now are there going to be growing pains on defense when he guards a bull of a center yea but he's still our best paint protector...KP is quick for 7'3 but his lateral movement is slow for the Power forward position again he is not a power forward. he is a future super star center I hope he plays there the rest of the season.

our future/now power forward is melo he is a superstar at the 4 on offense he can't be stopped as well as being quick and aggressive on defense vs 4's there was a reason he had his best year for us in 2012 as the power forward . Melo is to slow to guard 3's he's a bruiser at 245 and can easily hold his own vs bigger 4's. he needs to stay there the rest of the season.

Lance is a perfect fit at the 3 in our starting line up as long as he is healthy he glues our defense together and on offense can make the super stars better he's a aggressive pump faking driver/open three point maker. he needs to start the rest of the year, a healthy lance is what this team was missing all year.

look at our second unit with that starting line up

Noah/KOQ
willy
kuz
holiday/baker
baker/randle

you can't blame phil for signing jennings or noah how could he know Baker was a lockdown defender perfect triangle back up pg, and willy was a rebounding machine.

Id like to see us groom willy into a low post PF he's pretty small for the center position and with KP there is no room for willy in our starting line up as a center or a back up center if noah is on this team for the long run. willy in the second unit is getting him more offensive touches and can be a major factor/backbone. when melo retires or is moved you can easily move willy into the starting 5 right into his prime, to have a bruising PF next to KP is perfect. now if we can get jordan jenkins in the draft and pushes lance to our back up role we will have quiet the team. thats a very defensive second unit with lance in it.

fitzfarm wrote:

NYKBocker wrote:I like Lance and I think that his injury is one of the reasons we are struggling.

I 100 percent agree. I forgot how dynamic of a defender he was as well as a sneaky offensive player.

He's valuable. It's nice that he can also shoot a little bit. I wish he could do a little more offensively, but he's solid on both ends.

BigRedDog wrote:

fitzfarm wrote:stupid auto correct "melo is OUR"

look at our second unit with that starting line up

Noah/KOQ
willy
kuz
holiday/baker
baker/randle

you can't blame phil for signing jennings or noah how could he know Baker was a lockdown defender perfect triangle back up pg, and willy was a rebounding machine.

Id like to see us groom willy into a low post PF he's pretty small for the center position and with KP there is no room for willy in our starting line up as a center or a back up center if noah is on this team for the long run. willy in the second unit is getting him more offensive touches and can be a major factor/backbone. when melo retires or is moved you can easily move willy into the starting 5 right into his prime, to have a bruising PF next to KP is perfect. now if we can get jordan jenkins in the draft and pushes lance to our back up role we will have quiet the team. thats a very defensive second unit with lance in it.

Come on with this bull crap. Baker lock down defender??? Total crap. Fair defensive player maybe, Way too slow to be a " lock down defender" Lets see him play Harden, Westbrook, etc. He will get torched!

nixluva wrote:I'm very curious to see how this lineup works out the rest of the way. It seems like they finally have a lineup that works and very good rotations off the bench.

Agreed also this makes me think we go after tucker in free agency for our second unit lance and tucker are some of the best defenders in the game... again we will see KP flourish on offense playing the center position.

meloshouldgo wrote:KP and Willy are our front court of the future. Melo is irrelevant

Not saying Melo is going to work out long term or stay
But assuming they play well with Melo at 4, KP at starting 5, they can run a 3 man rotation at C/PF

Willy can come in for Melo or KP.

But OQuinn is a real steal man he can play

A lot of you guys seemed fine with the fact that he did not come in bigger this year- NO upper body work and no weight gain that I could see, yet now folks are talking about him playing 5?
I expected him to come in around 250 this year...obviously, this did not happen.

From the time we got him I talked about him playing the 5, but you cannot do this unless he is physically ready, first.