Once we acquired Thomas and i realized how not only good of a pure scorer he is, but his ability to close out games, i was all in on him. I still am. I simply do not see another 30/6 guy with his shooting splits and 4th quarter scoring, coming through the door. That includes Fultz. I just don't want to give up on a player with that much offensive talent, in an era dominated by offensive guards.
Look i get that he is a defensive liability, i really do. My thing is though, we have all of the assets in the world to put a team around him to cover for it as much as we can. Don't tell me you can't win a title with him as your starting PG, i don't believe that. Curry isn't any good on defense, but they cover up. Thomas may be worse, but we can compensate.
I would be around him with size and length. I think Butler is probably the best guy to put beside him in the backcourt (maybe Klay but he's not available), he's got the length and he's an All-star. Paul George or Gordon Hayward are excellent choices at the SF position, with George being the better option. I think i we have the ability to add Butler and either George or Hayward without giving up IT or Horford. That gives us one hell of a scoring/defending starting lineup, with that [dang] hole at the 4 spot still bothering us.
I'll rest on my dream lineup but it's hard to even think about Fultz when we won 53 games and i know we have the assets to add two amazing compliments to Isaiah and take another big leap forward. If we could add Butler and George together, i don't care how good Fultz becomes because we have a [dang] 30/6 guy at our PG spot.
I just think we're at a point were waiting to develop a Fultz is redundant when we can add impact players to Thomas/Horford. We are all set at the 1 and 5 spots, fill in the holes at 2-4 with 2 All-Stars using Fultz, Brown, and BK 18 to do so. I don't even feel silly writing that, we have the assets and cap space to do this. That is just worlds more attractive to me than a youth movement.
I rambled on a little bit, but the true gist of my thread here is that i think Thomas is an exceptional talent. A truly special basketball player. Can you imagine the damage he could do with two other scorers added to this roster, imagine him with 2 more shot creating dribble pentrators? He would wreak even more havoc.
Anyone else feel this strongly about Thomas being the franchise?