UPDATE: BI Likely to be Traded[Pel's Media expect a big push to move in Ingram in Early August]

donato said

Great defenders can do that to most players. People are focusing too much on the playoff series where BI was asked to carry the (Zion-less) load (what was CJ's excuse for not being defended in an elite way? He was arguably far worse than Ingram). If a team chooses to shut down BI in a future playoff series (assuming he's on our team), then that'll just open up things for Zion, Murray, Trey etc. Too many weapons and you can't stop everyone.

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Plus we don't know if BI was completely healed from his injury...the whole team pretty much sheet the bed in that series.

On the one hand, I like that BI has that quiet workman attitude much like Marques Colston, but at some point you need your premier guy on the court to rally the troops and get more out of the team. For me to want to pay a max contract, the player either needs to be elite OR at the very least a borderline All Star who makes the people around him better.