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[QUOTE="Melancer46, post: 5760241, member: 1674"]
We've tried athleticism with no skill and skill with no athleticism. Neither works. You have to either (1) have a minimum level of the other so that you can get by or (2) have other players that make up for your weaknesses.

Building a team around Buddy's lack of athleticism by pairing him with a bunch of other guys who also had zero athleticism was a terrible idea that was pretty much never going to work.

Likewise, building a team around an athletic guard that could get into the paint at will like Mintz while giving him nobody to kick out to/building a team where defenses could just have all 5 players sit in the paint and wait for Mintz to drive was a terrible idea that was pretty much never going to work.

If MMM is as skilled as Buddy was, we are far better equipped to be a good team built around that skillset now than we were back then. I'm skeptical that MMM is at that level right now; Buddy is still, after all, bouncing around the NBA/G-League as we speak.
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