CJ had some timely buckets

Nope. Gotta bench him for Dyson. Also need to trade BI.

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Pelitards

I don’t think people realize that if CJ actually gets to play his role as the #3 option, he’s immediately one of the top 5 #3 options in the league

Herro
CJ
Bane if you count him?
Beal if he ever gets healthy?
Harden (debatable)

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Jrue for sure

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Jrue’s actually the 4 option on that team. Porzingis would probably be in that list as well though. Replace harden with him and that’s fine

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However, the 3 of those guys are horrible on defense together. So why not have a rotation where you always have 2 of the BIG3 with defensive minded players around them?

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The stats show that Zion and BI as a pairing actually have a really good defensive rating

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We don’t need 3 ball dominant players on the floor at all times which is what BI (loves iso ball), Zion (somehow still only knows how to play bully ball/downhill drive to the paint 5 years into the league), and CJ likes to do.

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They stagger them, they don't have 3 call dominant players on the floor at all times.

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However, the 3 of those guys are horrible on defense together. So why not have a rotation where you always have 2 of the BIG3 with defensive minded players around them?

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Can you show the defensive numbers? Because I know the 3 on the floor together absolutely maul teams since CJ joined the team.

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I’d much rather hold teams down and frustrate them offensively than try to outshoot teams night in and night out

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We did that last season with a top 6 defense, it got us the 9th seed.

CJ does lots of things in a timely manner. The guy is real pro.

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he also takes very untimely contested step backs and pull ups as well. if we want to crown him the best 3rd option, he needs to be more selective on taking low percentage shots like he tends to do in the first half of games.

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I'm very critical when he does this, but he's done it a lot less this year IMO. He only had one really bad shot last night.

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The stats show that Zion and BI as a pairing actually have a really good defensive rating

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While the stats do say that, you know they are not the reason for that, right?
No one would ever say either of them are even average defenders.

The starting lineup actually has a -NetRtg
114.1 ORtg vs 115.4 DRtg

The starting lineup with Dyson instead of CJ was
135.7 ORtg vs 115.1 DRtg

Those are the two most played 5 man lineups by a good bit.

and really the best NetRtg are when it's JV/BI/Zion with any 2 combination of Herb/Dyson/Hawkins/Naji

We are a worst team NetRtg when JV goes off the court. The only other two players that have a similar influence like that are Herb and Naji, and while we don't have a negative NetRtg when Jose is off, the difference between our NetRtg when he's on vs off is the greatest difference on the team, so you can really say Jose has been the biggest difference maker on the team, which is exactly what you want from your spark plug off the bench. His numbers don't look like that if he was a starter.