jflipclip wrote:I see what you're saying. I guess I was trying to address the two other complaints about him: him not being a good fit with CP3 and him being a worse fit next to Griffin compared to DJ. The thing about CP3 and DJ was that people thought he would be like a Tyson Chandler. In NO, CP3 had David West AND Tyson Chandler so that mid-range shot and post-up skill set was more of a threat and gave CP3 more options with both.
Tyson Chandler is a good comparison point. I think Tyson had better ball skills coming in because man was DJ raw, but it took awhile for him to develop into the very good NBA player he is today.
ANYWAYS, back to DJ. I noticed he almost always finishes with one hand. He needs to work with finishing with two, on lobs/dunks AND rebounds. I also noticed he moves terribly laterally which makes his defense very blah (easy to go around him) and pair that with eager-to-block-every-shot-mode, that's an equation for super bad D. It's sad to say that KMart and Evans are outplaying him. I REALLY hope him and Griffin make big strides in the offseason.
If not, lets make room for Trey Thompkins to shine pwease.
Yeah, he does move terribly laterally. I think partly its because he doesnt have much low body strength so he gets very rigid trying to maintain position on the low block. True NBA centers eat him up (Bynum always has monster games against him), luckily there aren't that many true NBA centers anymore.
Let's hope he (and Blake) work really hard over the offseason.
