12-07-2020, 01:41 AM
(This post was last modified: 12-07-2020, 01:41 AM by KillerLeft.)
(12-07-2020, 12:58 AM)Kammrath Wrote: I just listened to all his comments and didn't come away with RC seeing Bey as a "natural 4" (whatever that might actually mean anyway). *shrug*
Either way, I was really excited with how positive RC's comments were on him. It almost feels like coach has seen enough already to give him a lot of hope in him. I was also really excited by Bey's own comments that basically what he needs to do to get on the court is work on his shooting and being "dialed in" and not letting his attention lapse.
I am personally hopeful that Bey might see some decent bursts of floor time by the end of the season and not just an endless string of DNPs. In my personal evals I actually think he is more ready to contribute than Green if his shooting has in fact improved like RC intimated. I really think Bey is an ELITE ELITE defender if he can stay focused on the details.
I didn’t mean for that to be some kind of contentious take away. It’s just that every single minute of video you showed us was of him playing the 4, and you and I even agreed the other day (I thought) that this was his natural position. Maybe natural is not the right word, but it’s definitely the position he played in college.
I thought that entire chunk of Carlisle talking about him was basically “well, he’s got to play more than one position to get on the floor, and the 3 is actually quite different than the 4.” That’s not even much of a paraphrase - he actually said that stuff. I basically took it as coach speak signaling they want him to learn how to be a combo forward… Just like you do...even though it’s a new skillset for him. I was basically saying that you had it right.
Why you chose to react like you did in the first paragraph, I guess I just don’t know. Sorry if it came off in some kind of argumentative way. It IS a completely different skillset, even in “positionless basketball.” I thought I was pretty careful to word my post as an obvious admission that they’re going to try to do with him what I didn’t expect them to try.