I thought I already pretty much answered this, but - I think it’s better for a reserve big to be a tougher more defensive proven role player on good teams, than a softer more offensive stat stuffer on bad teams.pdub wrote: ↑Tue Oct 29, 2024 12:41 pm "the first 7 options will already afford enough weapons, and will already have a game plan established. This part of the roster just needs to be a well-rounded role player, not a stat stuffer focal point-type. It's just reserve minutes...They don't need to be All Americans here."
But why ( or why not )?
Sounds like looser talk to me.
A bench player IS a role player. But I get what you mean too, take the best talent available.
"Hey would could have a better player on our team but since he's coming off the bench, it doesn't really matter anyways...so let's ditch the All American for a role player."
Say an opposing big is having a game and gets Cole/Dok in foul trouble. Would you rather have Hunter or Sasha to check in and bang with him?
I’d take Sasha. And I think in this hypo that situation is more likely for reserve big man minutes.
More than adequate, sure. But at the same point in their careers, Sasha averages nearly the same blocks but in nearly half the minutes.Hunter sure is a stat stuffer - but he's 7 foot 2 with a decent wingspan so he bothers players around the rim - and on a team with all those lockdown guards he'd be more than adequate. And it wasn't as if Sasha Kaun was some defensive monster ( of note, Dickinson made a conference defensive 1st team - just not in the B12 - Sasha never did ).
While “monster” is a strong term, I do remember Sasha being a very very solid fundamental X’s and O’s defensive player. I think Hunter has been a comparatively inferior defensively, and at times even a defensive liability.
I mean, yea sure great, but with Cole or Dok starting plus all the other dudes in this hypo lineup, I just think we’d have game planned a lot more schemes than to suddenly go all, let’s have our backup big start wandering out to the perimeter for jumpers!
And then combine him at spots with Marcus? Both bigs can shoot the 3 or pound the rock? Hunter is also a good passer for a big.
And, Marcus is already such a mobile big. Prob the most “score from anywhere on the floor any way he wants” of the Self era. I think the complimenting big mostly just has to create spacing for everybody else, more so than shoot his own jumpers.
With the other dudes we got, we don’t need much more than putbacks out of our backup big…lobs too, for which Sasha has the edge.
Kaun was kinda useless on the offensive end - with bad hands. He scored points from put backs.
Sounds like something someone would say when they’re crushing on someone, hard.
I cannot stand Hunter and i'd rather win without him
