CavsKermit
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Are we really at the point where people are criticizing JBB for not playing a center on a 20-day contract in a play-in game against a roster that had a Drummond/Claxton rotation, Durant at forward, and Kyrie?All good and you don’t have to quantify our mutual respect to disagree. I love mixing it up and welcome other opinions. Makes me a better leader, I think.
Have we seen any Brown and Mobley lineups?
In Dallas and Atlanta, he got lost on an island in high PNR with who else on the floor?
To my recollection, we haven’t seen him in lineups with Mobley yet so we don’t know how well he might recover if he gets pulled away from the basket and into space but we KNOW Mobley as a weak side defender covers a lot of warts when he is not asked to be the only line of defense between the opposition and the basket.
I would say damned if we haven’t tried yet in the case of Brown/Mobley/Markk.
We know Cedi and Rondo will gamble passing lanes aggressively and compromise, Okoro and Stevens will play tough man defense and are smart perimeter team defenders, Markk and Love are toughness deficient but Love has smart positional defensive awareness and Markk can wall/contest with his length if he can stay in front of who he’s guarding and Levert is showing he has a deceptive defensive want to with his plus length for smaller guards…
A lot of tools in our shed to be used, not all being used optimally if at all.
I look forward to debating the roster building vs rotation/schematics with you this summer because I think Koby has done a masterful job on that part tjis year, all things considered
I didn't bother to address this the yesterday, but Brown got sonned in Charlotte by Mo friggin Bamba. It's a discussion board and counterfactuals are an inevitable result, but this goes well beyond best case scenario in terms of likely outcomes of what would've happened if Brown was on the floor.