Posted by Marv:
no I get your reasoning. it's similar to Fish' reasoning in preferring Ike to Frye. i'll put it this way - you guys do make sense to me but i disagree with you and prefer a different route. i think you're not gonna win anything with more small guys and i don't see ike or evens as being such an improvement over our pf's that they're gonna make that much of a difference. imo you have to establish height on the club or you're waisting your $100M of investments in skill players. frye and james are far from ideal but they're a good start. i don't mind judging either off their most recent performances - jj in the playoffs; frye in the ncaa's. within reason - i'm not getting crazy on them, i just think they're good pickups for the team and i think the risk is much more worth taking with them than with evaas and ike. for this team.
I agree Marv. Evans may be the better player but the days of playing kurt thomas and co at center are over. If we already had a Center than I would definitely take evens over james but we don't. Detroit has Big Ben but they also have Rasheed, Mcdyess, okur, rebraca and Campbell played key roles in their championship run. Now you could say Frye could've been that guy and Evans would've been the perfect complimentary player but unless Frye completely changes his game in the pros we would still be overmatched in height. I don't mind having James over Evans but I wish we had Evans over garbage like Rose, Taylor & most likely Sweetney and his 300LBs 20mins a night