Sup pals. AD Sucks.

[KillerLeft]

Your take is surprising to me, on one front, but not on another. 

1. The surprising part: AD seems like a player that doesn't fit into your ideal brand of basketball. As he has gotten older, he has gone from dynamic to fairly slow moving. And he's a big that doesn't want to play center!!

2. The not surprising part: The dislike of AD's game around here is most certainly, and greatly, impacted by the emotional baggage that many of us opinion spouters have regarding how AD got here. In that sense, undervaluing AD is baked into the Mavs fandom due to trauma. If Luka was still here, and AD was added to the team because Luka said, "get me AD (which wouldn't make sense to me, but my point still works), then the board might actually overvalue AD. 

What say you?

He's played almost exclusively center this year, as he had been for most of his career. I think that "doesn't want to play center" bit is overblown, and ultimately, because he IS a center, that's what he's going to play most of the time. He's the ideal center, in point of fact, at least my ideal.

He's moving a bit slower right now, because of the weird summer he just had with his eye injury. He was very up front about it on media day, but it's not the norm for him. Just unfortunate timing. I'd say his ability to move quickly and run is still among his primary assets when playing center. 

He's a great, great player. He's too old for this team, and he's injured too much.