Not liking this one

[bajaden]

Based on what I saw of Robinson in summer league I think it's much more likely that he develops a reliable long range jumper than an effective low post game.

If you're playing for today you keep him at the 4, letting him earn minutes with his rebounding and hustle and avoid thinning the frontcourt depth or having a lineup nearly devoid of outside shooting.

But if you're playing for what's best for the future of this team, you find out what his best position is and play him there, even if it is SF and means an unbalanced roster and lots of growing pains.

Again, what I saw through the sloppy and often misleading lens of summer league was a guy who did NOT look like an NBA power forward at all. As I said at the time, the flirtation with Ryan Anderson made more sense after seeing Robinson's game. While it still doesn't address the need for an interior defender to pair with Boogie, the two of them could be relatively complimentary forwards as both are tweeners of different types. And honestly, I'd rather have a bruising freight train of a SF than an undersized, scrappy PF.

We'll see.

I agree with you. As I said, I don't pretend to know the mindset of the the Kings, but T. Robb playing SF in the future wouldn't surprise me. I don't thing he ready to step into that role as a fixture just yet, but he does have a lot of tools that lend themselves to that position. When you see him in person, the first thing your impressed with is his quickness, followed by his better than average ballhandling for a big man. Now I grant you, he played at a speed that was far ahead of his brain at times, and it led to careless turnovers. But those things are correctable.

What I agree the most with, is to find out what his best position is, and then start grooming him for that position. And, the only way to find out, is to experiment. Thats part of what training camp is all about. The bottom line is, if the season starts, and were winning games, I don't give a tinkers damm what lineup were playing as long as its working.