This forum is funny some times. People are still obsessing over a player who has done nothing and is no longer on the team, in a thread that is more about a new guy that has been killing it for the team, especially the last 2 weeks(50% from 3). Between White, Smart and Rob I don’t think we need another star, just more 3 and D wings and another sniper
Bingo. White is just solid, at both ends of the floor. Him thriving in the 6th man role has helped solidify the team’s rotation, which has aided Pritchard and Theis into their roles. Grant had been a contributor before the trade, but he also has a stabilized role now, with he and DW checking in at the six minute mark of the first and third quarters.
In most of the games in the first half of the year, the starters played at least one good stint of basketbal, only to have the team lose leads and get into dogfights, where they became a flawed crunch time team when reverting to bad offensive practices, with one of the Jays trying to win by himself.
With a competent bench, led by White, the team preserves and/or builds on leads, especially the end of the first/start of the second quarter squad of Tatum with DW, PP, Grant, and Theis. Four floor spreaders allow White to drive and score, or drive and diss whenever Tatum isn’t point forwarding. Now that White is hitting the far corner three off hockey assist passing from Tatum, he becomes even more valuable. Once that unit bangs three or four three balls, coupled with a few White conversions off drives, its a twenty point lead, and that game is locked down