I like the potential Leonard has, but I'm not sure he'll be more than a decent backup. He could be better, but his defense was so bad. But I think that has more to do with not knowing what to do, than not being able to do it. Of course, I'm not sure if he'll ever have a decent inside game. He could be a sane, not so god damn irritating Chris Andersen. Not nearly as fluid athletically (not like Leonard is Joel Pryzbilla), but similar stats, - blocks though.
Hey, ho.. hold on. Go easy on him. Sly told me that BGD is artistic, and his father said that he loves the Kamloops Blazers and this massage bored.
From another thread, but applies DeAndre Jordan started all 82 last season. And played in the fourth quarter 30 times. Average minutes in the fourth over the 82 games: 1.8.
Do you have to post this in EVERY thread that Leonard is mentioned in? It isn't even a good deal for us.
Leonard doesn't know what he's good at. He's an unfinished player. We need to mold him and play to his strong suits--like being 7'0" 270 and athletic.
Finally someone has said it. It's about time. I'm really sick of hearing the "Leonard should be a stretch 5" bullshit. He's not good at anything yet. He is a very unfinished product. Make him work his ass off (which he is very willing to do) to become an actual Center.
Its not like we are training him to take on a bunch of guys at the YMCA, he has to perform at an elite level against the top 200 players in the world. His skills need to be instinctive second nature. You just can't teach those abilities to someone in their 20's. By that age they've either learned those basics or they haven't. A player sees someone driving with the ball and knows where to go to defend. Or they don't know where to go. They see a ball being shot and know where to position themselves for a rebound or they don't. Yes there can be fine tuning to a player but you can't overhaul their entire engine.
This is true, it's defense where we need his ass in the post playing acceptably. He'll be a great compliment to Aldridge if he has a great jumper and can play at the top of the key on offense (while letting Aldridge having the opposite elbow he's on and the post) and then get in the post on D. Same thing next to T-Rob, who could be an offensive rebound machine if playing next to a jump shooting C. The only problem with using that lineup much is that there's no post scoring at all so you better have some guards out there who can fill it up.
