You know what's so scary about what you wrote here? Per-36 stat comparison between TWill as a King and Evans last year TWill 15.5ppg/7.2rpg/5.4apg/51 TS% Evans 17.3ppg/4.8rpg/4.7apg/51 TS% No wonder Sacramento's shopping Evans. They already found his replacement!
To be fair, last year they tried him at the 3. The dude's 6'5". On the same team they have about 7 other shooting guards.
no thanks, Ill pass dont want a russell westbrook x's 1000 ball hogging the entire game and lose by double digits hmmm... on 2nd thought maybe thatll be our best way to tank and actually get a high draft pick
I really don't think he is a fit for the Rockets. Playing next to a PG who can penetrate with ease a deadly 3 point shooter IMHO is what you look for at the 2. Dragic penetrates drawing the defense down low. He passes out to an open Evans at the 3 point line. What can Evans do? The defense is already collapsed and there are no driving lanes. He is a career 25% from beyond the arc (20% last season). Probably he just pounds the ball until everything resets. So he really does not work IMHO.
Actually, they already have one...or a few and kinda haven't. A weird four man rotation between Salmons-Evans-Thomas-Thornton. Though, near the end of the season Thomas sort of settled in at point guard and essentially kept playing with two shooting guards. The Kings need a player, like Nicolas Batum, Gerald Wallace, or Michael Kidd-Gilchrist at small forward. They also could use another go-to scorer at the same spot (and to complement Cousins and Thornton), maybe Harrison Barnes or Paul Pierce. Problem is they also need a defensive minded big man.
Hes in that class of player similar to Ellis and Gay that just aren't net positive basketball players despite the physical gifts.
I've never liked 2-guards who have to dominate the ball to be effective and can't shoot. Your 2-guard has to be able to shoot better than 20% from 3pt land, and he can't average 3 turnovers per game. Don't get me wrong, he's super-talented; an athletic freak, but if he was on the Rockets, i'd play him at SF.
Lowry, Scola, Martin and our second rounders/or $$$ for him and cousins. Draft a good big man like Zoeller and Rivers as our back up? Dragic/Rivers Lee/Evans (6th man role) Parsons/Buddinger Patterson/ Bear Camby/Zoeller
As interesting as your personal opinion is, where is the part in your thread addressed by the title of same?
This makes sense. And without Dragic, it makes sense to pick up Evans. What I was reading about Wroton is that he's slipping into the 2nd round, and sounds like an Evans clone. So if Morey really needs a slasher/passing 2, we can get one much cheaper. This draft info about Wroton posted on http://www.cbssports.com/nba/draft somewhere.
Where does Cousins go in your line up? I am assuming you meant Cousins instead of Camby. unless you refer to cousins as a bear....
Didn't a hot topic of conversation on this board used to be the need for a "closer?" I remember that was the case year before last, I believe. Seems like Evans would fill that role. I know Sacramento thought they couldn't co-exist, but I'm somewhat intrigued by pairing Evans and Kevin Martin in the backcourt. One volume scorer and one efficiency scorer - maybe they'd complement each other?
