But I do hope once AD physically matures, he will end up being a full-time center.
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But I do hope once AD physically matures, he will end up being a full-time center.
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That's fine, but I expect him to play both close to equally. He's the guy who can credibly play both well in the 3 man rotation. You have 96 minutes for bigs. If my choice is play Davis at the 5 or crowd out Ryan Anderson for Aijinca, that isn't even a question.
I'll say this, and I absolutely love Ryno. As a player and he seems awesome as a person too. But I just might even put put Gordon above him. Gordon fully healthy.... Pretty good. So I guess I'd say:
AD
Jrue
Tyreke
Gordon
Ryno
Asik
But that's not AT ALL a knock against Ryno. It's just that if FULLY HEALTHY, this team is stacked like crazy.
Coach:"AD, you will be playing more at PF than you have"
AD:"Okay, I will say the right thing to the media."
Fans: "AD is not a center"
It doesn't matter what he wants. Even if it's not lip service. The "position" doesn't matter. Him being put in the best role to ensure wins does. Does that mean he's a power forward or a center? Who cares? Personally, if there was no decent option behind him at "center" then he would be the center. If there is a worse option at power forward, then he plays power forward. Whatever helps us win. Personally, under most circumstances, I think we'll be at our best with Ryno and AD on the court at the same time, whatever that means in terms of positions. Does that mean that's what Monty does? No. Does that mean that's what AD would prefer? No. But I don't care either of those things so long as we're talking about hypothetically making the team better.
AD is a natural power forward. He should get most of his minutes at this position because that is what best suits his game.
He will avoid a lot of ankle injuries if he stays there.
Gordon followed by Holiday are the best overall players on the team. Davis has weaknesses in his game which really is scary. When Davis' game becomes complete, he will be one of the top three players in the league. AD needs a post game and play better defense. All three can play any style or any system which seperates them from the rest. The others are role players. Evans is best suited for an open court play for example.
Did you watch last season? This isn't clippers' Eric Gordon. He's probably the 6th best player and 100% the 6th most important.
Edit: Just to add on... How can you say overall? Eric Gordon only scores and does nothing else. And he didn't even score that well last year. AD does so many things and even though he can obviously improve he is definitely already the best player.
He's not asking to play anything. He's making a statement of what position he likes. He obviously will play whatever position. Before Ryno went down he actually spent more minutes at C than PF.
The point I was making was you never turn the entire team philosophy to your 21 year old star. If the coaches agree that he is best at PF this season that's fine. Let's see how many seasons they feel that way.
Tyreke is horrible without floor spacing... and what better floor spacer is there than Ryan Anderson?
Ryno is easily (EASILY) the 2nd most important player on the team even if he isn't the 2nd most talented. And EG literally makes everyone he plays with worse so I don't even know why he's being brought up
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