Hollinger’s FA money model is dead to me after last summer when the formula checked DJJ as a player who should get more than the MLE but less than the max. He’s a fringe player.
Is there a much of a difference between: Small Forward #1 Height 6'7 Wingspan 6'7 Standing Reach 8'7 Small Forward #2 Height 6'3 Wingspan 6'10 Standing Reach 8'6.5
Here are some players who have a standing reach within an inch of Norman Powell's: Cam Johnson Miles Bridges Rodney Hood Doug McDermott Eric Paschall Kevin Porter Jr. Tobias Harris Evan Fournier Gordon Hayward Here are players with an equal or shorter standing reach: DeMar Derozan Jaylen Brown Kelly Oubre Jake Layman Caris Levert Dorian Finney-Smith DeAndre Bembry Stanley Johnson Brandon Clarke Dillon Brooks Harrison Barnes Joe Harris Jimmy Butler
What starting forwards are there that'll give Norm trouble due to his size that aren't star/superstar-caliber players? Honest question. Because I'm not worried about Norm's size against the following starting SFs: Royce O'Neale Mikal Bridges Whoever the Lakers start at SF (They're likely moving LeBron to PF) Dillon Brooks Kelly Oubre Jr / Otto Porter Keldon Johnson Harrison Barnes Kevin Porter Jr. (?) DeMar Derozan Khris Middleton / P.J. Tucker Ben Simmons / Tobias Harris Joe Harris Jimmy Butler Jaylen Brown (They might start him there next year) Evan Fournier DeAndre Hunter T.J. Warren (?) Gordon Hayward I'm not gonna go into Eastern Conference lottery teams.
The problem with Powell at the three is it pushes Roco to the four and that means we’re gonna get beat on the boards most nights. Not good.
The crazy thing about this standing reach argument is that you know better. It's one aspect of size on the court. How tall you are dictates what the player you're defending can see before you get your hands up, that's an aspect of size. That includes spotting their shot and teammates by seeing over your head. Where your center of gravity is dictates how effectively you can defend players backing you down and turning around on you. How tall your shoulders are has a drastic effect on the leverage you can apply to an opponent when fighting for position. There are more things that we know about that makes height and not just reach an advantage. You know all of this stuff and you continue to harp on only one thing because that one thing isn't height and because of wingspan and shoulder width reach isn't defined by height but you know very well that height... not just reach, is a huge advantage when playing this game. So I think you're being silly and just trying to win an argument that I don't think you agree with. Do you think that a player with a reach that is equal with Norm's but is three inches taller has any advantage when playing against Norm?
We were a poor rebounding team last year, and it was worse against Denver. Even if you can consistently get stops, if you can’t get the board what is the point?
All I'm saying is guys who compete hard can defend bigger players. I wouldn't rely on that consistency but I believe Powell isn't as undersized as people claim, he's strong, and he can hold his own defending SFs on a night-in, night-out basis. Now, I'd love to have Dame / Norm / Covington / Siakam / Nurkic because then you'd have the versatility to put Siakam on whoever 2 through 4, so it's not necessarily a defense for keeping C.J... I just think Norm is looked at as more undersized than he actually is.
Maybe I’m old school but I prefer size. You’re at a disadvantage defensively when positions 1-3 all your guys are 6’3” and under. Star/superstar players are who you’re going to have to defend if you want to compete for a title. Powell needs to be our starting 2. I mean I’ll give it time but I don’t think that experiment will work well.
We need to box out better. Hopefully Chauncey will preach that and hold the guys accountable for that.
It'd make things much easier if we had a versatile defending forward instead of C.J. I'm just saying that I don't think Norm is completely mistmatched against SFs like a lot of people seem to think.
Rebounding ties in with defense. More often than not a team that’s shitty at defense is shit at rebounding.
