07-04-2025, 12:09 PM
(07-04-2025, 12:03 PM)F Gump Wrote: I don't see any "move" needed per se or any big drama. He can go in a game as a C where everyone else is smaller. He was LA's only C more or less. He played C regularly, he knows how.
He just does not like being a C. (Why? I'd guess he prefers a Big Guy on the floor alongside to be the designated "bully," so he will not have the job. Or maybe he prefers to play as a 4 where he will then almost always be bigger/longer than the opponent and naturally more dominant.)
The "move" is that he plays more than half of his time at center without being pissed off about it. That requires that the coaching staff gains his trust, which shouldn't be too hard given their history together.
AD might fear playing center due to his injury history, but his first big injury as a Mav was a non-contact and very much PF sort of injury.
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