Ideal roles for the current roster

[KillerLeft]

Neither of these guys are in the mold of a traditional center, exactly. I see them switching onto the perimeter and sometimes holding up there. I see potential.

They are as close to traditional as can possibly fly in today’s game. You might like what you see on the few occasions they switch, but the reality is that this is mostly a drop coverage team now, and a big part of that is Kidd’s desire to defend the paint. The trend, league wide, seems to be moving away from switching everything at the moment. 

Honestly, it’s not that bad of a strategy, especially since another large factor in determining that they’re going to play that way seems to have been Kyrie Irving. Trying to avoid switching helps to keep him from getting targeted by larger players. I do cringe a little bit when they have Kleber playing in drop, but I think they’ve switched enough when he and Washington are out there for the team to be comfortable applying that strategy when needed.