I was right, Kamm was wrong (ab Gobert)

[MrGoat]

It's interesting that folks are saying this.  He scores 15 points a game with unreal efficiency (over 70% TS this year) and is an excellent offensive rebounder.  Advanced stats struggle to capture defensive value, but they do a very good job capturing offensive value.  All of them, whether its box score based or on/off based consider Gobert a significantly better offensive player than Powell.   We saw the difference in Powell's game when playing with Luka vs without in the playoffs.  Gobert would likely see a similar jump playing with Luka, vs Mitchell.  

I'm not sure Gobert can punish small ball enough to force it off the court, even with Luka.  That does not mean he would get played off the court, but it does mean he would have to play more at the perimeter, and that takes away a lot of his defensive value (but not all of it).  

Not crazy about his salary or the issues he seems to have with other NBA players, but if we could get him cheap (filler salary and the first) I feel like you still make that play.

Those regular season numbers mean very little. He's pretty much just limited to dunks and putbacks and he plays on a team with great spacing. Some of what we were able to get away with guarding him with in that series was downright insulting. The high efficiency numbers in the regular season where he gets a few dunks because the defenses aren't fully locked in just doesn't mean much in the playoffs.

And I already said earlier in the thread I'm up to add Gobert for the right price because I think he'd work better in our defense (could have sorely used him against Ayton last night). I'm just tempering the expectations on his offense, he's not a good offensive player, just an opportunist.