Chapter29 wrote:Charlie V can average 15 points no problem as long as you put him on the court. The issue is can you hide his defensive liabilities enough to warrant 30 plus mpg.
This highlights the reason CV has struggled to fit here this season imo. We have too many poor individual defenders, LK had oviously decided to give mo and redd big minutes and they've both played very poor D at times, mo moreso, so i think LK doesn't feel like he can have 3 poor defenders in the game for long stretches and has therefore sat CV. CV is the second best individual offensive talent behind redd on this team imo, and is a much greater offensive threat than yi, save for yi's long rang J. However LK obviously feels Yi is a better defender and perhaps works better defensively with Bogut.
For mine whilst Yi is a slightly better defender i wouldn't be comparing him with rodman in man defense just yet, and i do feel he gets lost on rotations a fair bit. That block on Oak the other night was sweet, but doesn't make him camby either.
All this adds up to me wanting CV to start and get slightly more minutes than Yi at this point in Yi's development, but i'm fighting a losing battle there.
I said in another thread i also wouldn't trade CV at the moment as i feel like his game is coming back and his value will only continue to increase either to us or as trade bait, but if pressed as to who i'd want for him in a trade I'd say Battier, although we'd struggle to get him. Battier brings a lot of what we desperately need - hustle, solid D, rebounding, leadership, and more hustle.
