PrimeShaq wrote:pepe1991 wrote:PrimeShaq wrote:Pepe, on a playoff team no Isaac is not a Sf today. But on a rebuilding bottom feeding team like ours, I think It could be worth it to develop him at the SF the next couple years. Though the numbers don't show it, his skill set offensively gives us more to work with and develop than AG's did coming out of college. He's not going to be a game changer offensively the first couple years at SF but as long as he can start to consistently hit the three ball as he's shown he can do in stretches this season and consistently in college I think he can work there for us with Evan, AG, and an offensive draft pick like Doncic being our main options.
The benefits of doing this I think would really show after a couple seasons of developing his game in the offseason and getting acclimated to the NBA game. I've stated from day 1 that he's raw but has a skill set that if developed could absolutely work at SF. I feel the same way about him developing at the 5 though. Either playing at the 3 or the 5 allows us to take advantage of the really intriguing defensive potential that and Isaac/AG pairing would bring. I want these two to develop next to each other and believe that they could with Isaac playing the 3 or the 5. I think in terms of the bigger immediate impact offensively it would come at the 5 but I think that either way the impact would come in the long term.
But you want to develop player into best version of himelf ,where he is still comfortable doing stuff he was doing all his life.
You can teach somebody how to shoot with their off hand, but that off hand will never feel as natural as his born shooting hand ( just stupid example in lack of words to explain what i'm trying to say) .
I actually like Isaac a lot, i just like him as big guy who at PF can switch on smaller guys and play elite defense. At PF he would not be asked to do much but catch&shoot and roll from pick&roll . Sounds like something much easier to learn than being ballhandler, passer ,slasher ,finisher ,all things that modern SF need to even be viewed as starting level SFs.
Just few years ago ( literally, 4 yeras ago ) we wanted to "slowly develop " Oladipo into PG than gave up on that year later, than we tried to develop Gordon into SF and failed at it, than we tried to develop Ibaka into 20 ppg scored -and failed at it. I'm just so damn tired of trying to "develop" players into something that they are not . Why can't we simply help them achive and live up to their full potential instad of trying to mold and develop them into something they are not?
Whole this PF debate only exists because Gordon. if Gordon doesn't exist on this roster , Isaac as PF would be no brainer and nobody would even talk about it.
This is why Isaac is a unique case. It's not as if he has been a big guy all his life and would now have to adjust to playing SF. He's is a guy that had a late growth spurt and actually spent most of his life pperimeter the perimiter as a guard. This is why he has been on record saying that he is much more comfortable playing on the perimeter and why his skillset offensively is what it is. Is he still raw? Yes. But one of the luxurys of having a 6-11 guy that spent most of his life at the guard spot is that we have the chance to mold him into what we want.
Its not a simple as saying If AG was here he would 100% be a PF longterm. In the shortterm that would probally be the case but Weltman has said many times that he is a guy we can mold into play positions 3-5 longterm and I belive that.
Isaac is not a good offensive prospect for a wing. His shot is a real question mark, and he’s not great at attacking off-the-dribble or reading the floor. Those weaknesses look completely different when you consider him as a true 4/5, but still should be evaluated.
Even as a 4/5 a bad shooting outcome would tank his value as a player. Predicting shooting is pretty much impossible, but there are reasons to believe in Isaac’s shot. Shooting 78% from the free throw line is a big deal.His comfort and frequency shooting off-the-dribble pull-ups is also a good sign. He’s probably going to be a solid 35–38% shooter from the NBA three.
He’s an unselfish ball-mover, he’s got a good first step, and as he adds strength he should be very capable of attacking off one or two-dribbles and finishing at the rim. The fact that he can also pull-up fluidly in the mid-range is a plus, and prevents defenses from playing him like a non-threat.
Isaac has also shown flashes of being able to run side pick-and-roll in a pinch. He can be a bit robotic with his reads at times, which caps his upside as a creator, but he is perfectly able to execute weak-side action for an NBA team.
It is crucial to evaluating Isaac’s offense to understand that he will (hopefully) be playing power forward or center. As a wing, Isaac would profile as a below-average, but not terrible, offensive prospect. As a big guy, if his shot doesn’t fail him he is a versatile floor spacer and finisher who can attack closeouts and keep the offense moving.
That's from article from last year how he is best big man prospect from 2017 draft, i don't think anything really changed in my view about him. This article just reminded me how i was not only one who said it, lot of experts did.
