Duffman100 wrote:-= original quote snipped =-
You're telling me that if you replaced Bargnani with a random 10 rebound center, lets say he average 5 points. That we'd go to the finals? I think not my friend. We have a good team, not THAT good.
That's not what I said, or what I meant; I said "part of it" for a reason. We have issues with interior defense, rebounding (primarily offensive), lack of a really dangerous second scorer who can score from a wing iso play, we lack post scoring, we have a couple of flaws. We're two or three players away from title contention, I think.
Duffman100 wrote:-= original quote snipped =-
I understand this is a discussion forum, but why not just sit around and complain about how we don't have Tmac and Vince. Cause we can change that too?
It's a discussion; questioning the value of a discussion about a legitimate problem is silly. And we DO complain about how we don't have those guys, though we don't give them names. We're talking about athletic wing iso scorers, aren't we?
Anyway, as I was saying before, it's obvious that replacing Bargs with the kind of center we need wouldn't immediately translate into title contention, not unless that center was something like Duncan or Shaq from 4 years ago. We need a proper center (even if the center isn't a big-time scorer) and another wing player before we're going anywhere past the second round, let alone the Finals.
But Bargnani is problematic because he's holding the team back by the very nature of his game as well as by his struggles.
