You can't have Book at 25 ppg. Brooks at 20 ppg. Bridges at 18 ppg. and Green at 20 ppg. Not with the rest of this roster that will score as well. There are just not enough scoring opportunities to go around.
Tell that to Philadelphia.
I think there's lots of opportunitities. Just what percentage rate do they cash those in at?
The only thing I will say about Brooks, was some games our guys were just not aggressive scoring. He would force the action in games when all our guys were just continuously playing hot potato with the ball.
He’s not close to those guys either. They’re either high level efficient scorers or playmakers. Green is a low efficient scorer with no playmaking ability. He’s 11th in VORP from his own draft class. I do think he could be valuable in a 6th man role but we’ll see if Ott has the backbone for it.
Green is still young and without attitude problem the Morant's have. I trust Ott to bring out the best from him next season. From the talent and state of development point of view, he is the next likely prospect after Book to reach the allstar level, far ahead of Maluach and Peat on the current roster. We ought to be a little patient with him.
I agree. Hopefully Brooks can dial back on his scoring. As mentioned, he had to be aggressive at times last year without Booker and Green. I think Booker and Green should be 20+ and then Bridges and Brooks in high teens.
The gassing up of Green and Bridges here is wild.
Bingo.
He did it when Book and others were out. You could see it on Dillon's face and hear it the post-game interviews. He would go into some games as the #1 scoring option in his own mind--maybe Ott's as well.
I think he had a logical mindset in those games. The thing you wonder, is we had better scores and shooters, so why didn't ANY of them step up? For the crap Book gets, he does give us the volume of scoring needed on a team whose scorers and shooters are many times reluctant to shoot. Especially in games when he's out. You expect them to score more, and they would just have their regular games at best, not taking up the scoring slack. You need guys who can ramp it up like Brooks, when needed.
Agreed. I hope it doesn't happen again this year. If Kennard doesn't increase the volume on his 3's, his fantastic percentage is pointless.
I guess it's a question of price. Brooks signed for about the same for Powell, as true established 2nd-tier star on their teams. MB right now is comparable with Wiggins, Hachimura, Collins, Harris, but slightly better. For this year's market, it's fair for an extention offer with avg of 18-19m per year. If MB believes in himself and the roster, he might choose to play out this contract and test the market next off season.
If you can afford them, then all fifteen spots are full. The only way to improve would be via trade. I am for letting Green play this season out, and then he's expiring next season. I listen to so many Suns podcasts, but they were making the point you don't trade the 2030 pick and not extend Bridges. They were saying it's a lock they extend him. I noticed that Josh Bartelstein was very non comittal on the Burns and Gambo show when Dave Burns said, why don't you wait and see how Brides fits before extending him? Wouldn't surprise me they don't do it soon.
