So….Kris Murray is not a rotation player, right?

[B-Roy]

He is the poster child for the kind of player that has all the trust of the coaching staff because he executes all the coverages and knowing the right place to be most of the times. However, his stats are abysmal, particularly for how much he plays. He’s like the anti-Ayton, where he does the little things that don’t show up on the box score, but does literally nothing that shows up on the box score. At some point, you gotta produce….something. He probably should not play with a fully healthy roster.

 

[PCmor7]

I don't think he even does the little things. I think he's playing simply because he's what they have. Like I said somewhere else, I don't know what goes on at practice that they have him so far ahead of Rupert, because, based on summer league, Rupert looked considerably better. The only thing I can think is that Murray's a little bigger.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

Like everyone else, Murray's game stands or falls on whether he can hit his threes. Right now he's not hitting enough. But he's certainly not a huge problem - you can think of him as like thickener in your soup. You're not going to taste it but it's not going to hurt the soup. Thing is, we traded away Jabari and Trendon, so he's one of the very few we have who you can stick on power forwards. The reason he plays ahead of Rupert is that Rupert is very definitely too small for that.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

Kris is actually a reliable and versatile defender, as seen here: