Indiana Pacers: Complete grades for the 2019 NBA offseason
By Fox Doucette
Signed Jeremy Lamb
Jeremy Lamb is one of those sneaky-good guys the national media has never heard of because he played for the Charlotte Hornets. The Hornets, when anyone paid attention to them, were Kemba Walker and Those Other Guys from the national media’s point of view.
As such, Lamb went out and compiled a 1.2 VORP while putting up his sixth straight season above the Starter’s Mendoza Line (.100) for Win Shares per 48 minutes.
Is Lamb as good as Victor Oladipo? Of course not! He’ll be a stopgap starter and injury replacement in that role.
Is Lamb just about the best use of $10.5 million any team could spend on its bench? Absolutely.
Plus, Lamb is one of the few guys in this crop of incoming Indiana Pacers who doesn’t miss 15 games with injury if you look at him the wrong way.
Lamb ultimately projects as the guy the Pacers hoped Tyreke Evans would be last year, a bench piece capable of holding down the fort when Oladipo is on the bench.