Taurean Prince Discussion: Bucks

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  1. lakerjones

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    Definitely starter material. He was great tonight.
     
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    Continuing his great performances sjnce preseason. Offensively, hes solid, the shooter we signed. Defensively though, he’s a little too slow to throw on the best guards. He couldn’t keep up with Murray through screens.
     
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    I don't like him on PGs, he'll do his best but that's not how he should be used. If he's on the court with a SG and a PG and he was, one of them have to do better and take the assignment.

    Defensively, I like him against (in order): SFs, smaller PFs, bigger SGs, and anything else should be handled by someone who's is here to handle that assignment.
     
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    Reaves and D'Angelo can't guard high end guards either though. Every backcourt we faced in the playoffs smoked us. That trend continued last night. Those two have to shoot better from the field in order to compensate for that.
     
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    Team needs guys Caruso and Dennis. Oh wait the Lakers had both?
     
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    Our MVP last night, really great. Perfect fit with our top 4. I think he's locked as a starter.

    On the guards' defense, yeah Reaves and Dlo aren't great stoppers either. It's still a problem in this team. We just have to make it harder for them and hope for the best
     
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    He has been better than I expected.
     
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    Imagine what the Lakers would be capable of if they had kept Caruso, KCP, and Kuzma this entire time and then drafted Reaves... That Russ trade seriously screwed everything up and then re-signing THT instead of Caruso was obviously the most idiotic move.
     
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    You’re kind of new here? Beware of @Slick2021 with his takes on that whole situation.

    :LLLLLebronlaughing:
     
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    It didn't have to be THT or Caruso; could have been both. Remember they spent money on Nunn!

    But overall the sentiment is correct. Team with Caruso, KCP, Kuzma, Reaves and don't forget Schroeder would be on that would be steamrolling teams right now and last year
    (I still like this Lakers team though: really like Prince and Wood and Reddish may have a place on a good team after all)
     
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    Schroder at 21mil a year. You weren't re-signing everyone then.
     
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    Folks keep forgetting that for some reason. That team was already over the cap, and still had to figure out, what to do at PG.
     
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    bird rights all around. didn't have to worry about the cap. obviously didn't while paying russ literally 20X his actual on-court value.
     
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    Could he be the first 3pts shooter to break the Lakers curse ? I hope so
     
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    No..they didn't want to go deep into the tax payer situation, because we were already over the cap without signing Tucker or Caruso, and Dennis was still unsigned. So they traded salary on the books for Westbrook, and simply kept Tucker over Caruso.
     
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    they didn't have to worry about the cap. that's a choice. the clippers and warriors didn't.
     
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    We literally operated with those cap concerns so to dismiss them in order to have some sort of unrealistic super team doesn't seem a very worthy exercise
     
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    we don't actually know which cap concerns we operated with, but i'd suggest not saying things are impossible when they're not.
     
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    Sucked tonight,but Wood covered for him
     
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    Talk about hot and cold.
     
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