12-03-2019, 01:42 PM
(12-03-2019, 11:30 AM)HanspardsShowerVoice Wrote: I'm totally on board with upgrading Powell on defense, but I'm not concerned with how you guard Embiid in the post. Number 1, I'm not going to build my team to hyphetically match up against 1 other player in another conference. Two, Embiid actually shoots a lot of 3s. The best post up center in the league doesn't even want to be a post up center in 2019. More concerned about how can switch on a stretch big on the perimeter and keep KP under the rim than I am about being muscled by some 2019 version of Shaq that doesn't actually exist.
As far as Jokic ... Denver runs the offense through Jokic at the top of the key. He's more of an offensive facilitiator than a true old school post up center. He's only getting 5.6 post ups per game. I think people get overly concerned about hypothetically giving up paints in the post "feels" like you're being bullied or immasculated, when the math says the Mavs just really need more and more 3 point defense. It's like football defensive coordinators who are like "Dammit, I don't care if we give up 30 points through the air, we're not going to have the opponent impose their will on us through the run game !!!"
Right I am not that concerned with Embiid either as he is a bit of a unicorn. You might put Boban out there to keep him from killing you inside and force him to shoot more jumpers which are hit or miss.