toooskies wrote:NRSV wrote:Making Mobley play center seems ill-advised in hindsight.
I mean, the scouting was 100% correct when it comes to Mobley being an NBA center-- he's not big enough and not strong enough to play there (yet). He's lucky it's just a few week injury.
The Cavs are about to hit the hardest part of their schedule in the coming days, we'll find out how much Mobley has meant to their success as they go against all four of the top seeds in the east (Brooklyn twice) and four of the top five seeds in the West in their next 10 games. Oh, and the Bucks too. (And Orlando.)
Yeah, I can’t fault them for thinking he’d be ok there for a game or two with Allen sick. Just the game before, that entire 4th quarter comeback was with him at center and Allen on the bench. The difference was Horford was there for second game, and he’s just an old school strong guy with all the tricks. He’s a center atm only against the right type of opponent. He’s not at all ready to do it nightly.
I’d have lost my mind at JBB if he had sustained some injury from all the minutes. But it wasn’t that type of injury. Thankfully it’s not a lower body issue that would scare me more.
If he sits the entire 4 weeks, which I imagine he will if they err on the safe side, he will miss 14 games.
Cavs need to win about 4 during that stretch to remain a viable play in candidate. It will be a tall task as the schedule is brutal starting tonight and a bunch of others are still out. Hopefully if they get all the other guys back sans Sexton, they’ll be able to eek out a few on the backend. This week is going to be a bloodbath.
And if they don’t? Maybe it’s for the best as they need to draft about 3 wings and hope one works out.
It’s a shame they didn’t hang on to Hartenstein. We have a lot of 7 footers, but no real backup center who can log any minutes. Tacko isn’t playing 35 on a night when Allen has an issue.
