true, as does Hart. Let's see how this turns out. Winslow is not a bad rebounder either. And you can hope Walker enters the rotation someway/somehow. It's just JG who is awful in that.
Grant , to me, is the one guy who has to prove himself. I'm worried that Grant is going to get star treatment and be allowed to play at a less-than-100% effort that is expected of a role player. Chauncey needs be able to sit his ass down if that's what's needed.
Career TRB/100 averages: GP2: 9.3 Hart: 10.0 JW: 9.9 JG: 7.4 I guess if a 5th person in that group is around the same level as GP/Hart/JW, then that group could be league average at rebounding. Put Dame in there though...not a chance.
i was listening to a podcast with Andrew Wiggins (and Iggy/ET) and they were talking about his rebounding in the playoffs. Wiggins was shocked at how poor he was before and how he said he's never gonna average only 4 a game. Wiggins is shockingly worse for his career than Grant. Let's hope Jerami has a similar epiphany with us.
2020 Ant vs. 2023 Ant are very different players. Also, I suspect we will see a lot more Watford at backup C on small-ball - so it will likely be either Watford or Eubanks vs. Hassan - and if the Blazers are going to play trapping small ball defense - either one of these is an upgrade over Hassan, different if you play drop coverage etc, but does not look like this is the plan for the new coaching staff. I would say that the 2019-2020 roster was probably more talented offensively but really unbalanced, it had good back-court, good traditional centers and questionable forwards (Melo was good offensively, not so much defensively). This years roster is much more talented defensively and a little more balanced. It still has a good back-count but with improved back-court defense, a small downgrade on the traditional center backups but better modern NBA, switchable small ball centers and upgraded forward rotation. I would say that given what the new coaching staff wants to play, this roster is more talented, even if individually, it might not be.
Yeah with those 4 players, you don't really need a PG, but you could add Watford who could help bring the ball up the court and is a decent rebounder. Especially if he continues to develop his 3 pt shot. It looked good yesterday.
I think the potential parallels between the two are significant. Grant's impact on this team is going to be completely dependent upon his mentality.
Since I can't look up TRB/100 for Jabari Walker: Career TRB% GP2: 10.6 Hart: 11.2 Winslow: 10.9 Grant: 8.2 Walker: 21 I think Bari is the dude who is gonna need to get some burn with that unit. If I'm not looking at career, these guys recently had better RB% Winslow 14.7 with the Clips Hart 12.8 with the Pelicans GP2 had 14.6 with the Warriors in 2020-2021. Grant has been horrible though. 6.9% last season with Detroit.
There probably wasn't a verbal promise he'd start. $110m was the promise he'd start. You don't sign a guy for $27m/year to come off the bench the following season. Might as well write your own pink slip at that point.
Honest question... what in the fuck is wrong with you? So sorry that you can't handle the fact that someone disagrees with you. Pretty sad act STOMP
I'm all good over here. Not upset at you at all; I don't even feel the need to curse at you. Sorry I upset you though, that was not my intention. Let's get back to discussing if you really think Ant won't be starting in January to stay on topic. I'm all good with different viewpoints. Many posters have made great points that have opened my eyes on issues.
Do you normally insult people a few times and then act surprised when they're insulted? I gave my 2 cents on the thread topic, whatever dude STOMP
I think that roster at full strength, with a healthy Collins, Nurk, Hood, and Ariza could have beaten LA. Although that was the year Kobe died and the refs seemed determined to hand them the trophy.
I don't keep track of those metrics. I still don't even see where personally insulted you. I try to treat everyone the same and over many years, only a very select few seem to get upset by it; which might explain why I was surprised. I apologized, genuinely, in hopes we could move this thread back to basketball (and Ant starting). To be fair, I'm unlikely to change my posting style, so if you feel its best to block me, I would understand.
