Deeefense: He’s certainly not a max player or even close.

Yeah, I think that’s what people are saying. Not writing the guy off, but …

Sometimes you can’t even judge a guy off a bad season if his role was wrong and he couldn’t do what he was good at because of the spacing. 🙂

If you get Lonzo, you aren’t getting him to score 20 points a night. You aren’t worried about one dumb defensive play today. You aren’t even worried about what he’s showing this year as a playmaker. You are trying to decide whether has has the skills to run an offense and knock down outside shots at a high enough rate to mitigate the spacing issues we have and not allow players to back off him and go under picks. If he can do those things, he’s an upgrade over Payton and is still young enough to have upside in that and other areas of his game.

IMO, it’s really difficult to watch the Pelicans now and figure out what he can do because he’s not really playing the traditional PG position like he did in LA and with the Pelicans before Stan Van Dummy took over the coaching job.

I think you more or less have to look at his PG play under Gentry as indicative of what he can do as a PG and his shooting now as indicative of whether he may be making progress there. Still, even after all that you still have to value it well. My guess is that he would be a good upgrade over Payton, quicken our pace, get us more easy baskets in transition, and help the spacing. However, my guess is as good (or as bad) as anyone else’s at how much he’s worth. He’s certainly not a max player or even close.

With 2 of their top 7 players out, they managed to pull this one out. What more can a fan ask for?

Thanks Thibs!

The Infamous Cdiggy: He got that LA passiveness in his game (heh-heh). He can play, but he doesn’t strike me as someone who can really try to impress his will on a game. I think I’ll pass too.

Yeah, that was my eye test comment today, too. Lonzo seems like the opposite of a Thibs guy.

DudesTown: I can’t see Lonzo being worth anything close to 20 million per.

He got that LA passiveness in his game (heh-heh). He can play, but he doesn’t strike me as someone who can really try to impress his will on a game. I think I’ll pass too.

And how fucking clutch was Rose today? I mean he almost had me forgiving him for his previous stint w/us just on his 4th Q and OT play alone.