contract wrote:RexBoyWonder wrote:contract wrote:If Zo survived and thrived playing against Shaq, Ewing, Olajuwon, Robinson, Duncan, Sabonis, Mutombo, and a ton of other bigger guys, I think Bam can survive vs the current crop of centers.
Bam needs to grow a pair and take the open 10 footers or he's going to be useless on offense at any position.
Bam needs to own the mid range, regardless of what position he plays. He has to grow the scoring part of his game, that's his first and only priority.
But if you listen very carefully to Pat, you can sense he wants to nudge Spo into play bigger. I think smallball won't work without having multipole ELITE wings/guards. We don't have that at all.
My sense it that we're heading to a complete overhaul - Everyone expet Jimmy and Bam are very available for trades.
Herro is the biggest X factor, I'm a bit down on him but IF he can make a jump and become a better consistent scorer, that would be crucial in our quest to contending.
Pat is an oldhead. I hope Spo pushes back.
This team lacks talent and Pat has to take responsibility for that. And if Pat wants to go big he needs to find big talent, not insist that Spo plays Bam with some imaginary big that he hasn't drafted or signed. And maybe don't draft an even smaller "big" than Bam and then wonder why you're playing small.
Pat literally traded away Olynyk for a broken down guard and then complains that we're playing too small?
Meh Spo went into the season with a roster that included Bam plus two floor-spacing bigs. Literally first game of the season Spo proceeds to start Bam at center flanked by Moe fkn Harkless at PF. Spo had his smallball mind already made up. He eventually went to Olynyk out of desperation, but then once Olynyk was traded in a high risk/reward move (that virtually everyone supported) and we acquired a legitimate defensive/rebounding center, Spo then refused to give Dedmon and Bam any minutes together
Btw does anyone else question how Olynyk was utilized here? There were obviously fewer mouths to feed in Houston but KO put up 19/8/4 on a hyper-efficient 67% TS with a 123 ORTG, so not entirely empty stats. He only took 2.2 more shots as a Rocket but the big thing is his FTA jumped from 0.9 in Miami to 5.0 in Houston where he was actually allowed to create with the ball rather than just spotting up and chucking 3s after 20+ secs of Butler or Bam stalling with the ball. Houston with Olynyk on the floor actually had a better ORTG than Miami did for the season lol
