nate33 wrote:DCZards wrote:Unseld probably sees KP as being able to play a role similar to the one that Joker plays with the team that Wes Jr. was a lead asst. with the last few seasons.
I don't know if that's his plan or not, but it makes pretty good sense to me. Since we don't really have a true ball-dominant PG, and we have a bunch of pretty good shooters and cutters on the wings (Avdija, Sato, Beal, Kuzma, KCP), why not run a "point center" system where we get the ball to Porzingis at the high post and have guys cut around him? Porzingis' height and shooting ability will open things up because you have to guard him tight, and it has to be a center guarding him because nobody else is tall enough to challenge his shot. And with the opposition's center away from the rim, it frees up all the back-door cutting angles. Having Kispert and KCP being absolutely lethal from the perimeter will freak out the defense just a bit to open up more cutting angles, just like Robinson and Herro do for Miami (who run a similar system through Bam).
It'll be even better if Beal can rediscover the off-ball catch-and-shoot ability he used to have back in the John Wall days, while also being a bail-out one-on-one scorer against switching defenses.
This was the player missing from the Eddie Jordan offense that Wes had a hand in developing. The Pete Carrill Princeton Offense needs a high post center as the pivot of the wheel. It is based on the Bill Russell Celtics system where the first pass went to big Russ above the free throw line, then player movement opened up opportunities from there. It helps if the pivot can shoot a bit from outside, which is why we kept trying to draft a Hilton Necklong or Stewie Pecherov as finesse bigs.