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[QUOTE="DoctahLexus, post: 5309244, member: 6798"]
On the one hand I think Lampkin is still moving worse than he was last season due to the lingering injury so he may have more in the tank down the stretch. On the other hand I will eat some crow for trying to hype up his arrival, because even if he was doing more as a scorer/play maker right now, there is no universe in which we should have added him to an already heavily disadvantaged team on the defensive end. Even if Davis Carlos and Taylor lived up to the billing as plus defensive players at this level (only Taylor is coming remotely close), you know about the weakness of JJ and Bell, who were locked in for major mins, and you have enough film on Donnie and Moore to know they wont come in and save the D as freshmen. Lampkin moving as slow as he is now was not a guarantee, but the lack of rim protection was 100% going to happen even if he was injury free. You are basically banking on all the other new faces going off on the defensive end, which was always highly unlikely.

The Carlos/pg eval is still by far Reds worse error IMO, but adding Lampkin to this roster was also an error, even if you put aside the NIL situation.
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