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I don’t know why you are bringing up Brooks passing when that has never been a part of his skill set.
Yes Smart is better than Brooks at passing but Smart is worse than Jones which is the main difference.
Jones has been the best backup PG for years and has been t a major reason why even when Ja misses games they still have a winning record. I am really worried about the flow of their offensive over those 25 games. Smart is a solid PG but from watching him with the Celtics a decent amount he is looking for his shot more than the pass. He isn’t a true game manger/floor general. That is going be a problem IMO. I wouldn’t be shocked if they are around .500 or just below it when Ja gets back.
Here’s the thing Smart isn’t the only play maker on this team. Luke Kennard Desmond Bane Derrick Rose Marcus Smart Santi Aldama and Stephen Adams are all very capable and versatile play makers. I think not relying on just one person to initiate the offense will make the grizzlies a much better team.
The reason I brought up Brooks is because he an offensive negative he literally would kill the Grizzlies ball movement and chuck upshot’s whenever he felt like it. The Grizz will be a much better offensive team just with him not being in the rotation.
Most of those names are considerable reaches as reliable playmakers. I think naming Kennard, Aldama, and Adams as playmakers is making the opposite point you want. And Rose will be 35 and played 12 mpg last season.
Kennard came into the league as a playmaker and if you don’t think Aldama and Adams are playmakers just watch and see.
No, Aldama and Kennard arent definitely playmakers. Adams' playmaking is just about screens and holding the ball on the top, it's a kind of playmaking but he's not a ball handler or similar
That run 2 seasons ago was an outlier. Expecting almost any team to be better than .500 without their best player is pretty unreasonable.
They were above .500 again this year without Ja and have been pretty much his whole career
People assume Ja is the only good player on our team, for some reason.