Tyus Jones’ Fit in Orlando

Tyus Jones’ Fit in Orlando

PE. I was just It was like a a little boy on Christmas. Tus Mfffing Jones, baby, who Just Jazz reposted Sham’s tweet about the free agent guard. Tyus Jones has agreed to a one-year, $7 million deal with the Orlando Magic, and Just Jazz reacted in the same way that I did, and I’m going to read this phonetically. Yeah. Finally. And that’s exactly how I feel. Pee, I’ve been talking about this for what, two seasons? Let’s get Taius Jones, one of the guys in the league with the best assist to turnover ratios. I I mean, I’m looking at stats here on Taius Jones. He’s a 10-year guy in the league, veteran guy who knows how to win. You never hear about him in the papers. He’s kind of seems like a nose down serious business type of guy. He a has averaged 38% from beyond the ark in his career. 41% last year on five attempts. So now we’ve got Bane coming in with like I forget how many attempts he has. Up over five though. We got Taius Jones. These guys are now the most attempts for three on our team. Um he had 10 points, two boards, five assists, and a steal last year. Uh just again, this guy is a perfect backup point guard for us. He is a perfect guy to come off the bench because his assist to turn uh his assist to turnover ratio is tremendous. Uh his turnover percentage over the past like five seasons has been in the top 10% of guards. He was even in the top 5% a year ago with Washington. Last year kind of a wash. That Phoenix situation was yucky. But other than that, top five percentile, top nine percentile, top four percentile, top nine percentile in terms of assist to turnover percentage. Um, and his assist usage, meaning how many guys he assists while he has the rock, top 5%, top 9%, top 7% in the league. So, this guy is like, in my opinion, and the reason I’ve been wanting him for so long, pound-for-pound, he’s giving you everything you could want in a point guard. Ball security, assists, shooting from beyond the ark. Love to see it. Defense probably not his strength. Sitting at uh I think he’s like six six footish, 62 according to Let’s see, what does it say on uh basketball reference here? 61 according to basketball reference. But hey, that’s what it is this year, right? Weltman said, “We’re going after certified scoring.” And here we go. We got Taius Jones, a guy who can set it up. I’m excited to see him playing alongside Paulo and Fron too at times. This is going to be a really good guy to have in the rotation. Pich, I’m excited. And you’re lounging. You look so comfy. Yeah. No, I Well, you know what? I love this camera angle. makes me look a little thinner. But, uh, that’s a side point. Uh, I know you’ve been wanting Tyus Jones for a long time. For a while, I was kind of not wanting it. I understand his value. I get it. You’re talking about a team that started Cory Joseph last year. So, obviously, I like this. Uh, I hope that doesn’t come as a shock to anybody because, uh, I want players on our team that are good. I want them ones that are capable of of scoring the basketball and not being a turnover machine. So, I like it, but I gotta say I’m surprised that no one else wants to pay this guy to play for them. I’m surprised we’re able to get him on a one-year deal for that cheap. Um, in an NBA that overpays role players all the time, I can’t believe that that’s all this guy warrants. Maybe he wanted to come here. Maybe he was offered more and decided the Magic would be a better fit for me because now he can be on a team where he can play some meaningful basketball. I don’t believe a lot of the country is super familiar with him since his years at Duke because he’s played for the Wizards and he played on the Suns when they stunk and like we’re just not that familiar with the average fan not that familiar with his game. But this is a good spot for him. And I know you said you thought you see him as a backup. I’m sorry. I see this man as a starting point guard. I think he can push Jaylen Suggs out of that starting lineup and maybe Jaylen Suggs is in at the clutch time if we need defense because he’s not a true point guard and you know it. And I don’t know if they planned on having Bane be the point guard. I know he’s capable. I know he’s a playmaker,
but I mean just pure you saw how often Cory Joseph played last year. Das Jones is
better. Yeah.
You know,
so what makes you think this guy’s convers not in the conversation of playing point guard? Now, I know Jaylen was out for a lot of it, but you know, if that experiment doesn’t work, which I know you’re you’re sort of on the fence about, this guy could push him for that or, you know, be the first off the bench real early or this could really affect Suggs minutes, but in a positive way for us because it means Suggs either improves a ton and keeps him on the bench or Suggs is part of the bench unit, which I’m also okay with because now our now our bench has a defensive stud.
Come on. and has somebody that I like.
Yeah, he’s not making 35 million coming off the bench, but you’re absolutely right. He’s going to be end of, you know, the end of game five includes Jaylen Suggs and Desmond Bane. Those are your guard positions. Uh interesting interesting idea though. Interesting idea, you know, with Taius to start. I think Desmond Bane is the point guard. Yeah, you’re right. I’m done. I’m out on the Jaylen Suggs experiment as point guard. He’s not. So, I think they’re gonna put more of the ball handling play playmaking in Desmond Bane’s hands. It is. I mean, it’s a little shocking because of his size, his lack of wingspan. That’s very unweltmanlike. Yeah.
Um, but he is a Duke player, so that’s a check because we have to keep putting players from Duke and Michigan on our team because those are the two colleges I dislike the most. So, you got to love it. Get the North Carolina guy out of here. Let’s bring in some more Michigan and Duke guys. I really still can’t believe we didn’t get Danny Wolf. I can’t believe it. I can’t believe he’s not a member of the Orlando Magic. He was right there.
He was right there. We’re going to talk more about the draft. Don’t you worry. But as we were getting set up for this show, literally this dropped and I forced Peach to lead the show with this. He wanted to talk about some some other but no, I said Taius Jones needs to start. I forget. What was it again? Some other some other that I wanted to talk about was the NBA finals in the NBA championship. Like like the thing that all of this goes towards by the way, just wanted to point that out.
No, with two teams that I don’t care about that game seven was tough to watch Tyrese Hallebert and go down. We’re going to talk about that more later. Tyus Jones is a is a great ad. I’m going to be interested now. I mean, the rotation is really spicy, pee, and there are there are guys front to back in this who are NBA players. We’ve had a few years here where there are guys on the fringes that we’re trying to figure out, are you even an NBA player? And maybe Tristan Dilva and Anthony Black. Well, I don’t know. I think Anthony Black has already proven he’s an NBA player. Tristan Dilva to me has, but not to the rest of the league. Um, there have been guys we’ve been trying out, you know. So, now we have Taius Jones here. Is he the sixman? Does he come off? And then Jaylen goes on, he’s playing with Anthony Black most likely. That’s great because Anthony Black is huge and can probably cover up some of the defensive liability that we’re going to have with Tyus Jones. Anthony Black can take the best uh mark on the other team. So, man, I I I’m excited now that we were mixing in some shooting and ball handling and playmaking into that secondary group as well. Yeah, we’re we’re basically doing a lot of what I’ve been asking for, which is we’re now putting some other players around. I love what you said about trying players out to see if they’re NBA players because that’s exactly what we’ve been doing for way too long. Standing pat with these young guys and trying to see who they were and what they were and it was like, well, we know what they are now. Like, so let’s get some guys in here that are around it. I had compared the Pistons roster last year and said, look at all these guys they brought in. role players, good players, guys that have been in the NBA, shooters, guys that know their role. And now we’re starting to do that. And that’s fantastic. We got a guy up at the top that can be on the on starting blocks. Now we’ve got a guy that we can mix in with the bench unit. I like what we’re building. I kind of hope we’re not done, but I know we’re running out of money and kind of just like, you know what, like we’re doing a lot of guard stuff now and a lot of ideas of of three-point shooting and stuff like that. And they seem to just man I think they really love our big man group because there’s nothing going on in that department. They didn’t do anything in the draft. They don’t seem to be talking to anybody tall. It’s like come on board. Let’s can we can we I mean what’s that?
Yeah.

Pich’ and Kyle discuss the free agent signing of Tyus Jones by the Orlando Magic.

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