ROSTER TALK: Mavs favs for Vogel if no HC job exists. Kyrie handshake deal?

[KillerLeft]

Before our discussion I thought we needed a “big wing”, but that was basically another way of saying…we need a PF. C’s have basically stayed C’s. PFs turned into big wings. SG and SF in general turned into wings and PGs at some point became ball handlers. Just feels like changing words to change words because…high brow reasons.

2s and 3s used to be called wings back before everyone stating pretending wing could be used interchangeably to describe 99% of the NBA players on Earth. 

I think the way things have changed, some 4's can be described as wings (like Durant, for example)...or maybe a better way of thinking of it is that a lot of 3s are now playing the 4. 

Kleber is not that type, however, imo, because of his skillset. I think he's 100% a 4 in the Dirk era (and still on the lower end, skills wise, even back then) and 100% a big (who can function well in the right two-big lineup) in today's game. I can understand those who'd prefer to call him a forward, holding, as some do, to an outmoded view of what a center actually does in today's game, but not even "big wing" or "bigger wing" does it justice, imho. 

It's all just semantics at some point, I suppose, but on the other hand I do think these words convey actual specific meaning when one pro-basketball type uses them to communicate with another, and I often think the way these terms get used here is likely pretty far from how they're intended to be used.

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If the Mavs (who see him in practice all the time) think he is capable and ready for that kind of role, then I support it.

I agree. But, I'm asking your opinion. Do you think he's right for a ball-handling, offensive initiation role? In other words, do you think it's likely that this is their plan?