awesome irony We already have two athletic seven footers better and younger than ML. We’re good there; all full up. ML can go if he doesn’t make a huge leap by January.
it's time for a change of scenery. Maybe he does turn his career around, but it should be elsewhere. He'll never be as good as Collins.
Good defender, decent ball handler (when you compare him to guys like Aminu and Harkless) decent shooter and I'm also of the opinion he's been underutilized in Cleveland. Pretty much the caliber of player we would get for a TPE. Not great, but an upgrade.
I was going to counter each point, but as I ran the data for shitty players with DRtgs above 106 and ORtgs below 101 and PER below 10, he was the best among them, so fire away.
He was worse than the total team values on both NYK and CLE during his entire stint. He's bad; please understand this. He's a shitty player who is garbage. But somehow he's min/maxed his stats to have a really great VORP, so among shitty players who suck, he's the best.
So I have hit the last little scraping at the bottom of the barrel but here it goes... How does he compare to other backup C's in the league? I don't think he's terrible in that regard, but we all wnat every player to be a stud... okay yeah that's sounding flat and uninspired, kinda like Meyers' game last night. That's it that's the only silver lining I have left on this one.
On the bright side, we could be paying a 31 year old Timofey Mozgov $15 million this year to average 7 points and 5 rebounds.
This is kind of a “he’s not even the best drummer in the Beatles” scenario; if you compare him to other backup C’s on our team he’s third best behind Ed and Zach.
If Meyers ever wants to become not a crappy big man, he needs to stop being afraid of the paint. His defense is average at best. Certainly not good enough to warrant a spot in a rotation based on his defense. Big men score most of their points inside, on put backs, rolling to the hoop, and post ups. The outside shot is a supplemental thing. The only big men that made a living outside were tremendous one on one players on the perimeter, like Dirk Nowitski. A big man is only going to get so many assisted jump shots per game. That's why I"ve never been a fan of soft, jump shooting big men like Meyers and Channing Frye (or LaMarcus for that matter)
Problem with Myers he no instincts on defense at all. Occasional he does decent on real slow center. But when someone driving to the hoop he doesn't react to the situation that why he has to reach and usually pick the foul up. That a real liability to the team when he on the floor. This is his 6th year to improve on that part of his game and he hasn't done it yet. He has 4 more games to prove he should be ahead of Swanigan and Collins so far he is down 2-0.
