deneem4 wrote:Because as good is gortat is he isn't a good fit...
He limits wall ability...Wall has to create for gortat...Wall is responsible for gortat production probably 70% of the time...
Wall is our center piece and he's need spacing to excel...
Our team Need spacing to succeed
Gortat isnt a problem on an individual level...he's good at alot of things...butut he's not great at the things we need
Good all around centers are hard to find...you're right...but he's not a top rebounder nor rim protecter he has great offensive efficiency but he's not an offensive center...
Gortat is good...bUT we don't have to the team for him...
You keep saying this, but you provide no proof at all.
Exactly what type of offense do you think John Wall is best-suited to run? Do you want him playing like James Harden and run isolation sets with 4 floor spacers around him? The problem is, John Wall is a lousy isolation player. We know this because we have horrible efficiency on last-second possessions even when we take our center off the floor. Inevitably, Wall settles for a pull-up 17-footer.
Do you want the offense to be Wall feeding the post and then spotting up on the perimeter to allow a one-on-one post player to go to work? Even if we had a post up center, that would be a waste of Wall's talents. It takes the ball out of Wall's hands and forces him to be a spot up shooter, something he's not good at. And if you haven't noticed, nobody in the NBA except Sacramento does a lot of low post isolation plays these days. It's too easy to defend since the NBA now allows zone defense.
If neither of these styles is ideal, then you want to run pick-and-roll or pick-and-pop. Pick and pop is only efficient if the pick man is a 3-point shooter a la Kevin Love/Ryan Anderson, and there are no centers in the league who shoot 3-pointers efficiently except perhaps Horford.
That leaves the pick-and-roll. Objectively, that seems like the best type of play to leverage Wall's assets. It gets Wall going toward the basket where he can finish with his superior size. It allows Wall to leverage his court vision to pass to the roll man or utilize the skip pass to set up the corner 3. All he needs is a good pick and roll center alongside him.
Fortunately, Gortat is an exceptional pick-and-roll player. Out of the top 25 players in roll attempts, Gortat ranks 1st in scoring efficiency. Among the top 50, he ranks 3rd (behind Whiteside and Jordan, who can't manage nearly as many attempts). As a team, the Wizards rank 8th in pick-and-roll efficiency, and that's almost exclusively due to Gortat.
http://stats.nba.com/playtype/#!/roll-man/?dir=1&PT=player&OD=offensive&sort=Poss
