2020-2021 ROSTER TALK: Archived

[StrandedOnBeauboisHill]

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.

I agree with every word here.  I really wanted Bey at 31 this year so definitely had a quick moment of being bummed until we traded for him and got excited again.  I've always felt what DFS needs next to him is simply a slightly bigger version of himself so that we can throw someone a little more athletic than Maxi at Kawhi or Lebron in a playoff series.  He's obviously not there yet but he has that Shawn Marion build that we desperately need.  

Everything I just wrote is also why I was pretty high on Aaron Gordon fitting here perfectly as well.  It's also why in the extreme hypothetical where we end up with a high draft pick I'm slowly becoming obsessed with Jonathan Kuminga fitting in here, he would also be a project but less so than Bey.