My apologies, I missed that.
It doesn't change the fact that they are false takes. He was never the "key to this team", and If you are quoting someone who said he "wan't even that good" and "expendable"....I've yet to find that post.
I just said I wasn't quoting someone. Using a single quotation mark (') means it's not a direct quote. I was trying to encapsulate a general feeling in the previous post, where the poster said AG was only good with feet set, needed somebody else to set him up, and was bad on defense.
As for the false takes, I'm only poking back because you offered nothing to refute my points. I'm not making anything up, I'm basing all of this on statistics (that were validated by much of the eye test). Go look up AG's advanced stats compared to our other main 6. He has the largest plus-minus. So, based on that metric, when he is on the floor our team is the best at scoring more points than the other team. That's just a fact. Whether or not it's specifically his talents or the side-effects of having a 40%+ three point threat, that could be up for debate. And when I said "several metrics" in an earlier post, it's because he also has the highest win shares per 40 minutes, another metric meant to measure how much a player contributes to a team's wins.
We can debate whether this is a big blow or something we'll be fine handling as a team, but we can't and shouldn't downplay AG's impact on this season. That does a disservice to ourselves and to him. AG may have been the type of player that benefitted from having somebody else (Ayo, TF) set his plate every night, but the same can be said for AG's impact on those guys; we need to have knockdown outside shooters to have an effective offense where our ball handlers can get in the lane, and AG was exceptional at knocking down shots and opening up the floor for Ayo.