick further) and lost further value in Deng because everybody saw enough of what they needed to see in 13 total minutes of action last year...

And that's not folly?

 

He was playing hard in this exhibition game but still missing defensive assignments, and was pushed several times by his teammates towards the opposing player he is supposed to defend...I don't know if we can all endure that for even a minute in an actual game.

 

Deng is exactly the type of experienced veteran we were looking for this offseason.

If he was 5 years younger
If he was 15 lbs lighter
and if his contract was under 5 mil

 

LOL is this even possible?

For the record - I am with @vasashi17 (did I just write that) in that I want to at least see what Deng can do this year. I would have him on a short leash but id like to give him a little burn early on to see what we have (or more than likely what we don't have)

 

I think we should’ve found a way to give Deng an opportunity in the rotation last year. Would’ve rather thrown him out there to see if he could raise his value over giving minutes to someone like Travis Wear.

Now I don’t think there is an opportunity for him. We have too many guys fighting for minutes who all deserve it way more than Deng.

Also, dude still looked incredibly washed up in that NBA Africa game. Yeah he had 13 points, but there were all pretty much on layups where the defense didn’t really try anything.

 

How did our youngn's handle the load last year? I'm all about letting these dudes develop and giving them minutes... But do it responsibly.

I feel both parties are misinterpretting what the other side is saying. But in reality we're much more like of mind than it appears.

We both want what's good for the team and our youth. But I'm bringing up the double positive that you up Deng's trade value while responsibly handling the minutes of our squad (particularly the young guys that couldn't handle that type of load last year...to the detriment of our team).

So...


Btw, @jbiggs dont act like this is the 1st time