2020-2021 ROSTER TALK: Archived

[KillerLeft]

Potentially, but he's teetering on the edge of being too small to play the 5 at all at this level.

Well, I think he could play the 5 in extreme situations, but I mostly meant the 4, which, as others have said, is his most natural position. 

I agree that 6'6" isn't ideal there, either, but smaller guys have succeeded. I have an easier time envisioning him using foot speed and vertical spacing to his advantage at the 4 than I do imagining that he develops the handles and pull-up game of a 3 in this system. I'm not betting against the latter, but I think it's a fairly long term project, which is why he was a second rounder. 

In the relatively short-term, I think he could play the 4 better than DFS, for example.

EDIT: Defensively, Bey at the 4 allows you to do some good things with switching, because he's going to be able to guard 3's sooner than he'll be able to play the 3. Can you imagine Bey and DFS as the forwards with a good defensive 5??? Heart-eyes-emoji, tbh.