TheNetsFan wrote:Gooner wrote:Papi_swav wrote:We're definitely not big enough at all. Maybe height wise we are but weight wise we're lacking. Claxton is still too light for centers. And Ben is not tough enough to fight for position down low, and KD is a twig. Sharpe is not there yet either, we shouldn't have to depend on a 3rd sting G league player to contribute alot on a contending team. We need a big, point blank period.
Golden State is not big enough, but they are the most dominant team of this era. You play big if you have strong big men. When you have Simmons and a bunch of shooters on the roster, you should play small most of the time.
This. GS imposes their will on the game and plays opposing bigs off the court. There's no opposing big in the East that I am changing the roster construction or philosophy for. That includes Embiid who will assert dominance in the post for a quarter and then get gassed and hoist up 3s for the rest of the game.
If you're talking something like the Mayo rumored deal of Harris+Claxton+Cam for Ayton, where you're clearly upgrading the position, consider it. Just adding another rotation big? No.
You guys fail to realize that GS has a guy named Draymond Green who is the toughest player in the NBA now, he imposes his toughness on centers. He's like Ben wallace or Dennis Rodman, now ofcourse he isn't as great as those guys but when you have an "ENFORCER" like I've been saying, then you can get away with not having a legit center. But we don't have that guy on our roster , Clax is not that guy and Ben is far far from that type of player.
I've been saying we need an Enforcer down low to impose our will, this is why we get beat up in the paint and in the playoffs when the games slow down, teams will zero in on this and just keep punching it in on us in the paint just like the Pelicans did. I'm not saying just go after any center that his 7 feet and fat, but a guy that can hold the paint down with his brute toughness.
GS is not the blueprint, we can't model ourselves after them because they have guys that make everything click and Draymond is a huge part of that culture, which is why he can put up triple singles and he's still in the top lineup of the league. Rockets tried to do what GS did and look how that came out, several teams are trying to be like GS but it doesn't work without that Draymond piece. I get it , we don't have Shaq centers anymore but we still need a guy downlow that imposes his will . Clax, Ben and KD is not that, what makes those guys great is that they can play solid defense on the perimeter AND they can switch to guard wings and guards and the perimeter but downlow they will get beat up. Teams are going to figure us out and just keep attacking the paint.
