(07-11-2022, 01:38 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: He’ll absolutely rebound better. I’m just not sure that’s worth going a different direction with the team defense approach. Drop coverage is such a give up, imo.
We’ll see. I was just hoping we could live in a world where the roster further equipped them to do the things that worked, but with improvements in rebounding and a little more rim protection. Instead, they boxed themselves in with a guy who ONLY improves in those minor problem areas.
For me, it’s no different than adding a “defense only” wing and then saying you’ve addressed the defense. If you can’t play such a player against good teams because of his offense, what has actually been accomplished?
Fair enough, I'm just not sure I'm in the same boat of how minor of a problem those areas are, specifically rebounding. Rebounding has been a big problem, IMO, that they've typically overcome with great 3 point shooting, but it's made them very one-dimensional on offense. I also think having a better rim protector makes everybody better on defense.
I agree that he's not a huge difference maker, but I do think he's an overall upgrade on DP. We'll see how it turns out.