Re: Niche Players in the NBA and how that relates to Derrick Williams...
Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2013 5:00 pm
Abe, I agree with your initial post. And one of the reason why you want to build a team around niche players, as opposed to players that are average or below average at everything, is that an organization should be built around the strengths of the people in that organization. That is very hard to do when your have players that don't have strengths (D-Will was pretty much in this category).
Luc has a couple very obvious (and important IMHO) strengths. Now Adelman can game-plan to those strengths. We can now floor one of the, if not the, best defensive 1,2,3 combo in the league. That combo also should run the floor very well (we'll have to wait and see with Luc, but I would expect that he will do it as well as Corey).
If we run better than anyone else in the league, we can defend well above average (which should not be a problem with Luc, cause we currently are somewhere in the middle), and have multiple outside shooting threats, it seems like we have a team that should be able to score efficiently, defend well, be flexible to defend against other team's strengths (should that be necessary) and, thus, win more games.
The structure makes a lot of sense to me. Are we a championship team? No. Can any team go from 9 losing season in the next year to a championship team? No. And, we seem to be on a pretty good track. If we start to develop our players a bit more effectively, I think that should be doing pretty peachy moving forward.
Luc has a couple very obvious (and important IMHO) strengths. Now Adelman can game-plan to those strengths. We can now floor one of the, if not the, best defensive 1,2,3 combo in the league. That combo also should run the floor very well (we'll have to wait and see with Luc, but I would expect that he will do it as well as Corey).
If we run better than anyone else in the league, we can defend well above average (which should not be a problem with Luc, cause we currently are somewhere in the middle), and have multiple outside shooting threats, it seems like we have a team that should be able to score efficiently, defend well, be flexible to defend against other team's strengths (should that be necessary) and, thus, win more games.
The structure makes a lot of sense to me. Are we a championship team? No. Can any team go from 9 losing season in the next year to a championship team? No. And, we seem to be on a pretty good track. If we start to develop our players a bit more effectively, I think that should be doing pretty peachy moving forward.