TDL Archived: The 2nd Rnd Pick Yankee Swap

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Based on how they're seeing Wood (so far), I don't think they'd play him by himself there, either, in any sort of regular way. Maybe in small ball situations. 

And, I think, like the situation with Wood, that's a little backwards of them and would curb his effectiveness quite a bit. 

BUT, unlike Wood, I think Collins CAN play the 4 with a center. It's probably not the most advantageous way of highlighting his skills, but Wood flat out can't do it, imho. Wood is 100% center.

Curious what people think of WHY Wood doesn't play center here.  To me when you see him out there, he should be able to hold his own physically as much as Powell can.  I feel it's that he doesn't know how to make the right rotations or be that anchor who is vocal.

(Random tangent on that last thing before my next point, I was lucky enough to sit right behind the Nugs bench in our last game up here and was able to here things that were being said on the court and the two most vocal dudes on defense for us were Powell...and Mr Wood himself so I know he's trying to be that guy.  Also, Mike Malone knew all our plays as soon as Luka threw up the hand signal, wasn't surprising but it was cool to see in real time.)

My hope is that Collins can fit into the system as an anchor a little better than Wood does just because he seems like a smarter player.  That said, I do think it would be just us going to small ball situations the way we do now with Wood and not a game to game occurence but I think we'd be more willing try small ball with Collins than we are willing to today with Wood.