But no great lob thrower.....has to be Amen. FVV rarely looks up......at the slow speed his eyes move up, the alley oop opportunity is gone.
While there may be "moving parts" for a larger blockbuster deal, Stone is only spending another million to secure a more reliable third center (Capela). Adding in DFS, the Rockets have incredible in-game flexibility on their frontline. The current guard rotation may lack size, but after one day of free agency, it's hard to criticize.
That would be ideal but the caliber of player we’d be seeking is a coin flip to become available within a few months. Usually takes 6-18 months depending on who becomes available and whether you win the bidding war. Who knows. Maybe they are betting on Bucks falling apart. Personally I’d rather bet on Sengun or Amen popping and make that more likely by surrounding them with better shooters. I don’t understand what the think is going to happen when Chet and Jokic pull these drop coverage guys to the perimeter. Let’s see who they sign and how it goes.
I don't mind Capela as a third string center. I'm surprised they'd be willing to go into the LT for that role. I still don't think they have enough offensive creation on this roster though so I'm not convinced this team is "stacked" or "loaded." I think it's a really good, deep roster but missing a really important element.
I understand the desire for a stretch 5, but bringing in a traffic cone guy like Vucevic or Olynyk or whatever was just never going to happen on an Ime Udoka-coached team. Just so hard to find a stretch 5 who actually plays defense, is the problem. For what it's worth I do think our spacing got significantly better overall by adding KD, replacing Dillon with DFS, presumably starting Jabari. We likely won't be an elite 3P shooting team but I'm hopeful we'll be a little bit above average now. I think Stone is comfortable with what we've got going for the regular season right now and is trying to maintain as much flexibility as possible to do whatever needs doing at the trade deadline. Maybe that's another star player, or maybe it's just tweaking some things, moving one roleplayer for a different one.
Well, we saw Udoka likes going big. I'm looking forward to the new big lineup of Amen PG, Durant SG, Sengun SF, Adams PF, Capela C.
The Clippers just signed a backup stretch 5 for $9m so that's not really valid. In any case, we have 2 guys ahead of our 3rd C so your 3rd guy it would make sense to have someone who can do something different. If there's a team that has a strategy to stop us, it will work on all 3 of our C's. What's worse is that we still don't have a single guy who can punish a team where the opponent is not great at attacking the rim - that's where you'd slot in a backup 5 who can shoot. I don't think our spacing got much better to be honest because that's not how spacing works. The defining characteristic of spacing is the quality of your worst shooters, rather than the quality of your best shooters. They never left our top 3 shooters open and they still won't. That was always the problem. Of course KD's ability to hit pullups will result in some more success on bail-out shots but at the same time you may not be taking into consideration that KD has spent his whole career refusing to be a high volume 3PT shooter. He takes 5-6 per game. Jalen took over 8 of them. So Amen/Sengun/Jabari/FVV are going to have more stress on their efficiency. Another role player is not the needle mover. We're heavily bound to having 2 non-shooters which is an experiment that has failed everywhere for the past 20 years. Kind of playing the lotto with this commitment. Personally I think Udoka has never seen Sengun as a C and has tried to bring in tougher C's at every single deadline. We're perfectly positioned to trade him now and there's going to be an odd turn in his on court impact probably. I hope it's not the case, but I'm getting worried about his future here.
I just wanted to point out Capela is a different type of player than Sengun and Adams. He's a better pick and roll guy. I could see him utilized in certain matchups where they see pick and roll as a weakness on the other side.
capela back in the day used to dominate jokic on both ends. if he can even somewhat contain him now that would be a nice plus. really not liking the still horrid FT shooting though. and it would have been nice to have big center who can drain 3’s to open up the lane
The Capela signing was absolutely essential for this team. This allows Ime to continue load management for Adams preserving him for back to back games and the playoffs. Ideally, Capela gets 20 min of game time and Adams gets 15-20 min with the option to rest on back to backs, just enough to help win games and stay at game pace and fitness. A lot of great flexibility with 2 high quality backup centers. Replacing Jock with a much more proven Center without raising cost is quite remarkable.
I just don’t understand why Capela would accept a 3rd string center role when he could start other places.
Come on, it has nothing to do with speed. It is about distance. FVV just has too much space up for his eys to cover.
