08-01-2023, 12:15 AM
I have to hope that Lively gets to start some and that he just sells everyone on his being way ahead of his projected development to earn a lot more play time early on.
Time gets you the experience to develop your game quicker so I am hoping he is good enough to earn that time.
Jokic and Embiid are annually fighting for MVP and showing that center is not a dead position.
You need to stop the other teams centers who are scoring threats. If we can see Lively work on that potential and he can defend then he is worth developing on offense as he produces well enough on D and so I will be ok with him getting most of the minutes at center.
We do not need him to show he can score a lot.
The only thing I want to see him do is master the other end of the floor and defend and maybe our 2 star PG's can make him look like an all star with perfect feeds that allow him to get many easy buckets so he produce enough that he can become a threat sooner.
We can engage in all the conjecture there is and cry about coulda shoulda woulda but we kind of have the mix of talent that we have and we should use what we have now to create a game plan that will win on both ends of the court and just see what we have before we engage in sending out any more of our trade assets so lets be patient and silent and that will signal that we are happy with what we have at center now.
We need to play what we have so we can evaluate it and then make a plan based on what we see after half a season.
Holmes could return and perform at his past performance level if so then we have a nice talented big to compliment what Lively has to offer and he can probably play PF some as well.
That then becomes a big win. Now we have a usable asset that other teams might think a lot differently about.
We could have rushed things and traded him off and gotten very little consideration for what he is able to do. PATIENCE is required.
This team has to be together and play next so we can determine what we have and then once that is done we can decide what it needs and if we need to make a trade happen to improve it anymore.
We do not need to be in a rush because teams will get hurt and lose and think that they need to trade someone or maybe a young guy does real well and now that team is thinking we need to sell off that center of ours because we have his future replacement now.
Time gets you the experience to develop your game quicker so I am hoping he is good enough to earn that time.
Jokic and Embiid are annually fighting for MVP and showing that center is not a dead position.
You need to stop the other teams centers who are scoring threats. If we can see Lively work on that potential and he can defend then he is worth developing on offense as he produces well enough on D and so I will be ok with him getting most of the minutes at center.
We do not need him to show he can score a lot.
The only thing I want to see him do is master the other end of the floor and defend and maybe our 2 star PG's can make him look like an all star with perfect feeds that allow him to get many easy buckets so he produce enough that he can become a threat sooner.
We can engage in all the conjecture there is and cry about coulda shoulda woulda but we kind of have the mix of talent that we have and we should use what we have now to create a game plan that will win on both ends of the court and just see what we have before we engage in sending out any more of our trade assets so lets be patient and silent and that will signal that we are happy with what we have at center now.
We need to play what we have so we can evaluate it and then make a plan based on what we see after half a season.
Holmes could return and perform at his past performance level if so then we have a nice talented big to compliment what Lively has to offer and he can probably play PF some as well.
That then becomes a big win. Now we have a usable asset that other teams might think a lot differently about.
We could have rushed things and traded him off and gotten very little consideration for what he is able to do. PATIENCE is required.
This team has to be together and play next so we can determine what we have and then once that is done we can decide what it needs and if we need to make a trade happen to improve it anymore.
We do not need to be in a rush because teams will get hurt and lose and think that they need to trade someone or maybe a young guy does real well and now that team is thinking we need to sell off that center of ours because we have his future replacement now.