SinceGatlingWasARookie wrote:Chris Porter's Hair wrote:SinceGatlingWasARookie wrote:
If you don’t want to get beaten by Anthony Davis and the other Laker bigs you must have a 3rd quality big man backing up Looney and Draymond.
JMG, Kuminga and Lamb are not the answer.
That might be true. I don't know what that has to do at all with Omari Spellman, Jordan Bell, Tacko Fall, Pavel Podkolzin, Patrick O'Bryant, Hasheem Thabeet, or anyone else that is big but has no quality.
Tacko fall and is the opposite of small. Tacko Fall is a good shot blocker but he can not defend switches at the 3 point line.
Jordan Bell can move his feet at the 3 point line and block shots at the rim. Jordan Bell is not strong enough to box out truly big men.
I would sign both Jordan Bell and Tacko Fall cheap. Patrick Baldwin can be the stretch 5 that replaces JMG.
So with that Kerr has an answer for any situation at center without spending money. But Kerr has to get over playing small when playing big is better.
You want a shooting center play Baldwin. You want power and inside domination play Tacko Fall. You want a shot blocker that will not get destroyed in 3 point line switches play Jordan Bell. Just decide which is your best option and play him. If you want to play undersized Draymond at center you can still do that but then Lamb or Kuminga must play.
I'm done with this discussion. You want to repeatedly ignore the fact that the players you're discussing can't crack *any* NBA lineup, and haven't been able to for years. They are not, and haven't been, NBA players. You're describing these guys like they just have one weakness, when in fact they can't do anything well at an NBA level and are catastrophically bad at some things. The only one I might grant you is that Tacko Fall is a good shot blocker, which ignores that he's catastrophically bad at *everything* else.
"Jordan Bell can block shots at the rim". Where are you even getting this? He's 6'8" tall and never had a season where he averaged a block a game. His rookie year he almost did it, and after that he never even came close again. The last season anyone bothered him playing more than a handful of games was Minnesota in 2019. That was 4 years ago. That year, for them, he blocked 10 shots in 27 games.
That is fewer blocks per game than Klay Thompson had this season.
"You want inside domination play Tacko Fall." In his entire career, Fall averaged 2.2 points, 2.4 rebounds, and couldn't convince anyone at any time to play him more than 7 minutes a game. He never dominated *anything*. As a humorous side note, I had forgotten that his career free throw percentage was 32%. If he could have convinced anyone to let him play more, he would officially be the worst free throw shooter in the history of the NBA, by a lot.
You're just making stuff up.
My only consolation is that you aren't the GM, you aren't going to be the GM, and I can stop reading these proposals. Because I honestly believe you would sign Fall and Bell, in the face of all logic, reason, and data.
For the last time. We need more size. I doubt anyone here disagrees with that. But you completely undermine your point by suggesting the solution is to sign players that were horrible years ago, and haven't even been able to play in the NBA since then. And for the record, Fall is the only one of them who is actually big. Bell and Spellman are shorter than Looney. Looney has a wingspan of 7'3.5". Jordan Bell had a wingspan of 6'11".