01-01-2024, 01:10 PM
(01-01-2024, 12:39 PM)Winter Wrote: I'm not exactly sure why it would "skew" anything. You can't play Powell or Holmes 36 minutes if everyone is healthy. Kleber doesn't play that many minutes even when he does play.
Pascal gets more rebounds than any other single individual outside of Doncic and Lively, so the starting 5 will clearly be a better rebounding team. And I would argue that we still need a backup center.
Comparing rebounds per game for players that play different minutes per game is apples to oranges. All your really saying is Siakam plays a lot more minutes than those players.
We have been filling most of the center minutes with Lively/Powell/Holmes, all of which rebound more per minute than Siakam. Replacing any of them with Siakam would likely reduce total rebounds.
The guys to compare him to are Williams, DJJ and maybe Maxi. He is a big upgrade over Williams and a smaller one over DJJ. He would take minutes from Williams and push DJJ down the lineup so he would definitely improve overall rebounding, but playing him at center is not going to be a rebounding upgrade.