07-16-2021, 10:40 AM
(07-16-2021, 10:32 AM)mvossman Wrote: The game has changed a lot since 2011. KP at the 4 is not worth near that contract. I think I would rather see Noel guard the perimeter than KP. Maybe that is the plan, an improved version of KP/Powell. Noel made Randle look like a good defensive player, so maybe it could work. So you start KP/Noel and Maxi/Powell is backup.
Thibs made everybody in NYC look like a good defensive player, including Noel himself.
I like Noel next to Porzingis, because he is a free-roaming disruptive fast (help) defender, which is actually what we need. It is something that Carlisle could never accept and was never willing to accomodate in his idea of strict positional defense. But that is Noel´s biggest strength. Plus he should be very affordable.
I think Noel would be the PF in those line-ups. KP would be the rim protector. Noel will be asked to cover the nominal (stretch) four and provide the help defense to Porzingis. It´s bascially the cheaper version of what I envisioned Jarrett Allen/Porzingis could have been.