03-30-2021, 10:02 AM
(03-30-2021, 09:09 AM)ItsGoTime Wrote: Ya, our guys aren't young anymore, we keep thinking of them as young potential guys. This is who they are, shooting % can get better, but the longer they age, the more athleticism they lose, so the shooting better get better.
I admit to finding myself falling into this way of thinking sometimes -- as if the core players are all somewhere around Luka's age. But when you stop to think about it, Maxi, THJ, and Powell are all already 29, and DFS and J Rich are 27.
If they keep working hard to improve, there are always things players can do in the offseason to acquire additional skills/work on shooting. But of course you are right that, at some point, perhaps sooner rather than later, improvements will be offset to some degree by declining athleticism.
I wonder what our collective tendency to think of Maxi, DFS, etc. as younger than they are reflects.