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I'll be honest tho, idk how him and Brunson works as a backcourt.
Wonder how Mitchell would fit next to Bridges instead
i think instead he should go to minnesota. think about it he has an elite rim defender in rudy gobert, great for the pnr and all
I’ve always wanted to see Mitchell and ben Simmons on the same team, they seem like the perfect compliments to each other .
Now that is exciting.. he has enough defenders on the perimeter to help him out in BK.
Fringe playoff team, 1st rd exit
He could bring Ben back to life
I am also wondering this. We have room for an upgrade at guard but it rides on how ready Cam Thomas is to carry a major offensive role.
If Donovan was even 25% interested in Brooklyn then we gotta go all in, giving away Cam is the barest minimum
To put it in perspective as a cleveland fan, I don’t care about Cam Thomas at all. You put him in a trade and I skip right past that name in a Donovan Mitchell trade. He’s the filler (no offense, just trying to put this in a genuine perspective)
No offense taken it’s makes sense to me, nothing we have is equal to Donovan (that we’d be willing to trade) so I think it’s best to just throw y’all any and everything if it means we can add Spida to our core
His offense alone alleviates our biggest problem
He is not lmao
Bro it's Donovan Mitchell.
Surely the only way we pick someone like him up is through FA no?
The amount of important players we would have to give up to make the Cavs interested would make Don not interested.
It's not like we have our own picks to throw at the problem to make up for a lopsided trade.
Hopefully we'll never have to find out
If Donovan came to NY I'd honestly want RJ to move to the 6th man and have Hart start at the 3 since he's a better defender and could help out Brunson and Donovan better, Grimes is too small to start at the 3 full time imo
Starting 3 people under 6’4 always works, we never had issues with it or anything
Simple - 2 balls at the same time
Rumor is the sixers are trying to get him as well and I feel the same way about a Mitchell/Maxey backcourt. Defense would be so bad
As long as he has a better playoffs it’ll be fine. Mitchell was right on the cusp of being a first team all nba guard last year. He’s a guy you can count on to make it happen.
Agree. Mitchell is for sure better than Brunson, but not by miles, and they kind of occupy the same space.
For the Knicks maybe you just grab the asset and figure it out later, but agree the fit is suspect.
Nobody wants to hear this but Donovan will always be a flawed player as an undersized 2.
Well ya, being a 6'1 shooting guard is not ideal.
I'd rather be a 6'1" shooting guard with a 6'9" wingspan like Mitchell instead of a 6'4" shooting guard with a 6'3" wingspan like Desmond Bane.
Bane is 6'5 with a 6'4 wingspan
wow that changes everything. in shoes or barefoot?
I keep saying to people that extending a forehead higher does little to benefit anyone
Except Mitchell doesn't use his wingspan for defense, at all
He's not really a small player is the point. He's built like a tank and has elite functional length, yet there are always complaints about his size apparently handicapping your backcourt whereas no one ever talks about Ja and Bane being a small backcourt.
Smaller guys can use length to play bigger. Donovan doesn't do this. He is short and plays small. He's also more of a 2, meaning he needs to play next to a playmaker to excel, despite needing the ball to be effective. Ja is small, roughly the same size as Dono, but he is the primary playmaker and ball handler for his team. Bane functions well without the ball and uses his strength extremely well. Replacing Bane, who is a solid four-ish inches taller than Dono and guards like he is, with Mitchell would make the Memphis backcourt significantly worse defensively. That's how you know the size matters. Donovan is small and makes no effort to use the physical gifts he has to make up for it.
Eh he has the wingspan and athleticism to guard most 2 guards. Not saying he can be an all nba defender or anything but effort goes a long way. Guys like PJ Tucker are undersized and was a more than competent defender. Hell OKC ranked 13th in defensive rating last year despite not having a center all year
If you’re saying that his size is what ultimately keeps him somewhere in the 11-20 range rather than being a top-10 guy in the league… are there people who legitimately argue that? You’re absolutely right imo
This subreddit is obsessed with shitting on 2s if they're not 6'6 or something.
Maybe because that’s around the average size of a shooting guard?
Maybe because that's not what wins playoff games??
If Mitchell was a genuine 6'3" and lived up to the defensive potential he had when drafted, then it wouldn't be a problem. But he's actually 6'1" and an average-to-poor defender, despite a major plus wingspan and dunk contest athleticism.
I'm just happy I don't need to pretend anymore lol