12-12-2022, 04:05 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-12-2022, 04:08 PM by KillerLeft.)
For the record, I'm still pretty high on the mavs' bigs situation as is, with the exception of the McGee signing, which I hated more than any Mavs acquisition I can quickly recall.
At center, you have Powell, Wood and Kleber in rotation. A wide and diverse set of flexible skills.
At the 4, you have DFS and Kleber in rotation. Even Luka can play some here, honestly, and already does at times with cross matching. A wide and diverse set of flexible skills. Would be nice (but not absolutely necessary) to have a Patrick Williams, Jerami Grant, Paschal Siakim body type in the mix here, but then again, I'm honestly not sure how good DFS would be as a full-time 3. Certainly not 35-40 minutes per night good, I can promise that.
The problem is this stupid notion that Wood must be paired with another one from the center list. It's ruining any chance of using the players to comfortable effect. He's either good enough or he's not good enough, only I can't help but to feel like we're not proactively finding out. This is a rare take from me, because I normally fall on the side of the coach's perspective on arguments like this. I guess I just had a lot more respect for Carlisle's professional opinion than Kidd's. Maybe that's not fair. I guess time will tell.
At center, you have Powell, Wood and Kleber in rotation. A wide and diverse set of flexible skills.
At the 4, you have DFS and Kleber in rotation. Even Luka can play some here, honestly, and already does at times with cross matching. A wide and diverse set of flexible skills. Would be nice (but not absolutely necessary) to have a Patrick Williams, Jerami Grant, Paschal Siakim body type in the mix here, but then again, I'm honestly not sure how good DFS would be as a full-time 3. Certainly not 35-40 minutes per night good, I can promise that.
The problem is this stupid notion that Wood must be paired with another one from the center list. It's ruining any chance of using the players to comfortable effect. He's either good enough or he's not good enough, only I can't help but to feel like we're not proactively finding out. This is a rare take from me, because I normally fall on the side of the coach's perspective on arguments like this. I guess I just had a lot more respect for Carlisle's professional opinion than Kidd's. Maybe that's not fair. I guess time will tell.