yawner wrote:minimus wrote:yawner wrote:Draft Wiseman with the top7 pick.
Trade the Nets´pick and James Johnson for Aaron Gordon.
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Wiseman is big and long. He should be able to protect the paint. All of them are fast and could be a fearsome transition-offense team.
Apparently, Wiseman can shoot 3s, so the 5-out system could be developed.
A very big and long team who should be able to put good screens and play pickandroll and pop all over the offensive half ot the court.
While big, they should be able to defend fast smallball teams.
Those of you who keep posting faketrades of KAT playing at PF (or Gordon at SF) deserve to be banned. ASAP.
P.S. And yes, seppuku is suitable.
Give us good arguments why.
1. Offensively, Towns is an opposing coaches nightmare. They can’t guard him with their own big center, he’ll drive past them or shoot from outside, and if they put a PF on him, Towns has too many moves in the post (and surprising strength). In some situations, a big center simply can’t be on the court with no one he can defend. My favorite example is a couple back to back games in Utah last year. Gobert is a fantastic defensive player, and UTA can’t just bench him against MIN. In the first game, Gobert stayed underneath the hoop, and Towns bombed him from outside, in a game the Wolves won by double digits. The next game, Snyder had Gobert play KAT man-to-man, which I must admit he did credibly, and the Jazz won. What strikes me is that Utah has an All Star center who is historically great at altering shots down low — and the team still had to adjust. Big slow center may simply get played off, as long as we don’t bail them out adding our own big slow center or PF.
2. Defensively, Towns has been bad as a center, but that does not mean he wouldn’t be worse at PF. Towns has the tools to be a defensive center, and surprisingly good one-on-one defensive FG%. His problem is decision-making, and that issue could multiply if he was forced to make decisions on the perimeter. As a center, particularly in a low-decision, dropback role, he has the potential to be okay. He just needs to stop being so aggressive, and getting fooled by NBA vets.
3. And I see one last area that is important — Towns sees himself as a center. He actively campaigned for the All Star Game to not remove the center position, and later, when he won the Skills competition, he told everyone he was elated to do it as a center, to represent centers. We make a big deal about keeping Towns happy in other areas, like signing Russell and, to a lesser degree, the latest preoccupation with Booker. If we told Towns, “Sorry, we know you’re the Franchise, but we’re going to move you out of your position for some new guy...” I guarantee he would not be happy with the organization.
