Oso planning to go pro
Maybe Lebron doesn't play D anymore but the guy is still one of the best offensive players in the league. As constructed that team may win 40 games. Would they move Davis?
If LeBron and the Lakers didn’t win the championship in the Bubble, would anyone be making asterisk arguments?
The Lakers might have the worst roster in the NBA. Lebron will still get his stats, but he's not quite the dominant force he used to be. Anthony Davis is still solid. But after those two, just an absolute void of talent.Lonnie Walker IV has probably been the third best Laker this season and I don't think he's a rotation player for any title contenders. Yikes!
Shams reporting Bucks are working on a deal to bring Jae Crowder to Milwaukee. Please make it so.
That would be awesome. But who would they have to give up?
I think Grayson Allen would be involved.
Allen is the rumor. He's an adequate bench player, but his defense is really lacking and he just vanished in the playoffs last year after the Chicago series.
If I knew Ingles was healthy and good I’d give up Allen for Crowder. But as it is that makes the shooting worse on the Bucks, and shooting is they key. The Bucks got smoked from behind the ark in the C’s series. Yes, Allen stunk offensively and defensively in that series. But he was being asked to play a much bigger role than he’s needed to when the roster is healthy. He’s very good for what he needs to be, and with the addition of Ingles there’s more options if teams are attacking him defensively. If Middleton stays healthy last year, there’s a very good chance Grayson is a solid contributor for a title team.Also, they want a guy who can “shut down” players like KD come Playoff time like PJ Tucker did. KD had a historically great scoring series against the Bucks. Nobody really shuts those guys down.Regarding the Mickey Mouse title, it’s still a title, but just look at the teams that advanced and how they shot the ball. Jimmy, Jae, Duncan all shot WAY over their heads in the bubble compared to their career numbers. Same with Rondo and AD with the Lakers. It was very different there.
I'd make that trade in a second. With Jae you get a guy who can guard on the perimeter, who hustles and hit an occasional shot. He slides nicely into the PJ Tucker role from two seasons ago. With Connaughton, Middleton, Holiday, Lopez, and even an occasional Portis, they have plenty of guys who can hit threes.
Brew, here is a comment from Eric Nehn who coves the Bucks for The Athletic:Moving Allen, which appears to absolutely necessary in a deal for Crowder from a contract perspective, would take one of the Bucks’ best shooters off the roster and add a player that is instead an average shooter. While some might question Allen’s status as an elite 3-point shooter after attempting only 24 3s in seven games against the Celtics and making just 20.8 percent of those attempts, the criticism itself provides the answer. Allen struggled in that series because the Celtics viewed him as a threat. They chased him around screens and actively ran him off the 3-point line because they knew he could hurt them.While Crowder has certainly had strong shooting performances in playoff series, teams don’t seem to care whether or not he takes 3-pointers. When Giannis Antetokounmpo is one of your primary creators, this can be a major problem. Every inch of space a defense uses to guard an elite shooter is exponentially more important in Milwaukee because those inches widen gaps for Antetokounmpo to puncture and weaken the overall strength of the wall trying to keep him from the rim.I tend to agree with this, but it would certainly depend on the Playoff opponent. Jae could be more valuable against certain teams. It is strange though, that the Suns want no part of him even when he is still under contract..