tayottt wrote:
1. The only thing you can actually prove that Kaman does better than Mcroberts is rebound.
You think this is a minor thing when sinking near max money into a horrible rebounder already like Bosh playing out of position to put a terrible rebounder beside him? with your 4th banana money?
Mcbob has the higher TS%,
by less than a single percetnage, all while averaging a whole 8ppg in 30 friggen minutes. The only time the guy is even taking shots is when defenders dared him to. His usage rate was half what Kamen's was which tells me Kamen is highly efficient all while being a far bigger part of the offense when he was in the game.
passing, and defensive numbers.
Defensive numbers? Maybe in a good CLT defense. Who are you passing too. Miami needs rebounds and scoring help more than someone else passing especially playing PF. Lebron wants help not someone passing him the ball back.
You laud Kaman's ability to create for himself in the post but 64% of his shots are assisted. 70% of Mcbob's shot's are assisted. That's only a 6% difference, not significant enough for me to have much confidence. Despite your beloved Kaman's post-up ability he still only shoots about 59% at the rim compared to McRoberts 66%. All of this in addition to the fact that McRoberts actually fits what the Miami Heat do on both ends, is younger, and has the higher basketball IQ.
...on ussage that's half of Kamans only takeing open shots when dared to not with significant offense ran through him.
2. I never said McRoberts can help the Heat at the Center position. I said there are other options for Rim Protection/Rebounding. Ed Davis and Jordan Hill may very well get larger contracts but it doesn't change the fact that there will always be bigs that can provide some rim protection and rebounding available at the minimum. It could be Stiemmsma, O'neal, Aldrich, or someone else.
McRoberts is a horrible fit with Bosh.
3. Elton Brand is a solid player and 2 million is solid value for him. The problem is that he is 35 and can't be expected to have the same night-to-night availability that McRoberts will have.
I'd roll the dice on that at 1 year 2 million before 4 years at 23 on McRoberts.
4. You place too much value on post-up play in the modern NBA.
Because of who else they have playing out of position already at Center.
The Heat won two straight championships without a traditional post-up big and before that the Mavs won without one.
So what, with Lebron or younger Wade, you will always have a chance. Lebron wants help clearly now that Wade on the decline. That's what I thought we were talking about not a guy that only is going to be able to pass the ball back to Lebron.
