Will MyLe be able to handle primary backup at Center this season?

Defending PG's is usually defending someone with the ball, but defending SG you have to move faster because they move without the ball, and you have to have more toughness, because they are always fighting through picks.

 

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On the offensive end, the height advantage will be a headache for other SGs.

 

They would be if Batum ever took advantage of his height. Aside from a high release point, Batum doesnt do what he should with his size on offense. He got better last season before he got worn down and damaged, hopefully this season he will bring it back.

I'm not saying Batum cant play SG, I'm just saying why put him in that position when he is better at SF. He played SG a bunch a couple seasons ago and I remember seeing the PER splits, he was significantly better at SF.

 

Mags, sometimes you're a bit like a guitar player who only knows one chord. Diversify.

 

Okay, I'm gonna admit that was really good! AND it hits home too!

Rep'd

 

Well, you and I have very different views of Asik. I just don't think he is very good. I wouldn't trade either Wes or Leonard for Asik, let alone both. I think Lopez is so much better it's not even close. I admit, Asik had some good games, and especially some good rebounding games if you looked at stats game to game, but when you actually watch him you realize how damned lumbering he is. I would put him halfway between Lopez and Zaza

 

I looked at his PER and it was lower at SG.

 

I'm just here to help

 

I would so fucking do that

 

thank you.

 

If we trade Wesley it should be to bring in a superior starter. I would put him in a package for Monroe but I doubt the Pistons are interested.

 

The problem with Meyers is he is still very much a project, and if he does end up developing and eventually improves he will be off his rookie contract. Then we will need to eat up a bunch of cap room to keep him on the team because centers are always overpaid.

In the NBA of 5 or 10 years ago I think optimal team building strategies were very different; it was better to draft for upside potential. It was critical to get guys that could maybe become all-stars one day. If you got enough of them to be a contender you’d have bird rights on all of them. Most all teams except the thriftiest would go over the $1 for $1 luxury tax to retain a title contending team for a few years. It was fine to have 4 of these projects on your roster contributing very little today with the hope that a couple of them develop into near all-stars.

Now it is a different roster game. The big advantage of the draft is having players whose production exceeds their cap cost. Players are on cheaper rookie contracts for only their first 4 years, after that point they become restricted free agents and their cap cost more or less equals their production. If you find a player in the draft that in 5 years may be an all-star, well then at that time they will be paid an all-star salary. There are similar players like Josh Smith and Andre Iquodala available every off-season for all-star salaries to any team with the cap space.

Drafting projects has a big downside even if they do reach their potential. That is one reason I was very happy we took the NBA ready CJ McCollum and not Steven Adams.

 

Nicely explained Draco. Repped.

The more punitive the salary cap/lux tax system, the less room there is for dead wood. Even if you "win" your gamble on a kid like Lynyrd, all you may have done is develop him for somebody else.

 

Awesome take Draco! Yeah I suspect the way teams pick and do business will be much different. Also, the question mark players slid big time in this draft; even though their potential was much higher.

 

Dwight was well farther along than Leonard + he was the #1 pick. Also, he was 18 years old.

Edit: 19 years old

 

MyLe? Really? Dude, you can't be cyrus.