01-23-2021, 04:23 PM
(01-23-2021, 04:15 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: Well, it's clearly more questionable than many of us thought initially.
I can't remember where I heard this (sorry), but there were definitely some whispers after the trade that Curry wasn't super tight with the rest of the team in the locker room. The suggestion wasn't that he was a bad presence on the team at all, just that he wasn't as super into the team chemistry as the rest of last year's team clearly was. I don't think this is/was a huge problem - the only reason I bring it up is to point out that the whole "wanted to be here" thing MIGHT have changed a bit over the course of last season.
I agree about the contract - was the best thing about him, imo. Ultimately, I guess that's what made him so easy to move fore value.
I think it's interesting that Richardson has exceeded your expectations. I think he had a superb preseason, but once the games started to matter I felt really underwhelmed by his contributions. I fully realize that he's a new player trying to feel his way out on a new team, and that Covid can't have helped, but my early impressions of him are that he's kind of a black hole on offense. They probably want him to do some creating, but idk, I just felt like he was choosing the wrong times to stop the ball a little too often. I actually saw an NBA math graphic that suggested he was the team's worst defender so far, and while I'm sure that's not literally true, it does make me wonder how the Mavs are currently feeling about their purchase.
Hadn't heard those rumors so that's interesting, But he did sign a medium length deal with us and had already been with the team once. He might not be as gung-ho as THJ, but that might just come down to his personality.
I was pretty lukewarm to JRich when people suggested the trade last year and when the trade happened. I like what I've seen from his defense and he has a decent handle to get that little pull-up jumper from the FT line or he's nifty enough to get quality looks driving to the rim. He's expiring though and I have no idea what to pay him or what he'll expect.
I'd probably take a do-over on that trade right now or at least try to extract a better pick from the 76ers. /spilt milk