I was right, Kamm was wrong (ab Gobert)

[Jason Terry]

We've already seen it happen. Westbrook was benched multiple times in the 4th quarterduring the regular season, and Frank Vogel was thanked by the fans. 

Our very own RC benched Porzingis/reduced his role drastically in the playoffs to no one's ire. If anything the players get the flak for not being versatile enough. 




Because he can affect the other 36 minutes of the game drastically. Gives us different looks. Allows us to be more versatile as we can finally match opposing bigs. Just because we're getting Gobert doesn't mean the Mavs can't go small anymore. That's the beauty of having a 2 offensive creators above 6'6, and several 6'6 and above wings.

Your last point is important. The best feature of Gobert is the team being able to play multiple styles. Small ball(which should more appropriately be called positionless basketball) is not going away. The end game of positionless basketball is 5 Giannis’s with better 3pt shooting and handles. Or five 7ft Steph Curry’s that can paint protect, defend and rebound. Or five 7ft Luka’s with more athleticism and better defense. So it makes no sense calling it small ball when the ideal players are bigger players who can do everything(big reason why Luka is so valuable as a massive guard). Gobert only does 2 things well. Not very positionless of him. It makes sense to use “small ball”sometimes. Sometimes it doesn’t. Versatility

It’s also why Maxi needs to stay if we get Gobert. We get Gobert and trade Maxi…….we suddenly have a huge hole in our team and we would need a big who can stretch the floor with 3’s and defend the perimeter. None of which Gobert can do. Hence why we destroyed Utah. They had no answer after Maxi unlocked the “small ball “ lineup. One dimensional teams like us and Utah don’t stand a chance though against teams who can do both. Either because they can play both ways with different types of players or they have a special big that can play any way(Ayton, Bam, Giannis, Embiid)