We NEED to Talk About Jarred Vanderbilt’s Contract…
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We have Devalued Vando – He’s had some Josh Hartish Type Games however, He just doesn’t fit JJ’s System.
Y'all are insane, everybody know Jared Valderbilt is a defender. But we going to discredit him for being a defender. And y'all said scoring alongside Luka and Reeves when LeBron running the 2nd unit main ball handler minus Luka Kennard this season. LeBron still taking a lot of shots and dribble for 18-20secs or random passes and he still not worth 52.6 mil at all
JJ needs to play vando ten lousy minutes a game to rehab his value to neutral value at least!!! JJ overplayed his team in March and there's no reason not to play vando. Ayton does boneheaded stuff All the time and he plays him!!!!!
JJ has completely ruined vando and kinetchs careers and it's pissing me off lately while he gives bronny James minutes
Couple things to note vando is coming off a procedure and rehab on both his feet he couldn’t even walk he had to re learn how to walk imo once you have surgery like that you need a lot of time to feel like yourself again he had majority of the season and now going into the offseason I think next season will be better observation period for vandos production. Secondly I feel jj reddick utilized vando in a way that limits his max production with darvin ham he was guarding most teams number 1 option look it up he was holding star players to their season lows luka on the mavs d Mitch etc a bunch of number 1 options had problems with vando as the main defender nowadays with reddick vando has been relegated to basically an undersized 5 huge difference from guarding guards and wings so i just think the lakers should give vando another shot
I don't blame Vando, the blame goes on Rob for that long contract.
Vando so bad he broke his own finger
Vando, Knecht, Laravia + 25 pick for Nic Claxton … Problem solved.
Would even include a swap if it means getting either Mann OR Ziaire in the deal
Still crazy how Ham used Vando correctly and JJ can't figure it out….
He was an important piece of the Wolves roster but simply lost steam after the Rudy trade.
If they wanted to trade Vando they should have been playing him more. Dalton got more chances than him. There is no justification from Dalton to play while Vando didnt