DRAFT: #18 [Green] & #31 [Terry] & trade for #36 [Tyler Bey]

[Dundalis]

I'd also say the current roster construction combined with the development of Luka today would result in Barnes fitting in much better with the current team. THJ is every bit the black hole Barnes is, and was hot garbage the second half of last season post trade jacking up bricks at a level of inefficiency we've never seen from Barnes, but puts up a career shooting year this season and people start singing his praises. His shooting reverts to somewhere close to the norm, which is probably more likely than not, he's ultimately just a less talented version of Barnes.

I disagree about the similarity between THJ and Barnes. They're not similar and Barnes doesn't provide a better version of what THJ does. And Tim is not the black hole that Barnes is. We're just seeing a different game. 

Also, Barnes didn't want to be converted to a 3-D player. He wants to be an all around player. He doesn't want to be a catch and shoot player, and THJ is fine with it. Barnes wants to be thrown the ball so he can go to work. That player isn't compatible with our offense. 

If HB had been willing to be a 3-D player, and be paid like one, he might have been a fit.

There's some merit to that analysis, but I don't have any evidence that Barnes would be completely unwilling to change his play style. Basically the point is that THJ's value is incredibly heavily weighted around his 3pt efficiency. He's basically useless without it IMO and would barely merit a place on the bench. THJ is a black hole too, that's not really debatable I don't think. But it's fair that Barnes TOP is higher as he preferred to spend time working in isolation, where THJ will just catch and shoot or one dribble shoot. But again, I'm not debating Barnes wasn't a good fit. The praise of THJ is too based in recency bias for me though. The likelyhood he reverts much closer to his mean scoring efficiency after an outlier season is pretty high. Don't understand the comments where fans want to resign him already. I don't like his value based so heavily on something he's proven completely inefficient at throughout his career.