He's the young one flying under the radar the most. I feel like he might have as much upside as Osman and Sexton. The trouble is that he is such a traditional center. Will they really come back, or will big wings be the centers of the future?
Who do you guys think has the most upside of our 3 young guys? Sexton is the obvious choice because of his draft position. I'm pretty high on all 3. I like the guts of all 3.
I don't think the traditional center is dead in the NBA. We're just going through a phase. It's a copy-cat league and everyone's been trying to beat Golden-State at their own game. They have arguably the two greatest shooters of all-time and now one of the best iso scorers in the game. There's no mimicking that.
We found the most success in 2016 when we went against the grain and played our grind-it-out, iso heavy game. Houston had the recipe last year until they lost CP3, then they fell in love with the 3 and tried beating them at their own game.
The one area GS hasn't been challenged is from the post. Mainly because there aren't elite players in the league anymore who can exploit them there. They haven't faced a prime KG, Duncan, Dirk, or Shaq.
Davis is the closest, but like I've said before, he hasn't figured out how to dominate from the post yet. He's more of a face-up, run the floor, stretchy type of Big. He hasn't learned how to control the pace of a game from the paint.
There will always be a place in the league for a dominant big man who you can run the offense through, get easy baskets, suck in the defense, slow down the game, and draw fouls on an opposing teams best players.
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