EXTENSION: Gobert signs 5yr/$205M w/ UTA | DAL "significant interest" if available

[DanSchwartzgan]

Here's how we can bring this back to Gobert:

1) If WCS continues to play well, earning more and more minutes...

2) and IF Carlisle thinks the way Kamm does about playing two bigs together (not Powell types, but real, actual BIGS)..

...then I think we'll see some WCS/Porzingis lineups get a real shot at some point this season. 

I don't anticipate that happens, personally, but I'll be looking for it. 

I think you are probably right about this.  I believe this is what Carlisle meant when he said KP will play the five mostly and maybe see some time at the four.  Maxi and Powell are really four's (your position is dictated by who you defend).  Plus, KP plays with Powell and Maxi all of the time.  So, this wouldn't qualify as "and maybe some time at the four".  Other than Boban, Willie is the only big we have that would push KP to the four if they played together.

Willie isn't Gobert, but it will be interesting to see if it gets tried.


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Quote:  Kammrath

It’s a running joke on NBA nerd Twitter that the way to differentiate between a casual fan and someone who understands the nuanced nature of winning basketball is to ask what they think of Gobert. Someone whose NBA diet mostly consists of SportsCenter highlights and TNT games will largely be oblivious to the enormous impact Gobert has on winning, and the myriad ways he defines the terms of engagement at both ends of the floor. He might be the most schemed-for player in the NBA, because opposing coaches have to prepare their teams not only for his stifling presence at one end of the court, but also for his game-changing gravity as one of the league’s very best roll men.

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There is a lot of sister-kissing going on in the other thread right now.  I'm an OPJ fan, but you don't give up THJ AND Powell or THJ AND DFS for him.  The names we are left with (other than Gobert) are essentially in the same class as Hardaway.  Last season THJ was in the 92nd percentile in PIPM, the 88th percentile in RPM and the 87th percentile in Raptor.  That doesn't grow on trees.  We are fortunate to have DFS and Green who can play SF, but if you are giving up THJ AND anything, the return better be top 30/40 type.  The only one left is Gobert.  Outside of that the OPJ's and Griffin's and Gordon's and Hields and Fournier's and Grant's of the world aren't elite and aren't worth an AND deal.  Gobert is, but some people won't see it until it happens (though as Killer points out WCS with KP may provide a cheap replica)