MettaWorldPanda wrote:lastb1ckman wrote:MettaWorldPanda wrote:It's ok to draft backups but why draft a projected long term backup when you know Bam is probably going to be here for another 10 years. Why would you draft someone who can't share the floor with him for long stretches. This has been this teams Achilles heel from the big spot since KO left. We wasted roster spots on Thomas Bryant and Orlando Robinson when Spo never even remotely tried to play them with Bam. He even gave up on playing Love with Bam cause he was too slow and relegated him to backup Center. Make it make sense
I don't follow the confusion here. The literal solution to a big next to bam is already here, Jovic. He's already doing the whole Kelly O thing and getting better. If big men on our team can't out perform Jovic on offense & defense, they ain't playing over him.
Thomas Byrant is on the team, because at the time we had been dealing with old vet centers wearing down by the time the playoffs came. He's still youngish, has some offensive versatility, and was the best back up C available at the time. That's a much better reclamation project than usual for us. If he really hit, he might have been able to start eventually, which just gives us much more positional versatility.
Orlando Robinson is on the team because the back up C position has always been shaky, he must have shown some great strides at improvement the last offseason, and he's still young. Who knows how good he'll be in the coming seasons, he might even compete with whatever center we draft this year.
However both didn't end up playing much because Jovic unexpectantly improved enough over the season to deserve to a starting spot next Bam. And Klove, even at age 35, was still more steady on defense than either of them, along with replicating most of what they could bring on offense. So to the bench they go. And I support this, because watching them play this season showed how dire they still were there.
You draft someone that has potential to play with both Bam and Jovic is what i’m trying to stress here. When Bam is out you have someone who can slide to the Center spot and do Center things. When Bam is in can stretch the floor. Don’t pigeon hole yourself to just drafting a backup Center who can’t play with Bam. You can get a strick backup non shooting Center in the second round. I would also be fine with a thick small ball 4 that can slide Jovic to stretch 5. Someone in the Crowder/Tucker mold. Kel’el Ware has that potential to play with both Bam and Jovic.
100%
In a vacuum I really like some of these athletic Centers like Bona and Missy, but as long as Bam is here it makes no sense to invest considerable resource into adding any non shooting bigs.
The game is going in the direction of 5 out offense, meaning every offensive player as a 3 point shooter.
You can still a C whos a non shooter if he's great on defense (like Bam) but you can't play 2 non shooters next to each other and expect a top 10 offense.
Ware and Filipowski are the only Centers that MIGHT work next to Bam due to their shooting. And even them would be somewhat risky picks because if the outside shot doesn't translate, you've wasted a high pick on a player with no path to get more then 14 minutes per game - that's just wasteful resource management.
picking a non shooting C at #43 is much more justifiable, because for some reason we couldn't develop a decent bench guy or get a decent vet minimum C for a while now.
