On January 20, Beijing time, salary expert Bobby Max broke an important news, he said that the Nets are considering laying off two veterans Griffin and Millsap, in order to free up the quota to turn David Duke and Edwards!
It can be clearly seen that Nash has recently attached great importance to several rookies, giving them a lot of playing time, plus Sharp, these three are good and have their own characteristics! Edwards is a good three-point shooter, David Duke has a lot of energy on the defensive end, and Sharp is a second-time offensive maniac. Sharp and Duke are averaging 6.1 points and 4.3 boards per game this season, while Edwards has 8.3 points and is shooting 42.9 percent from three-point range!
If the Nets do that, that person feels there are two considerations! One is to reduce the average age, the Nets as a whole is older and less energetic, and more young people are needed to provide energy, although the talent of these three people is not too outstanding in the draft, but after all, they are young and cheap, and Nash is also handy. The second is that they are very characteristic in attack and defense, and the two veterans griffin and Millsap are stronger!
Griffin and Millsap have faded out of rotation this season, Millsap is 37 years old, has only played 24 games so far in the season, has been DNP for 3 consecutive games, and of course he has missed many games because of his health agreements and personal matters! The personal competitive state is really poor, the attack and defense are not online, averaging only 3.4 points and 3.7 boards per game, shooting 37.6% from the field and shooting 22.2% from three-point range!
Griffin is slightly better, averaging 5.9 points and 4.4 boards per game, but the decline is also very serious compared to last season! Many games were directly abandoned, mainly because his basket finishing efficiency and empty shooting on the offensive end were too poor to help the team, the defensive end was very hard, and the ability to create offensive fouls was still very strong, but his and Millsap's status was far inferior to that of Ard and Clarkston, and now they are also ranked after Sharp!
The current trading value of these two veterans is very low, although they were once All-Stars, but now they are indeed not strong, of course, does not mean that there is no team to want! If it is really cut, there should be a team to pick up the leak to try, such as the Lakers? In fact, they have no shortage of big men of this type, but the Lakers focus on playing five small or big four small, maybe it would be better to replace Jordan Jr. with Griffin? At least Griffin defended enough to form a rotation after the return of the thick eyebrows!