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[mvossman]

I think my biggest issue with roster construction is that we have the biggest strongest point guard in the league and yet we are so small and weak.

Green is a perfect example of this. He’s too small to be our starting 3. Gets pushed around too easily. DJJ on the other hand is much bigger and just as fast as Green at guarding point of attack. The solution to get bigger is moving a player like DJJ to the 3 and getting a big 4(Siakam, Grant, WCj, DFS, Isaac etc). Then it would be logical to make Green a guard. The problem with that is he can’t dribble, create or shoot at a high level. I really like his energy and he has games where he takes over. I’m just not sure he’s in the long term plans

Hardaway another undersized player.

I read somewhere that Kyrie is the best rebounding guard per 36 in the entire NBA. I would think Luka is right there. For us to give up those killer offensive rebounds like we do it’s a game decider if our shots aren’t falling. Just a few personnel changes could really flip the script on how these games are decided

I have no interest in wading through the semantical argument of point guard vs point forward, but Luka is clearly not defending the smallest quickest player on the other team.  From a defensive standpoint, we are hiding Luka on the weaker forward and Kyrie on the weaker guard.  In our starting lineup Luka is the second biggest player and DJJ third.  Green/Exum are not playing the 3 defensively, they are generally guarding the better guard.  I think our size issues are way more an issue on the second unit.  We are playing undersized guys in the frontcourt, and its particularly bad when Luka is on the bench.