I think you nailed it.
The lack of a true center and depth is killing us.
Some point to Channing as a problem, but thats not true. If he was doing what he was brought in to do he would be perfect. Come in for 20 mins a game as a backup pf and hit 3's.
Issue you have is Frye is our backup center and that is disastrous. Tristan is not a true center and playing way to many minutes. Need him back down to 28 mins so he can do what he does best, provide energy and hustle 100% of the time he is in the game.
It's no secret that our biggest problem is a true rim protector with a semi offensive game. TT isn't doing shit on offense, other than setting good screens but most of the time when he screens he isn't even in the play and you will see him trailing so have no advantage at the point of attack.
Our offense looks stagnant alot of times because we have no off-ball screeners. TT is the one that sets the on ball screens and Love doesn't know how to set a screen to save his life which really lowers our ceiling on offense.
Optimally you would have TT as the off-ball screener for our shooters or Lebron, ala Bogut and have Love set the screens on the ball at the top of the arc, that gives us much more options because Love is a much better decision maker. He can either drive, pass or shoot the 3. Similar to what GSW was doing with Green and Curry.
TT is our weakest link in the starting lineup and i'll tell you why.
He makes our offense very predictable because he is a terrible passer, he makes really late decisions with the ball and unless he has a slam dunk he doesn't know what to do.I have seen TT get the ball in good positions and fail to see an open shooter time and time again. He is not a big target on the roll against starting Centers and that makes it easy to cover him. He has no offensive game, he has no post up game whatsoever which makes switching defense highly effective against the Cavs and it shouldn't be.
Also, his switching defense is very overrated in the RS because Lebron and the wings do a poor job on the boards so we become very vulnerable on the glass even if we do get a stop. That changes in the playoffs once Lebron starts crashing the boards.
Now both of our Bigs are undersized and now that Love is weak, we have pretty mediocre options to go for in the post, and that makes our offense one dimensional if Lebron isn't going all out.
Mozgov was so effective for us because he has a mid range game, was a huge target and was very good at rolling to the basket. TT is none of those.
These things are very apparent to me and I don't understand how our coaching staff fails to see this.
I'm sure that Lebron is going to play alot in the post once the playoffs start, not as a passer that he plays like now, but as a scorer and that's going to attract double teams consistently. Lebron isn't in that mindset yet but I believe we are going to look differently once LEBRON flips the switch, not the team.
