08-04-2021, 09:13 AM
(08-04-2021, 09:01 AM)vfromlmf Wrote: Lauri Markannen may want more, but his market price (Olynyk) looks to be around 3-years, $37 million. Mavs can offer that using the TPE.
Lauri is the more fluid in his motions but they are pretty much the same player. Lauri may improve somewhat, still hope he can take another level where he is now, though. He really needs to learn a true post up game and utilize his size to his advantage. Getting stronger without losing his fluidity would also immensely help him.
And it would be nice if he could learn to be a decent defender through smarts (because he doesn't have the quickness to be a good defender in space.... utilize his hands and be a decent thief a la Dirk.... or utilize timing a la Brook Lopez and be a decent shotblocker around the rim.
(Literally everything I wrote applies to KP as well but I'm not sure he has that "drive" to do those things. KP is too prima donna to improve IMO. Lauri may not be a lost cause.)