some of you guys man........
Stop with the excuses for Tristan. It's clear as day they type of player he is. Here's a question. Why are we trying to develop Tristan offensively when we were told when he was drafted that his strength was his defense and his motor? We were told that Tristan was going to be an elite defender. Why are we trying to improve his offense when his defense isn't at a level that we were told it should be?
It's like some of you forgot that Tristan was a defense first guy. When he was drafted we all saw clear as day that he had no offensive talent at all, period.
They tried to justify the pick by saying he was going to be an elite defender and a great "human being" He was a wasted pick at #4. On draft night there was nobody waiting to her Tristans name called. Who had Tristan going #4? Did anybody really sit there and said boy we just drafted Kyrie now we need Tristan Thompson. Gosh the fact that he's on our team and he's a nice guy makes you guys so gullible. He's not that good. And what he does do well we already have a guy who's as good as it gets in the league doing it in Andy.
I mean what the fuck, we drafted Tristan and didn't even trade Andy. Now Andy when he's been healthy has outplayed Tristan hands down no questions asked. It's like the same arguement people make about the Jack signing. Why sign Jarrett Jack for 6m/yr to play backup PG if you're going to bring Dion off the bench.
Why the fuck did we draft Anthony Bennett if we drafted Tristan and we still had Andy?
Are you seriously asking why we're trying to develop TT's offense? Do you not want our players to be effective two-way players our something?
Tristans only 22, he's not even close to peaking. He's already a good 1-on-1 defender, which is a lot more than most NBA players under 25 can say. Give him more time learning MB's system and he will be an elite defender at the 4.
Wasted pick, give me a break. Look at some of the picks around TT, would you rather have Derrick Williams or Bismak Biyombo? Faried made an early impact but his game has leveled off recently.
Klay would have been a nice pick, and the Cavs tried to move up to draft him. Kawhi wouldn't have developed nearly as fast here than in SA, it's debatable if he'd have been a better pick. It's been said before, if you redrafted that class now TT would still be in the top 5. Hardly a wasted pick.
Jack filled our backup point guard need, and he's great insurance if kyrie goes down. Considering we were giving Donald Sloan heavy minutes a couple years ago I'm not going to complain about Jack.
And finally, why are you in such a rush to trade Andy? Guy is our only legit option at center and on a favorable contract. He's too injury prone to have as much value to other teams as he does to the cavs.