Post#626 » by WizarDynasty » Wed Jun 5, 2013 6:01 pm
Compare Bennett to Blatche is off.
My four criteria for evaluating Blatche on a pyramid base. I am not even going to evaluate the higher levels. He didn't qualify for Wizard material meeting 2 of three criteria.
Blatche was not explosive athlete number one. He showed quickness but he wasn't explosive. Blatche had to gather himself to make an explosive movement. he was quick but he didn't have the combination of power and quickness which equals explosive.
2. Blatche did not show consistent ability to finish through contact. In fact he was horrible and very inconsistent finishing through contact.
That immediately disqualifies him from being Wizard material high in the lottery.
3. Blatche displayed above average body control with the basketball so he only meets 1 out of 3.
and now the category that especially applies to bigmen, Blatche absolutely didn't not display elite lower body strength. You rarely saw him move other big bodies around using only his lower body and hips.
Bennett--definitely is explosive even though he is 6'5 without shoes with long arms.
2. Bennett absolutely shows elite body control with the basketball.
3. Bennett absolutely shows consistent ability to finish through contact even without refs blowing whistle.
3 out of 3.
Bennett absolutely shows great lower body strength rebounding.
Bennett meets the bottom threshold for wizard player.
Now we move to 2nd level of pyramid---standing reach, wingspan, does the player dominate at the basics stat categories for his position against amateurs. it was hard to evaluate with blatche because he didn't play college basketball but we wouldn't have gotten this far because we would have saw at least 30 games of Blatche going against college level competition to see that he wasn't explosive...quick but not explosive...to different attributes. We would have saw that he couldn't finish consistently through body contact against other amateurs. he gradually got better but definitely not above average.
3. We would have probably saw above average body control with the basketball.
But blatche has never had elite lower body strength.
Bennett begins to break down in the second level of the pyramid and definitely the third level.
He isn't a rim protector--but if he plays a carmelo anthony or lebron james type roll where he bounces between the 3 and 4 based on match up. It's not that big of a deal.
Blatche doesn't make it out of the first level of the pyramid for the physical attributes needed for wizard material.
He qualifies in the second level with his height, and wingspan, but height and wingspan are less important than....explosiveness, body control with the basketball, and ability to consistently finish through contact...and for bigman..which blatche definitely is since he can't play small forward..and bennett can...is lower body strength.
It's pretty evident that Bennett has alot more lower body strength than Blatche. So there you have it.
Now if we were drafting blatche to be a backup big in the 2nd round, he was great value but paying blatche starter salary...when he was missing the raw elements needed to be a wizard starter, is recipe for disaster. We built Blatche up to be the best he could be mentally, but sculpting a player missing 2 of the three physical elements of a wizard starter means that even after developing that player..he is inherently flawed if paying him a starter salary.
That's the problem with Porter. He fails on 2 of the three attributes.
He isn't explosive. He doesn't demonstrate consistent ability to finish through contact. He shows pretty good body control with the basketball.
He isn't a bigman so are not as worried about his lower body strength.
Even if we develop porter to his maximum potential, he will never have the explosiveness to create during clutch. If he doesn't show consistent ability to finish through contact at college, he isn't going to show it during the pro's. And he shows decent but not great body control with the basketball. He isn't elite at dribbling, he doesn't show the body coordination to consistently draw fouls and get to the free throw line one on one.
Two things you need to create...explosive first step..not quick just quick...you need quick and powerful first step...that attributes automatically forces the defense to collapse because a player can get by his man with a pump fake. If you don't have explosive first step, you can't get by your man with a pump fake.
Secondly, if you have consistenly shown the ability to finish through contact, meaning you can absorb shoves and nudges like "Derrick Rose" and still score. There are alot of perimeters players who showed the ability to absorb contact on the drive and still score even when the ref doesn't call the whistle. I don't see alot of it from porter. Most of the time, he scores going to the basket with nobody between him and the basket. Rarely do I see him challenge a bigman and still score. That is a special trait to have. Bennett shows it all the time and Shabazz show it all the time.
Finally, above average body control you usually see on the break. I see a few times where porter will do a nice eurostep and extend the ball away from his body to do an under the rim finish but only on fast breaks, never in a half court settings. Most of what he does are quick pullups. Very Finesse player but a finesse player without explosiveness is the definition of andre blatche and javale mcgee.
Hopefully grunfeld has learned his lesson to stay away from these types of players. You want a player who has a combination of quickness and power. meaning he is quick but also has serious force generated on his first step..and explodes off the ground...not a quick player who is a "slow" jumper.
quick leapers...equal explosive leaper. Adams is a quick leaper.
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