if your point is that wingspan might help a player playing out of position like Powell...ok, I'd agree. if it's that Portland can get away with playing Powell at SF for most games, in the regular season, I'd say probably, but it would be exposed in the playoffs on the other hand, if somehow Portland added a Simmons or Siakam or Grant or even Nance, without trading CJ, I'd think you'd have a hard time arguing that Powell should stay the starting SF and Siakam or RoCo should go to the bench. The Blazers would be better off with a quality SF that wasn't 6'3
I can see it already. Neil trades Dame for parts, and tries to sell "building around CJ" as a roster upgrade that we should all be excited about.
No my point was none of those. I was just debating the post I replied on. In general, height does not matter when a player is long for his position, is strong, and is a good leaper. Donavon is a good example.
I guess someone is wrong. ESPN showed him at PF all year long and the announcers commented on it as well which is why I looked it up during the playoffs. https://www.espn.com/nba/team/depth/_/name/uth/avgassists
Pretty sure Bogdonavic is the starting PF, and guarded the opposing PF more often than not. But the line between SF/PF is blurred for most teams in 2020. They stuck O'Neale on the opposing teams best perimeter player so if you want to call him Utah's defense stopper I guess you can do that.
