Who will start at Power Forward when the Season Starts?

why not sign Yi Jianliang? let's go Yi.

 

Actually McHale said he liked Jones and he worked the hardest out of the 3.

We just waived Ice-cream man... Not seeing the reason of adding a 28 year man...

 

fixed

 

And this is what rebuilding does, it actually makes you excited about training camp.

 

If pat possessed something even resembling a post game and was a better rebounder I would say he is the starter. I dont think he has shown nearly enough for him to be considered the definite starter.

 

Other than being a "veteran", I'm not sure why anyone would prefer him.

I think it's D-Mo's job to lose.

 

I'd take any of those 3 over ppat surely

 

I think Patterson is going to show improvement this year. It's been a full year since his surgery and I see him getting better over the off-season.

Patterson will start in the beginning of the season. Montiejunas will get backup center minutes. Jones will get 20 minutes backing up the 3 & 4 positions. There's not much to say about Morris other than he has a shot. White is a project who will get minutes here and there throughout the season.

 

If Asik is our Starting Center, then you have to have a 4 that can post score(DMo). But if we were to get bynum, i dont see any other starter than ppat.

 

Didn't McHale say that DMo is not ready to be a starter?

 

With Omer being the slated starting Center it is critical that we have a offensive threat at 4. If not the others teams Bigs will sag off their men and make it harder for our wings.

Who plays the starting four will come down to who has the polished offensive game.

For me that narrows it down to Pat and Dmo. If Pat is the starter D-Mo will see quite a few minutes at the 5 which Coach wants anyway.

 

I was assuming that Patterson and Donatas are both traded before the season starts.

 

Patrick Patterson. duh. McHale has a man crush on this guy and he actually has EXPERIENCE. maybe halfway in the season, DMo takes over. DMo has never played in the NBA, he has to get used to it first.

Lin/Livingston/Machado
KMart/Lamb/Douglas
Parsons/White/Jones
PPatt/DMo/Jones
Destroy/PPatt/Harrellson?

well be competing against Phoenix at west spot, at best. worst case, we're better than kings.

 

I'm really hoping we get bynum. Young guns will take over the west in 5 years.

Lin/Machado
Lamb/Parsons/
Royce/Jones/
DMo/PPatt
Bynum/Asik

If we keep this core plus another star. In 5 years well be set. And well have a really good 2nd 5, like how Detroit Pistons did it a few years back when they sub the whole starting 5 with the Hustle 5. east finals yearly.

 

Yep. Thats what he's gonna have to work, getting really good at a couple of things.

 

1. I don't know, but it's irrelevant to the point that NBA coaches want to acclimate rookies to the game before starting them, with only a few superstar exceptions.

2. I already said that.

3. I know and it doesn't matter.

4. Yes and they might even show themselves to be better than Patterson. But, I expect Patterson to start anyway. Being a better player doesn't mean you're going to be accustomed to the NBA pace and so on. To overcome Patterson's veteran advantage to start in Game 1, they don't have to just beat him in practice; they have to absolutely blow the doors off of him. D-Mo at least does have professional experience. But then so did Scola (even moreso) and they still didn't start him in his first game.

But, unless Morey makes a big trade, we'll get to see in a couple of months. If it makes watching training camp interesting, hold out hope for D-Mo. I still think it's a foregone conclusion, even if Morey hasn't admitted it yet.