Our biggest need is "insurance" at wing or PG position?

I’m confident that we have enough to win games with any injuries. I’m also confident that we only beat the Warriors when we’re fully healthy (our main guys).

 

At point guard we added both Brandon Knight and Michael Carter Williams. I doubt Morey is counting on both of them panning out but we only need one of them to find new life in our system. I'm not sure I want to bet on either of them just yet but Morey has proven me wrong enough times that I'm willing to wait and see. I'm not worried regardless because we did just fine last year with our entire guard rotation being Harden, Paul and Gordon.

At power forward we brought in Melo. I'm not really sure how you expect to have much more depth than Melo + Tucker at the position.

At the wing I think we'll be fine. Ennis may be our only true small forward but Harden, Gordon, Green and Tucker can all get some minutes there. However, this is the position I'd most like to see them pick somebody up at. Hell, it's a long shot but I'm hoping that the Suns fail miserably and Ariza is bought out mid-season and comes back. That'd be ideal.

 

Then again, neither do they.

In fact, we're deeper than either of those teams.

 

Yeah I don’t know about this. If we lose Harden or Paul then those teams take us out; Capela out makes us super vulnerable. But that’s generally the case with all teams that would lose one of their best two players. Only Warriors would be favoured against all teams but us without either Durant or Steph

 

Our roster is full . Our biggest need is for some of the players we've acquired this offseason to pan out .

Until we get into actually seeing what roles our new players take , i don't think we can predict our biggest "need."

I think our roster is pretty well rounded . If we make a trade it won't be to fill a hole , it will be to upgrade our overall talent .

 

We have the best PG rotation in the NBA sir

 

The Rockets have a full roster. They are not going to add insurance players until the trade deadline and the buyout market. But clearly Morey wanted more PG depth than wing depth because they signed MCW and traded for Knight.

 

Cp3/Knight
Harden/Gordon/MCW
Ennis/Green
PJ/Melo
Capela/Nene/Chriss

That’s a pretty good set of 12 players. Multiple players who can play at multiple positions. I don’t think depth is a real concern going into the regular season.

 

Insurance? The moment Ariza and Moute walked, our biggest hole needed to be filled by either 2 mediocre or 1 excellent wing defender who can irritate Durant and hit a corner 3.

We got 1 guy who projects to be mediocre, who might surprise us. But we got better at PF (Melo), Guard (Knight) and maybe even backup C (one of Hartenstein or Qi, who knows maybe Chriss) since last season. If we get an another James Ennis caliber player, we will be in excellent shape. That has always been our need, and will remain our crutch until we acquire one.

At the moment, when Ennis sits, you will have PJ Tucker guarding Durant. Given Durant was rising up and shooting over 6'9 Ariza regularly, that's not a good way to go. Also we need Tucker at PF and if any of those guys (Ennis/Tucker) are unavailable for the WCF, we are in deep trouble because next in line is Gerald Green, James Harden or Eric Gordon. In fact, we might be better off having Capela guard Durant than any of those 3.

The good news is, with Lebron in the conference, Tucker is an excellent choice to guard him in the playoffs.

Against the rest of the NBA and in the regular season, we're fine.

 

FIFY

 

But do we have the best Ref rotation in our pocket doe?

 

no

 

I hate these pics so much...

 

What big moves did the Jazz make? Honest question, I haven't followed them.

I know the Thunder picked up Noel and Schroeder, great depth moves.

 

We're an old team. It's better to eliminate lower seeds asap than strategize and gamble.

That year Barkley sent us to the wcf, the Sonics were able to squeeze in another two elimination games while the jazz were sitting at home throwing slumber parties. Really cost us momentum.

Every po game is a risk.

P.s I do agree with the notion that mda doesn't know minutes restriction in the POs if it could kill him.