Lady and I have finally been enjoying cavs games.. noticed how athletic and smooth he looked 5-10 games ago. Showing up in the box score now
Lamar cedi Wade love is good bench. All useful players. I like a okoro Lamar tag teamI’ve made this comp before and I think others have too… but he reminds me a lot of another late bloomer defensive minded bulldog.
That would be PJ Tucker.
Stevens is an NBA player. That much is clear.
I think so, can cover 2s but assuredly not a PF even in a small ball lineup obviously. However, his jumper is not yet that of a classic "shooting guard."Whats his best position? Is he a 3?
I think so, can cover 2s but assuredly not a PF even in a small ball lineup obviously. However, his jumper is not yet that of a classic "shooting guard."
I do like the aspect that he readily takes smaller players into the post and gets great looks on back downs or kickouts to spot up shooters.
Which lends credence to him playing some 2 when coming off the bench... But I just see him and Cedi as "Wings" whereas I'd classify Dean Wade as a true Forward.
So much of it is simply semantics, {hell, Utah played with no center all of last night and simply went 5-Out on offense and spaced the floor for Conley, Mitchell and Clarkson to operate}
The real factor is can you play and compete effectively at the NBA level in the allotted minutes in the desired role the team expects? He is cementing this season that he is assuredly capable of such.
If Stevens can do this consistently....
Stevens needs minutes if he does like this. But on Markkanen: as long as he is such a net positive on advanced stats someone else is losing minutes. It somehow seems opponents never get extended runs with Markks out there and thats how Bickerstaff have him on big minutes if his offense aint complete poop on some nights. In those games he has also been sitting more in the 2nd half.Stevens needs to take some of Finn's minutes when Okoro is back. Rondo and Okoro also need to share so Stevens gets about 20 minutes a game. But the biggest joke is Lauri playing 30+ minutes.