lauri can give you 35...myb 38 at the 3....then what?....lavert imo shold play zero minutes at the 3....none....its not worth the risk as hes extrmely valuable at the 2....in fact every player 1-9 is extremley valuable going into the playoffs......if your max player all star is telling you that youre an ecf team....you finish with teh 5th rated defense in the league with the nunber 2 rim protector out for 26 games....youre 1.5 games out of 1st place halfway through the season and then your ROY candidate and rim protector go out and you get a 6th man of the year candidate coming back? ....yeah ....1-4 taking into consideration the health liabiiltes taht teh 76ers, heat and celtics have....even the bucks are not immune wiht a 300 pound lopez coming off back surgery and backed up by ibaka and his bad knees. ..and grayson and matthews are suspect at the 2....and what if fvv is an injury-prone type player?....they have no one to back him up...theyll have to go with scottie and siakim and hope malachi can give minutes.....
35-38 what? Minutes at the 3? Thats too many for anyone in the modern NBA. Lauri should be splitting time at 3/4 over 26-28 mpg. LeVert probably plays 10-12 at 3 and 12-14 at 2 but those are just guesses. We have a lot of guys who will need playing time at the 2 (Sexton, Rubio, Okoro, Ochai, LeVert) and fewer at the 3 (LeVert, Lauri, Wade/Stevens, Cedi?). I expect LeVert will split time between the two.
If you are weighing in health risks, we should get penalized too as Garland has missed time every season as have Allen and Caris. As is, Boston, Philly, and Miami were better than us last season even when they had players miss a lot of game. Unless Garland and Mobley take massive leaps like
@Bob_The_Cat argued, we aren't magically leapfrogging them, let alone a revitalized Atl, Chicago, or Toronto who all also made improvements this offseason. Nets as constructed are also much better than we are right now. Cavs look like a low playoff seed/playin tier as current rosters stand but a lot can change either way. But the Cavs seeding is a discussion for another thread.
coherent?....he sported a 62 ts the last two years ..one year a 50/40 the other a 47/40....strter minutes...teh fact that you cant see this as coherent makes you...imo...incoherent....the dude is iron...hes goign to be there for the playoffs...how long have you been folloing basketball?....seriously....you compared travis outlaw. to barnes calling harrison a "decent shooter"....a 50/40 62 TS decent? ... first i thoght you were trolling....then realized you could be serious as some here think taht the cas are a ten seed in the east wiht sexton and barring injuries...stop, already.. ..just stop
So he put up good shooting numbers on a bad team and he has been healthy? That is not anywhere near enough to convince me to give up real assets for an expiring 18m contract. Over the same last two seasons, Barnes has been a near neutral player (0.2 net BPM, 15.4-15.7 PER) while struggling on D (118-119 DRTG). And as for the wing issue, he has been playing over 57% of his minutes at the 4 over the last 2 years.
Harrison Barnes is a solid backup 3/4 but not much more than that at this point in his career. He struggles to defend smaller wings and guards on the switch. He can body up a Kawhi or LeBron, but he is not going to be any more of a speed bump than Lamar is vs those types. He isn't going to be adding any additional playmaking. What does Harrison Barnes offer besides compressing the skillsets of Lamar Stevens and Dean Wade into one player but being worse on D than either?
I dont mind adding him in a vacuum. He is a solid player who is somewhere between a top end bench guy on a good team to a starter on a bad team. But, he doesn't solve our biggest issues right now as he is a) not an elite movement shooter, b) not an elite playmaker, and c) not an elite defensive wing. He does address our need for a big forward but thats it.