10-18-2022, 03:55 AM
(10-17-2022, 09:40 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: My challenge for everyone here is to really think about the following statement, which I don't expect everyone to accept as gospel, but which I, personally, believe is true:
One of the main reasons Porzingis didn't work here was because he was too slow and couldn't change direction fast enough in half-court defensive situations.
Wood is probably more up to the task, physically, but he has major motor concerns and I have a deep-seeded fear that McGee is going to be a statue out there.
The solution with KP was drop coverage and tons of it. I hope everyone is ready for another healthy dose of that this season. I just thought the basketball people in Dallas were more enlightened, so I can't help but to find all of this quite depressing.
What's your solution though? MBT turned chicken shit into chicken salad with the Wood trade. Not a fancy restaurant chicken salad, but a McDonalds chicken salad. The plus side is that he rebounds. McGee was brought here to matchup against more traditional centers, provide more rim protection and add to the rotation so we don't wear out Maxi. That's a decent rotation with a versatile combination of offense and defense. Consider where we were last year and our limited resources, I'd say the MBT did okay here.