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i made a comment on this before, but I feel the idea deserves it's own thread.
Advantages to lou starting at shooting guard and trading demar:
- if lou is resigned to a reasonable contract, we could save cap space and not worry about demar's free agency next year.
- Lou can shoot the 3 much more efficiently, fixes spacing issues in the starting lineup. Casey now no longer has an excuse to continue starting ross at the 3 (THANK GOD).
- Lou doesn't really post up, meaning more post touches for JV which were being taken away by demar's post ups.
- In this role, IF used properly (that's up to casey,
), lou can be more efficient than demar and be less of a black hole on offense, as evidenced by the times casey used him as backup pg and he actually showed flashes of playmaking.
- We can now trade demar for a star, or pull a rudy gay and trade him for an entire bench without worrying about taking a big step back at the 2 spot.
Disadvantages to lou starting at shooting guard and trading demar:
- size, and thus defense. Although lou has shown he can get steals by playing the passing lanes, and he does put effort on defense, his size will make it hard to guard opposing 2s. However, with all these defensive players we are being linked to (aminu), and having delon wright as a defensive pg, masai and casey can work together to create ways to mask his shortcoming on that end.
- Lowry loses his buddy, well too bad so sad it's a business and lowry tweeted that after vazquez was traded.
Advantages to lou starting at shooting guard and trading demar:
- if lou is resigned to a reasonable contract, we could save cap space and not worry about demar's free agency next year.
- Lou can shoot the 3 much more efficiently, fixes spacing issues in the starting lineup. Casey now no longer has an excuse to continue starting ross at the 3 (THANK GOD).
- Lou doesn't really post up, meaning more post touches for JV which were being taken away by demar's post ups.
- In this role, IF used properly (that's up to casey,
), lou can be more efficient than demar and be less of a black hole on offense, as evidenced by the times casey used him as backup pg and he actually showed flashes of playmaking.- We can now trade demar for a star, or pull a rudy gay and trade him for an entire bench without worrying about taking a big step back at the 2 spot.
Disadvantages to lou starting at shooting guard and trading demar:
- size, and thus defense. Although lou has shown he can get steals by playing the passing lanes, and he does put effort on defense, his size will make it hard to guard opposing 2s. However, with all these defensive players we are being linked to (aminu), and having delon wright as a defensive pg, masai and casey can work together to create ways to mask his shortcoming on that end.
- Lowry loses his buddy
, well too bad so sad it's a business and lowry tweeted that after vazquez was traded.
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