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    It's not that he's bad, it's that his average shot attempt is 6.6 feet away from the basket and he's a bad defender. He doesn't have a quality mid range game or three point range.

     

    He's basically a more offensively polished Aaron Gordon without the freakish athleticism if he was only allowed to shoot within 10 feet and plays defense like Vucevic

     

    Dude averaged 35.8 percent at Duke from 3 on about 3 attempts per game. Not exactly jaw dropping numbers but having watched a lot of Duke games there was nothing fundamentally wrong with his outside and mid-range game. Sounds like to me he is being poorly utilized. 48% shooting yet he is only getting a bit less then 10 shots per game.

     

    Change of scenery might serve him well, especially on a team that could really use an alpha scorer mentality on it.

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    Never thought I'd say this, but I agree. Fournier is capable of bringing instant offense, and Harris is a disappointment.

     

    I'd rather just trade both and not over pay the kind of money that there salaries command (in harris) or will command (in evan). Harris at least attempts to play defense and rebound but his offense has become disappointing for the last month or two. Where as Fournier helps spread the offense about like we desperately need, but, can become completely invisible on many nights and can have some frankly Hedo moments.

     

    Better to just trade them both for more bench presence or start looking to try and get a good player. More minutes for both Aaron and Mario.

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    The idea of letting go of Dipo and then handing over the kind of money it will take to keep Fournier on this team makes me want to vomit. With Dipo I know what I will get. The guy will run through a brick wall on command and do nothing different. Of course he struggles handling the ball. He's not a damn point guard and everyone knows this. But he is the kind of glue guy a team needs and is the perfect off ball SG when you have a SF like Mario bombing away from downtown.

     

    Sure Evan looked great tonight. Evan also looked like an all-star earlier this year. And between then and now he has been about as inconsistent a player as we have on the roster. And this is the guy that could be commanding a 10-13 million dollar contract in a year, possibly even more? No way in hell. Maybe 6-8 at the most. But he is not worth that, and he is not worth giving up a do everything player like Vic.

     

    I also feel that if were really looking at breaking up this backcourt, which still feels a bit premature personally, then we are looking at the wrong guard. Payton just does not seem ready to run a team, especially not with any of the current players as his wing mates, be it Evan or Vic. It almost feels like we got Payton to late. I think he would have excelled with a very steady precision shooter like JJ or Korver next to him, someone who literally could not be ignored and forced the defense to be a bit more spread out. But this team isn't set up like that and I just don't feel Payton is there yet.

     

    Also, yes the lineup may have finished off the game, but a no PG lineup isn't going to win in this league. It worked against Boston. Cool. Lets see if that crap flies against the Warriors or the Spurs (it won't).

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    I think he meant just Harris and move Oladipo to the starting line-up

     

    Wouldn't that then create the same problem of burn out for Dipo we were seeing before though? Victor was looking good off the bench not having to go against the other teams best perimeter players.

     

    I guess I just feel like if we keep having to shuffle the lineup and nothing is coming out of it, then maybe the quality of players needs to be addressed, not the lineup.

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    I agree and I find it funny that Tobias is now our best 2 way player. I think Vucevic is a demon on offense though, and the sky is the limit for him.

     

    Vuc is definitely the offensive center piece, and tbh, we don't win 12 of out last 15 games if it isn't for his continuous contribution in that aspect. But, I want it to be noted that for all the talk of Tobias being the first person talked about being traded away from this roster, just go look at the dude's stat line this season. Very rarely is he not putting up double digits in points (and most of the time around 15 for the norm), he's always grabbing around 6 rebounds, which is a solid contribution for a Small Forward, and he's normally defending the opponent's SF (which in todays game is often one of their better scorers) and he is not fouling. He fills the stat sheet night in and night out and not counting the first few games of the season, is limiting turnovers.

     

    Payton has come and gone, just like I would expect from a sophomore. Dipo started the season off rough but seems to be getting healthy and his play is improving. Fournier had a great start, came down from that high pretty fast, and now seems to be trending up again. Vuc as mentioned is an offensive force but his d still leaves much to be desired. But Harris has just been that guy who continues to put the work in every night. When the inevitable time comes that someone from this young core has to go, I think that is going to be a big factor.

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    Lets guess the teams.

     

    Portland, Memphis, Boston, New York, Brooklyn, Toronto, Washington, New Orleans, Lakers, Clippers?

     

    The real questions is what does the sink constitute as? How much would giving up Tobias net us, and would it be worth giving him up for it. There is an argument to be made that Harris is currently the teams best overall player and certainly the teams most consistent.

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