Caleb Swanigan's Ceiling

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  1. GrandJury

    GrandJury Well-Known Member

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    He’s not a good finisher right now tho. He misses a lot of bunnies at the rim
     
    GrandJury, Oct 25, 2017
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    A shorter Artis Gilmore?
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    SportsAndWhine Dumbass For Hire

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    Young Zach Randolph is his ceiling, with all that comes with that: iffy defense, good hands, below the rim play, tenacious garbage man attitude.
     
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    dviss1 Emcee Referee

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    You most certainly can improve foot speed, foot work and coordination. 2 words. Muscle memory:

     
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    I don't know but I love him.
     
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    Ask Charcoal Filtered - I made this comp just last night at the game.
     
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  7. Nikolokolus

    Nikolokolus There's always next year

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    Genetics, not acquirable.
     
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  8. RipCityDSCPL

    RipCityDSCPL Could be worse, at least it's not Lonzo.

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    Hmmmm... @dviss1 says you can improve foot speed and you say its genetics.

    Who am I supposed to believe? :smiley-hmm:
     
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    I think you can improve foot speed.

    http://www.stack.com/a/foot-speed-drills

    4 Foot Speed Drills to Increase Speed and Agility
     
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    Nikolokolus There's always next year

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    Maybe modest improvements, but the number of quick-twitch muscles a person possesses are hard-wired. https://www.outsideonline.com/1783586/it-possible-change-my-muscle-type

    So let's say he somehow maximized the recruitment of his fast-twitch muscle fibers through training and improved his explosiveness by 10%, that's still not going to put him on Draymond's level.
     
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  11. THE HCP

    THE HCP NorthEastPortland'sFinest

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    If he can be anything like Brian Grant, I'll take it.
     
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    Denny Crane It's not even loaded! Staff Member Administrator

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    That assumes he's close to hitting his quick-twitch muscle maximum.

    I'd take a 10% improvement.
     
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    dviss1 Emcee Referee

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    Me too bruh. ME TOO!

    Member how excited we were on Draft Day? Your Brian Grant jersey was exactly what we needed.
     
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    dviss1 Emcee Referee

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    Me of course. LOL. Silly question. :D
     
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    He remind me a lot like Charles Oakley type a player. Both can shoot outside and the both out there hustle there ass off.
     
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    Biggie has plenty of room to improve his foot speed. Genetics certainly have an effect on it, but I doubt he's anywhere near his limit. He lacks explosion and needs to continue to improve his body. Hitting squats and dead lifts hard would do wonders for him (improving those lifts show huge boosts in things like vertical and sprint speed). The guy's a twenty year old rookie, he has tons of room to improve physically.

    Not to mention it's not Green's foot speed or explosiveness that make him such a good defender (he had a 33 inch vertical coming out of college, which is not particularly good), it's his anticipation. The guy knows what's going to happen before it happens. It's unreal. Biggie has shown that he might end up being a better defender than everyone thought because his awareness is decent, but Draymond is on a whole different level.
     
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    Agreed but I have no doubt that is an area he will most certainly adapt to the competition.
     
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    So, my stance has been and still is that...
    Biggie is like Briant Grant, Collins is like Rasheed.

    This version of Rasheed won't be playing SF for us to make room for Grant. This version will be starting at PF, and Grant will be first big coming off the bench.... as long as we have Nurkic.
     
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    Oh man Great times! @Orion Bailey
     
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    I KNOW y'all saw that block Biggie had to end the 1st quarter last night.

    His forearm was at the rim.
     
    dviss1, Oct 25, 2017
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