twix2500 wrote:Here is the reason why you dont want to play a player out of position, its because you make them less of a player. You want your core players to be in position for them to succeed and the role players to play off of them. If you move Bosh to center, you putting him in a position to succeed less. And taking off the focus of your best players learning how to be their best instead they learning how to do a new job they are not equiped for. Its kind of like moving Mike Pouncey to Tackle because your tackle sucks, and your backup center is decent. So now you will have a decent tackle instead of a great center. Moving Bosh to center will make him a decent center, and you will have a decent powerforward on the court in Haslem. You have to weigh do i want a combo of great powerforward and bad center or combo of decent powerforward and decent center? We witness how playing a player out of position can effect him when he were force to play Brian Grant at Center so Anthony Mason can start in the early 2000s. Instead of Brian Grant becoming a great powerforward, he became a decent center for the Miami Heat. Fortunately Mason was a great powerforward that one year, but we never made moves so Grant can move back to PF. Unfortunately we wore Grant body out, and he never was able to improve on his game as a powerforward.
+1 - gr8 post - especially the Grant info, always thought this. If we just let the players play to the best of their position instead of asking them to be hybrids of other positions. That is why I want us to let our real centers(curry/pittman) play center. If we are weak at center, so be it, but I don't think we will be.
