So NOW do you understand what I'm talking about??? We are a better team this year.

I see what you did there.

 

From all four paws or just two? One?

 

Thank you for the opportunity.

 

QFT! Which begs the question: since it's obvious that we need a low post threat that can command a double team, who is that person? Who is that player that we need in the post? Another question is do we feel that any of our current roster can develop into that person? Thoughts?

 

We don't really have one although the closest may be Vonleh. Obviously he is very raw, needs court time and doesn't have his NBA legs under him yet but he has the bulk, strength and ability to use either hand around the basket along with the threat of stepping out on a big.

 

I can't state enough how garbage Vonleh is. For some reason people think just because he's 20 it assures he's going to be a stud. He does nothing, not even a glimmer of hope on what people see in him. I would love to trade him for a 2nd rounder if he's even that valuable

 

Strangely enough, I have the exact same opinion about your posts.

 

This is a kid who has played a GRAND TOTAL of 381 minutes in his career....that isn't even 8 full games. He has skills and though it may be a while before they translate, to call somoene garbage with that small of a sample size that early when he showed unique skills in college as a Freshman against much older players seems quite short sighted.

 

The player we'll get in the draft will be worse than Kwame Brown.
If we're lucky then he's gonna be a good as Slava Medvedenko.

 

Why does this post remind me of a thread started during the regular season last year about CJ?
I thought the same of that thread that I think of this post.


But fyi. Vonleh has shown flashes of what he can do. Just it's a play here, and a play there.
Have to look for little things.

 

What flashes has he shown? He can't shoot in real games, just like Babbit couldn't. He doesn't rebound, plus he has no confidence whatsoever, everytime he has a wide open shot he either passes it up or when he finally does shoot he never makes it. People love to say well he's so young but look at Randall he's the same age and had the same college experience and is much better than Vonleh, plus did I mention HE MISSED HIS WHOLE ROOKIE YEAR. Yet he's done way better than Vonleh. He's garbage trust me he won't be shit..

It just makes total sense why CHA would trade him for a one year rental in Batum. That tells you enough right there..

 

Going by what the Charlotte GM does to substantiate something might not be the best approach.

 

Most "project" big men never pan out. That's the cold reality of the NBA.

 

Teams doubled the shit out of Dame when we HAD LMA. This idea that LMA created space for Dame is a total myth. The doubling of Dame is a coaching issue, not a personnel issue. The ONLY thing he provided was an occasional place to throw the ball into the post, but it happened so rarely that we're not really all that worse off. And since he stopped passing out of the post last season (unlike the previous season) he never created open shots for anyone when he got the ball in the post.

 

You actually believed what you just posted? You actually believe that LA didn't take a load OFF of Dame? NO player in the post for us now demands a double team. NOBODY will be left open ever anymore. LA got doubled 90% of the time he had the ball down low, which in turn created mismatches and opportunities for others. Now we have to work twice as hard to get a quality shot. Don't let you hatred for Aldridge blind your common sense of the game of basketball and how it works!

 

Simply not true. The VAST majority of his shots came off pick/pops, and in EVERY SINGLE INSTANCE the defense doubled Dame and let LMA have the wide open 18' jumper. He was rarely guarded by single-coverage in those cases, and NEVER doubled. In the cases where he did get the ball in the post - which, again, was rare - he would draw a double 50% of the time, at best. So maybe 4 times per game he'd draw a double (on average - there were teams that would always send a double, and teams that would never send a double)? And last season he completely stopped passing out of the post, so he wasn't creating any open looks for others like he did the previous season.

 

Incorrect; Randle played in a game his rookie year.