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Rich K.'s avatar

Actually they do have nine guards if you include Grimes - Grimes, Maxey, McCain, VJ, Edwards, Butler, Sallis, Gordon and RCIV. They have JHS on a two-way, making 10 if you count him. They can field two teams with their guards.

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coords1306's avatar

Nothing here about Wroten, or the Stauskas as PG project, or Isaiah Canaan, or Ish? Or how Simmons was going to be our PG. Or Fultz. Or a run though from trading Holiday through today of all of them?

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Andrew Unterberger's avatar

Those things certainly all also happened!

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DmitryS's avatar

Quentin not only proved he play well at SF, he can be a mismatch for slower opposing wings/SF.

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Spike Eskin's avatar

He did not prove he could play small forward.

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Rich K.'s avatar

When the team went 4-24 when you played you didn’t “prove” anything. I’m not saying Grimes is bad, just that he needs to play in games that matter and help win some of them. Advanced metrics don’t really mean much when a team is tanking, all its good players are out and the other team doesn’t take anything you do seriously. You might as well be showing the advanced metrics of a 10 year old whose dad let him win.

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DmitryS's avatar

Better stats +- at SF. Lukaless wins agains OKC, DEN, LAL

https://cleaningtheglass.com/stats/team/7/lineups#tab-four_factors

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Spike Eskin's avatar

I'm sorry this doesn't prove anything, especially when the point guard in the lineups is 6'8".

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DmitryS's avatar

Team was more efficient with QG at SF, most of these lineups are LUKA-LESS with still tough opponents from Oct to Jan. One of 2 best +40 min lineups had this powerfull guard combo: Dinwiddy, JHard+QG. Need more info for explicit validity but neither there is proof against it.

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