01-04-2021, 07:34 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-04-2021, 07:46 PM by dirkfansince1998.)
(01-04-2021, 07:15 PM)Dahlsim Wrote: Why not feel out his prior coaches as I said? Stan Van Gundy is on record as considering it the biggest mistake of his coaching career that he didn't use Boban more than he did. That was despite the fact that he had Drummond in front of him.
Doc Rivers commented extensively on how he found he could use Boban effectively as long he understood that he had just as much chance to badly outplay his 'stretch 5' counterpart on a given night as it was to go the other way. He would play him and see who was getting the advantage on a given rotation.
Popovich used him effectively behind Tim Duncan so much that he set him up to get a big contract to move to Detroit.
I think we already had this conversation a few times. In the end no former team used Boban in a more featured role so we don´t know if he could be as dominant as you think. It´s not like Boban is getting less minutes in Dallas. Looking at his career he played in about 2/3 of all games and around 10 minutes per game. Be it SA, Detroit, LA or Dallas. The only coach that tried to give him more minutes was Brown but he also is the guy that thought Simmons, Horford and Embiid could start together.