And Steven Adams has been the guy who has been sorta unplayable down the stretch in close games for them, because they simply don’t have scoring threats are having to resort to playing Grant at the 5 with Schroeder on the team, who was surprisingly not terrible today.

Meanwhile Kanter played 30 minutes in a road win in the playoffs and OKC’s offense did not magically turn into the Warriors for some unknown reason.

Report: #Knicks, who had traded the pick that is now 31st in the 2019 #NBADraft to dump Travis Outlaw's contract to Philadelphia in 2014 (#Nets now have the pick), would like to trade back into the early part of the 2nd round pick. They have the 55th pick.— @kc1nyk (@kylecohenNBA) April 22, 2019

They can keep a couple of other role players, but they need a star caliber scorer that can shoot badly.

I hear Melo is available…

For all of his flaws, his touches are a much better option offensively than “have Westbrook come off a screen and shoot a midrange jumper” which, for god knows what reason, seems to be one of Billy Donovan’s favorite play calls.

It’s quite possible the offense/defense trade off comes out positively for them, but man, on nights when PG doesn’t have it their offense is uuuuuugly.

Utah has only 1 guy that can create his own shot and not enough spacing. That’s not enough to carry a team, especially when Mitchell is not a superstar scorer to begin with. If you can slow Mitchell down by keying on him or if he just has a randomly bad game, it’s pretty much an automatic loss for them against a team like the Rockets.

I like several players on that Utah team, but they are going nowhere unless they replace a couple of players with some more offensive firepower and spacing. They should start over and build around Mitchell and Gobert. They can keep a couple of other role players, but they need a star caliber scorer that can shoot badly.

I think Booker is a better offensive player than Mitchell for sure, he’s a better shooter and better passer. Mitchell might be better at defense but he plays on the 2nd best defense in the league and Booker in one of the absolute worst, so the gap might not be as large as it seems. I’d take Booker over him, to be honest, but I wouldn’t be happy with either at the max.

Not as bad as Gallo, though. Ouch.

And hey, that SGA kid seems pretty good. Wish he was available when we were picking…. But I guess even if he were, no one here would have suggested him as a better pick than our 3-on-3 star…

is either of those players the best hope for trier?

just without looking at their numbers (both sides of the ball) and contract – I’d probably pick booker…trier, I don’t know yet who to really compare him to…