Newyorknick94 wrote:NoDopeOnSundays wrote:How does he work with Mitch? The Mitch diehards on here need to answer this question, because we can't have Obi only being used as a floor spacer to accommodate Mitch's need to be in the paint, Obi was drafted because of his offense and to maximize that he needs to be able to use his full range of skills from PnR, to post ups to faceups. If the idea is to have him parked outside the 3 point line on every play then this is a wasted pick, if we're going to allow him to play like he did at Dayton then Mitch is going to need to be able to shoot at some point to help spacing.
I don't think Obi is a smallball 5 right now either, he's just not strong enough or heavy enough, so how he works with Mitch will decide what happens with Mitch.
Mitch has been working on his jumper and will be there for outback’s and rebounds I think they will fit fine Mitch is usually in foul trouble anyway so who know how much time they’ll actually play together Randle is the bigger issue we can’t play obi and randle together that defense might be worse than randle/Portis I think the knicks should trade randle for whatever and don’t pick up Portis option and the team would be a lot more balanced I’d even keep taj for vet leadership off the bench.
Whether he's working on it or not, he has to be able to make them at a high rate, or else you'll see a minutes distribution similar to the Lakers where they don't spend that much time on the floor together. Just look at how Obi scored, and while he shot a nice percentage from three it wasn't on a high volume, so we can't just expect him to space the floor right away.
No modern offense has two interior big men now, not a single one.
