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I'm beginning to think Dylan Harper could be the first option, and the offense would be damn near unstoppable. But which guard would you bench? Mitch is from the Pop school of minutes management, so it wouldn't make a lot of sense to burn all three stars' quality minutes simultaneously. 

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8 minutes ago, chainsaw said:

I'm beginning to think Dylan Harper could be the first option, and the offense would be damn near unstoppable. But which guard would you bench? Mitch is from the Pop school of minutes management, so it wouldn't make a lot of sense to burn all three stars' quality minutes simultaneously. 

For the time being, I think he should come off the bench and run the second unit like they used to do with Manu, Take Vic and Fox out, let him run pick and roll with Kornet against the other teams backups. There's plenty of minutes to go around and it's a long ass season. You saw them try to close out the Knicks game with Fox, Harper, Castle, Vassell and Wemby. I think that's where they would ultimately like to go depending on matchups. Every one of those guys (with Vassell being the obvious weakest link) can hunt the poorest defender and get a shot off / get to the rim / get fouled at really high rate. 

Harper is virtually unguardable after 16 NBA games. He gets to the rim at will and finishes as well as anybody with either hand. He never turns it over. He plays really good defense. He reads the pick and roll and finds the open guy with amazing consistency. And for past couple of games he's been on fire from three. I don't know what the ceiling is for him, but this is the floor. Barring injury, this is the worst version we're ever going to see of this dude and I'm almost ready to say that he's already better than Tony Parker ever was.

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2 hours ago, Mitch Cumsteen said:

For the time being, I think he should come off the bench and run the second unit like they used to do with Manu, Take Vic and Fox out, let him run pick and roll with Kornet against the other teams backups. There's plenty of minutes to go around and it's a long ass season. You saw them try to close out the Knicks game with Fox, Harper, Castle, Vassell and Wemby. I think that's where they would ultimately like to go depending on matchups. Every one of those guys (with Vassell being the obvious weakest link) can hunt the poorest defender and get a shot off / get to the rim / get fouled at really high rate. 

Harper is virtually unguardable after 16 NBA games. He gets to the rim at will and finishes as well as anybody with either hand. He never turns it over. He plays really good defense. He reads the pick and roll and finds the open guy with amazing consistency. And for past couple of games he's been on fire from three. I don't know what the ceiling is for him, but this is the floor. Barring injury, this is the worst version we're ever going to see of this dude and I'm almost ready to say that he's already better than Tony Parker ever was.

I remember Tony as being quicker but, one, his jumper wasn't ever as good as Harper's seems like it already is and, two, Tony lacked the physical tools to be as good of a finisher as Harper already is, so much so that I always felt like his teardrop became such a prominent part of his game as a way to compensate for that. It was beautiful, novel, and frustrated the hell out of opponents. Tony's speed and quickness generated a lot of his interior scoring, and if he didn't quite have confidence that he'd beaten his man he would go to the teardrop. I don't remember him going for contact or just taking it right to a defender the way Harper does.

The most impressive part to me is that it looks like Harper is taking it right to a defender or even splitting multiple defenders, but his body moves so fluidly that it looks as if he was completely untouched. Reminds me of a 5'3 running back slipping through gaps and getting out into the open field, but Harper is not a small or wiry guy. He's got superstar written all over him.

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