Everything Precious Achiuwa

[golden]

I'm not like golden, i'm not going to waste my time searching for old posts but I remember so many random Precious trade idea here last year. I'm going to mention Myles Turner, a lot of people here wanted to trade Precious+++ for him last year. Now, Turner's not a scrub but i've never been a fan. I don't think he's anything special + he's injury prone. A lot of people laughed when I said i wouldn't trade Precious for Turner. Would anyone here still trade Precious for Turner?

So basically people mentioned Jakob and Turner... neither of whom are scrubs. Who are you calling out then?

And you would still trade Precious for Jakob, today? I wouldn't.

[saints91]

Everyone was down on Precious and his lack of finishing ability at the beginning of the season. I kept putting him in the starting lineups in my game threads, because I thought he was the best 5 we had, and he needed the playing time. Yes, he wasn't finishing (Fred's lob passes were horrible btw), but he was playing well outside of that. It's funny how fairweather guys can be on RR.

I think we still have to be patient with him, he's still going to have growing pains going forward. This is only his second year getting serious, meaningful playing time. He has all the skills though.

[The Great One]

What scrubs were you talking about then?

I remember people saying to trade him for Poeltl, don't remember anyone else.

I'm not like golden, i'm not going to waste my time searching for old posts but I remember so many random Precious trade idea here last year. I'm going to mention Myles Turner, a lot of people here wanted to trade Precious+++ for him last year. Now, Turner's not a scrub but i've never been a fan. I don't think he's anything special + he's injury prone. A lot of people laughed when I said i wouldn't trade Precious for Turner. Would anyone here still trade Precious for Turner?

[Primer]

I don't really know what you're trying to prove here? Poeltl's a scrub? I still would trade him for Poeltl. Poeltl's one of the best C's in the league last year.

What scrubs were you talking about then?

I remember people saying to trade him for Poeltl, don't remember anyone else.

[The Great One]

Yep.

I don't really know what you're trying to prove here? Poeltl's a scrub? I still would trade him for Poeltl. Poeltl's one of the best C's in the league last year.

[golden]

Damn. And people wanted to trade him for scrubs last year.

Yep.

I completely changed my opinion on Poeltl. I think it was DanH who suggested Precious + 1st + Dragic + Flynn I think? I can't remember. The slight changes that I would make is I would protect the 1st(1-10).

Let's go! I'm all in on Poeltl.

[A.I]

People are gonna look back years from now and say Masai fleeced Miami in the Lowry trade.

I think that's already the case because they had the cap space and didn't even need to do the S&T. They clearly just didn't know what they had in Precious.

No one knew what Precious could do. The Heat barely played him, then he came to the Raptors where he got more freedom but didn't know what to do with it and started figuring it out as the season went on.

[Primer]

Damn. And people wanted to trade him for scrubs last year.

People are gonna look back years from now and say Masai fleeced Miami in the Lowry trade.

I think that's already the case because they had the cap space and didn't even need to do the S&T. They clearly just didn't know what they had in Precious.

[The Great One]

“Wait till this year because every time I see him this summer on the court, it’s total focus, total intensity,” Nurse said.“I mean, something happened to him where he now understands what playing in the NBA is about, and he is on a mission.

Damn. And people wanted to trade him for scrubs last year.

[WJF]

“Wait till this year because every time I see him this summer on the court, it’s total focus, total intensity,” Nurse said.“I mean, something happened to him where he now understands what playing in the NBA is about, and he is on a mission.

Has precious outgrown being an undersized 5? The logjam for versatile combo forwards is getting to the point where something might need to break.

[Dr Hannibal Lecter]

High praise from Nurse on Precious in some radio interview he did out in Europe:

I liked Precious even when he couldn't get a layup. There was something solid about him defensively that I just enjoyed watching. He has this ability to just bottle up a lot of guys. OG like, but he has more coordination on the offensive side (at least athletically). And we saw how much he improved since January. If Nurse sees something more.. that's scary.

Confirmed..
Gary and OG..Traded for KD..lol
This tells me, if they don't get traded..
Gary Trent Jr will be relegated 2 bench, I'm so ok with that, sixth man.
Gary is a ball hogg, best way have the ball is starters rest and u go 2 work.

[G__Deane]

High praise from Nurse on Precious in some radio interview he did out in Europe:

I liked Precious even when he couldn't get a layup. There was something solid about him defensively that I just enjoyed watching. He has this ability to just bottle up a lot of guys. OG like, but he has more coordination on the offensive side (at least athletically). And we saw how much he improved since January. If Nurse sees something more.. that's scary.

Precious starting confirmed.

[planetmars]

High praise from Nurse on Precious in some radio interview he did out in Europe:

I liked Precious even when he couldn't get a layup. There was something solid about him defensively that I just enjoyed watching. He has this ability to just bottle up a lot of guys. OG like, but he has more coordination on the offensive side (at least athletically). And we saw how much he improved since January. If Nurse sees something more.. that's scary.

[Primer]

Precious the #3 C in on ball defense.

https://mobile.twitter.com/The_BBall...EEnSYoC8g&s=19

[JawsGT]

If Fred can stay healthy, whether from increased use of the midrange limiting body blows, or lower minutes, his 3 pt shooting % goes up enough to make a difference. His hip and knee issues destroyed his long-range shooting. If he can resist driving to the bucket for failed layup attempts it wouldn't hurt either since single coverage from rim protectors lead to a lot of blocks with him.

I think the minutes load and subsequent injuries ruined Fred's season. I thought he was doing really well early on in the season as a ball handler and driver, even showed some improvement as a playmaker I thought. But his legs couldn't keep up with the demand and he never really recovered from the late injury, and he didn't show so well down the stretch. If he gets back to early season form and can maintain that into the playoffs next season, that will also be a huge boost to this team.