Trey Lyles is our best backup center.
Frankly, not close either. He's tiers above Noel and Len
Trey Lyles is our best backup center.
Trey Lyles is our best backup center.
You really like Len lol
I think you're overrating him by a substantial amount. Unfortunately post up defense isn't needed much anymore. Len can get some stops in the paint but he also fouls at a very high rate. Advanced stats have Noel as a far superior defender by a mile. Hopefully he isn't cooked and can at least play 2/3rd the season.
Please point out something I said that logically shows my bias towards Len. You are clearly biased in evaluating Len’s game because you seriously used foul rate as a criticism of Len’s game for a guy tasked with coming in for 10 minutes to use his hard fouls most of the time. That was literally his job at times to play rough. Len’s been in the league 11 years. Obviously when he was a rotational player on the Hawks, Wizards, even Kings in years past his foul rate was not abnormally high. So your 1 criticism of my comment of Len being a great post up defender was non-sensical. Just pointing that out …
And using advanced stats for small sample sizes is pretty close to useless. In fact, you didn’t even say these advanced stats you speak up too. I might as well say “advanced stats prove Len is better” and not give any stats too. Lol. But since you said it, point to these stats, in fact show the advanced defensive metrics for Len once he took over the backup role. If you can’t use them or find them, well then stop making baseless claims over them & criticizing my posts when you’re the 1 not making rational/consistent sense.
If Len was a top 5 center he'd be starting somewhere. Not getting 10 minutes in the last 6 games of the year, and a few playoff minutes.
I'm sure NBA GMs and scouts have better talent evaluating skills than most people here.
I like what he brings, but let's be realistic.
I can see McGee playing ahead of Len and Noel.
One of those three likely doesn't make the roster.
Skal is headed for Stockton, Queta is on the outside looking in (is he still eligible for the 3rd two-way contract?) which leaves Nerlens, Alex, and JaVale competing for two spots. McGee's familiarity with Mike Brown and Len's performance at the end of last year probably give them a leg up heading into training camp. If I had to bet, those would be the two that I'd choose. But I like that Noel brings a different dimension with his quick hands
Someone correct me if I'm wrong - but I believe we have the roster space for all of Len, McGee, and Noel. Queta and Skal probably back to the G league. This is assuming Jones takes a spot, and Ellis heads to Stockton.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong - but I believe we have the roster space for all of Len, McGee, and Noel. Queta and Skal probably back to the G league. This is assuming Jones takes a spot, and Ellis heads to Stockton.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong - but I believe we have the roster space for all of Len, McGee, and Noel. Queta and Skal probably back to the G league. This is assuming Jones takes a spot, and Ellis heads to Stockton.
Technically, but I think it's a bit of a stretch that Queta would sign a 3rd G-League deal with us. He'd probably try to ink with another G-League squad or maybe go overseas.
The extra C body is just flat out important too with it being very unlikely that Domas plays 79 games again. We can insulate with any other injury to the starting 5, aside from Domas.
I get that feeling as well.
I would argue that we can't effectively guard against an injury to Fox, either. A huge slew of big men gives us an option to move off of the high post offense and go a bit more traditional if Domas goes down, so that would soften such a blow. But we really don't have a long-term solution if Fox goes down. Davion/Monk/Jones just aren't likely to cut it as lead guards, and we'd completely lose our clutch scoring creation on top of that. Perish the thought!
But three of the four can make the team - and one of them (McGee) is already signed to a guaranteed contract. Now, if you're talking about competing for a "rotation" spot - I concur. The way I see it, Len, McGee, and Noel are all competing for the backup center role, and secondarily, spot minutes based on matchups. I remain extremely curious about what both McGee and Noel can do. Len is our rock - Literally a highway cement partition when setting screens. The man sets walls.Personally, I feel like Len and McGee are competing for a spot, and Queta and Noel or competing for a spot. Nothing to base that on, just my own feelings.