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The bench still isn't good enough

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  • Re: The bench still isn't good enough

    Originally posted by vnzla81 View Post
    Copeland is not the worse contract DG is, add the 14mil plus the 3mil of Copeland and you have about 17mil not used for anything if we want to win a championship a big part of that money has to be used.

    And expecting 80% DG at this point is really expecting a miracle I mean not even Kobe is 80% right now and I doubt he ever gets there.
    Kobe's quite a bit older and had a more significant injury IMO. 80% DG is best-case but it is a realistic outcome this year. The real problem is if you get much less than 80% out of DG, you might as well play OJ or Solo.

    My expectation is that it will go one of two ways. He will come back and make it to 80% OR he will come back and have more problems with his knee. I expect him to come back and have problems but I'm hoping for the former. I'd give him maybe a 30% chance of coming back and being a factor in the playoffs. JMHO.

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    • Re: The bench still isn't good enough

      Originally posted by BlueNGold View Post
      Our bench is good enough to get it done (i.e. help rather than hinder the starters to win a championship).
      At the end of the day, this is where I'm at as well.

      If we'd had Scola and CJ instead of Tyler and DJ, I firmly believe we'd have beaten Miami last year. Add in Granger (I remain hopeful) to take the minutes that Sam Young and Gerald Green got, and I think it's a no-brainer.

      We can all imagine ways the bench could be better, but that's not the question. The bench is good enough.
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      • Re: The bench still isn't good enough

        Originally posted by vnzla81 View Post
        Copeland is not the worse contract DG is, add the 14mil plus the 3mil of Copeland and you have about 17mil not used for anything if we want to win a championship a big part of that money has to be used.

        And expecting 80% DG at this point is really expecting a miracle I mean not even Kobe is 80% right now and I doubt he ever gets there.
        The Granger and Kobe injuries are completely different. Of course Kobe isn't 80% right now, he's played like 3 games.

        I don't think it's really expecting a miracle to see a 75-80% Granger off the bench at best.

        He's only going to be adding to the team, we don't need 2009 Danny to win games. We just need a guy who can come off the bench and hit shots and help maintain our leads or help us get back in games. To think about it, we don't even need that. Anything he gives us is just icing on the cake and makes us even better/deeper.
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        • Re: The bench still isn't good enough

          Originally posted by BlueNGold View Post
          Kobe's quite a bit older and had a more significant injury IMO. 80% DG is best-case but it is a realistic outcome this year. The real problem is if you get much less than 80% out of DG, you might as well play OJ or Solo.

          My expectation is that it will go one of two ways. He will come back and make it to 80% OR he will come back and have more problems with his knee. I expect him to come back and have problems but I'm hoping for the former. I'd give him maybe a 30% chance of coming back and being a factor in the playoffs. JMHO.
          A 65-70% Granger is probably better than Solo right now. Maybe not defensively but probably offensively. Which isn't a bash on Solo, guy is a rook

          But yeah, hopefully Danny doesn't have any setbacks once he starts playing
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          • Re: The bench still isn't good enough

            Originally posted by Shade View Post
            Obviously, Scola and Watson are significant upgrades over their predecessors, but those two can't do it alone. Ian can't stay on the floor for more than 3 minutes, OJ and Cope have forgotten how to shoot, and Solo is generally just invisible.

            We really need a healthy Danny and possibly another bench upgrade if we want to go all the way.

            stumbled upon this on a heat message board. prob has no merit but interesting nonetheless.

            http://www.rantsports.com/nba/2013/1...nt-miami-heat/

            say goodbye to lance if the Pacers make this move. Do not see Rondo and Lance being able to play together at all.

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            • Re: The bench still isn't good enough

              Originally posted by PacersPride View Post
              stumbled upon this on a heat message board. prob has no merit but interesting nonetheless.

              http://www.rantsports.com/nba/2013/1...nt-miami-heat/

              say goodbye to lance if the Pacers make this move. Do not see Rondo and Lance being able to play together at all.
              make what move? it's not even a rumor, it's some random person talking on the internet.

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              • Re: The bench still isn't good enough

                Originally posted by PacersPride View Post
                stumbled upon this on a heat message board. prob has no merit but interesting nonetheless.

                http://www.rantsports.com/nba/2013/1...nt-miami-heat/

                say goodbye to lance if the Pacers make this move. Do not see Rondo and Lance being able to play together at all.
                If the Pacers are in win now mode and are willing to delay worrying about next years payroll until this summer comes, it makes some sense.

                But it would seem that the fact that Rondo does not have an expiring contract would make this a near impossibility of happening. Heck, he makes $13M next season. That puts us well into tax territory next season considering Paul George's new contract amount.

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                • Re: The bench still isn't good enough

                  Originally posted by BlueNGold View Post
                  Because Danny can hardly guard SF, let alone SG which is normally a smaller and quicker guy. Danny's better at guarding bigger wings that normally play SF.

                  As for Copeland guarding the wing, I think that's a mistake too. He's simply not quick enough on defense to guard a wing. That's why he isn't playing and Solomon Hill is playing.
                  Copeland is a Granger clone in many ways. Better defending wings in the post, 3pt threat. Danny drives much better than Cope and overall plays better defense, or in simpler terms he is just a better player. But there is a bit of Granger is to Cope as Roy is to Ian.

                  If Cope could attack with his dribble or defend out on the perimeter he'd be able to steal those "Granger replacement" minutes from OJ/Solo/Butler, but that's just not his game.


                  Still I'd like Frank to find him a role that's more clear. Surely there are some nights and matchups when he could crush people, and it's not like Scola never has problems on PF defense. Even on offense we've seen a lot of PnPop from deep lately, it's not like the team has been able to work through Scola in the low block a ton.



                  If anything I think some of the current bench issues (which are drastically lower than last year) have more to do with learning to play together than not being good enough.




                  And of course Granger could be the team's Sheed. A mid-season return (which seems very reasonable) at solid levels would really make bench concerns seem silly.

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                  • Re: The bench still isn't good enough

                    Originally posted by BlueNGold View Post
                    Copeland was indeed supposed to be a good shooter. But he has a 36% FG% in garbage time. The biggest issue is that he's a tweener who cannot guard anyone. I think we paid too much.
                    He is not supposed to be a good shooter. He is a good shooter. He is shooting 37.5% from 3 and not all his minutes were garbage time (second game against Chicago, New York, Boston and Philadelphia).

                    I agree that he has not learned our defensive scheme yet and thus struggles defensively but offensively he has proven to be far better than the garbage that some guys thought he was.
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                    • Re: The bench still isn't good enough

                      Originally posted by vnzla81 View Post
                      The guy can't even get playing time over a rookie a second year player and an old guy I'm sorry but Cope sucks.
                      A pretty big part of that is that he simply does not play the same position as those guys! Copeland is a PF and he isn't going to see a lot of time over Scola since Scola is awesome. He isn't a SF and thus he isn't going to see compete with OJ, Solo and Rasual for minutes.
                      Originally posted by IrishPacer
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                      • Re: The bench still isn't good enough

                        Originally posted by BlueNGold View Post
                        Yes, he's only played garbage minutes but garbage minutes are not why he was acquired.
                        He was acquired to be the back-up PF but then the opportunity to get Scola appeared. That meant that he was demoted to 3rd string PF who normally only gets garbage minutes. Vogel even tried to get him minutes by playing him out of position at SF but that wasn't good defensively.

                        Originally posted by BlueNGold View Post
                        Also, Copeland is relevant because his contract impacts us re-signing key players and if he indeed begins shooting the 3 with some accuracy he will be a weapon...as well as a tradeable asset.
                        If his contract plays any role in our ability to sign Lance then he will be traded. It's as simple as that. His contract is easily tradeable and Bird will re-sign Lance.

                        Originally posted by BlueNGold View Post
                        Also, as long as we are getting spanked by the likes of Portland and OKC, I think all the players are important and ripe for discussion.
                        It was Hill and Lance that failed us in those two games, though. It wasn't the bench.
                        Originally posted by IrishPacer
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                        • Re: The bench still isn't good enough

                          By the way, I find it extremely funny that some of the people who are complaining about Copeland this season are the same ones that complained about Miles last year. Remind me, how is Miles doing this season? Exactly..
                          Last edited by Nuntius; 12-16-2013, 05:16 AM. Reason: I wanted to write "Copeland" but I wrote "Scola". Sorry for the mix-up
                          Originally posted by IrishPacer
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                          • Re: The bench still isn't good enough

                            Originally posted by Nuntius View Post
                            By the way, I find it extremely funny that some of the people who are complaining about Scola this season are the same ones that complained about Miles last year. Remind me, how is Miles doing this season? Exactly..
                            Wait....whose complaining about Scola?
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                            • Re: The bench still isn't good enough

                              Originally posted by CableKC View Post
                              Wait....whose complaining about Scola?
                              Damn, sometimes I'm stupid. I wanted to write Copeland but I wrote Scola instead. Sorry for the mix-up
                              Originally posted by IrishPacer
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                              • Re: The bench still isn't good enough

                                So "Copeland is a Granger clone"? damn that has to be the worse DG insult ever, it's just a bad as "Gerald Green can replace DG just fine".

                                As a "hater" I should agree but I don't think that low of him.
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