tsherkin wrote:Going by that, they appear to be comparable except that Bynum is a better defender at the 5 and he's also a bit better about drawing fouls (because Al Jefferson just flat-out doesn't for the most part, it's his biggest weakness as a player, since he can play the 4 just fine on both ends).
In principle, it's Bynum because he's more of a true center and Jefferson's basically a one-end center if you play him at the 5 because he's so bad defensively against guys at that spot. Other than that, you're comparing a PF to a C and that's troublesome for Big Al because he doesn't do much of anything that Bynum doesn't except in terms of how he scores.
Sir, could you please read these two articles
http://www.canishoopus.com/2008/7/3/564 ... ottom-of-4http://www.canishoopus.com/2008/7/6/565624/centrisityand stop making the "Al cannot play the 5" argument. Or that he is so much more effective at the 4 than 5.
Defensively Al is not bad, he just needs someone next to him to help. Gomes is a nice guy. A decent 3/4 best set as a 6th man, but not the defensive guy Al needs. (Hopefully Love's BBIQ-Rebounding and blocking will help)
He also became much more aggressive as the season went on and was finally getting calls on things he was not getting calls for earlier. I think these weak spots you mention for Al are not as tarnished as argue.
OhMyBosh wrote:On a side note: how come player heights are wrong for so many people? Humphries is the exact same height as Al Jefferson with (6'9) and without shoes (around 6'8). Hump is always listed as 6'9 and I've even heard 6'8 sometimes. People associate Al as 6'10. Maybe he grew an inch I'm guessing? Bosh was measured a little taller than 6'11 with shoes. Everyone outside of the Raptors organization thinks he's 6'10 when he's actually closer to 7'0. I know it usually means nothing but I don't like the fact that the NBA helps the stock of some players by giving them a couple free inches (Carmelo, Wade, etc) and actually lowers others (Bosh).
I talked to a wolves media guy about this in May. You are using Al's height at draft time, he has grown (many high school guys do) and when the KG trade was made he was a legit 6'10.
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Bynum is on the better team, on a role he should do great. He is not called on to do the things Al has to do. I expect the west to be fun with Bynum, Oden, and Jefferson. lets just hope MN improves enough to make it matter.
