Great read, and I happen to completely agree with it. Klove can be a great 2nd, or 3rd option but he is not capable of carrying a franchise. Beasley is currently the only guy on our roster who could do that. I would love to see beaseley our #1 option, klove our #3 option. That just leaves us to find a guy that fits as our #2.

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I don't agree. There is no franchise guy on this team. Not Love not Beasley. They are scoring over 20ppg both and we won only 13 games. When KG was surrounded with a bad roster and he was the only guy scoring over 20 we were playing in the playoff. Now 2 guys score more than 20 and we are last in the West. Beasley has a talent and scoring ability but i didn't see much difrence when Beasley was healthy and injured.

Love's production and, statistically speaking from entire-game effort, wins produced >>>>> Beasley and it will probably stay that way.

They both provide different things. Beasley has the potential to be an excellent scorer in the league. In fact, he already is.

We need Beasley to be thoroughly healthy again so that we can further evaluate what we've got with him. The past two months have pretty much been a waste because he keeps getting injured or isn't playing at 100%.

College Wolf wrote:
that was my thought as well. i am not saying he IS our franchise guy, but he is the only one on the roster right now that could be. beasley has been hurt and you cant fully evaluate a guy when he has been playing hurt for this long. he has the skill set to be a star, we just dont know if he can put it all together.

Agreed. Im glad he shut down for awhile. Hopefully he comes back from the ASG feeling much better. Im guessing though that his ankle wont fully heal until sometime this summer.

WallyWorld wrote:
Yep, after 10 tweaks it'll need an extended time off. It'll be next season.

WallyWorld wrote:
Agree that they provide different things. Love brings a lot to the table, to be sure- rebounding, niche scoring (i.e. scoring that doesn't cost your other players touches) and spacing the floor. Beasley brings an attitude which, when he's got his mind right, gives a competitive edge that the other guys just don't have. He also creates shots and has the "bail out" ability to score when other options are taken away.

Indeed. I have been pleasantly surprised with Beasley thus far this season.

Beasley is on the same level like Al Jefferson. Not an All-Star I would say. He is a good player anyway, no doubt.

Flash wrote:
Yeah, except he's younger and his contract is nowhere near as bad. I guess we'll see what happens after he's up as a free agent after next season though.

College Wolf wrote:
i dont agree with this. for one beasley is way more athletic, and because of this he can actually play defense. he can be an all-star and a #1 on a team with a little more consistancy. Big Al is more like Klove. Can put up numbers but the guy he guards puts up just as good of numbers or better. Beasley can be a top 10 player in the league with his ablilities. he needs to work on his mental game and become more consistant and not lose focus as much.

I don't like my comparison with klove and big al really either, but i think they are closer to eachother then beasley and big al.

No_Love_Sessions wrote:
I was more disagreeing that agreeing. I guess I didn't really elaborate enough like you did. I think Beasley can be good, but I don't see him ever being a top 10 player in the league. Plus he really needs to improve his defense. Another difference between him and Al is that I think Beasley CAN (and has the potential) to improve his defense and become good, whereas Al is just a terrible defender and will never get any better.

Beasley is so much better then big al. For one Beasley can handle the ball and penetrate to the bucket. Big al is a back to the basket player who I think will never be an all star. If Williams leaves the jazz.. Oh boy they are screwed. Beasley needs to heal up that ankle. I agree with all of you all these tweaks the past two months are just hard to watch hopefully he can string a few games together tweak free and start rolling maybe feeling a little more confident on it. He has somuch potential to be a great player in the league I'm so glad big al is out of here. If we could get a #1 scorer Beasley 2 love 3 and Rubio to distribute that'd look real good to me.

Good points from both perspectives. Let's wait and see what he's learned during the second half of this season. His career has been a bit atypical. Wait a bit to evaluate him and Love. I'd be real hesitant to put Love and Al in the same category as well.