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Moses Brown: What's Up With Him?

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Kuiper said:
Brown doesn't really have much of a BBIQ, but he can be competent if he is given an assignment that is within his abilities, it is a simple assignment, and he doesn't have to make a lot of other decisions on the fly. That has really been the secret of his limited success (and his failings) with the Cavs thus far. He can run the floor and get lobs, he can do the pick and roll, he can rebound, and he can block some shots. He can't do much else offensively and defensively without extensive coaching and time for repetitions and is going to have trouble making in-game adjustments (hence the problem when Bamba started making threes).
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Honestly knowing what you can do and doing it consistently is a very useful thing. Plus the list of skills you laid out there is a fantastic list for a backup center. I mean, that’s all Andre Drummond can do well too

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He's a project who should get minimal run absent injury. I'm also a little concerned that unlike Hartenstein, he has no offensive range. If both our starting center and our backup center play that close to the basket, it impacts not only who your starters can be, but who you can have in that second unit. If you're paying him third string money, it doesn't really matter I suppose.
 
CavsKermit said:
He's a project who should get minimal run absent injury. I'm also a little concerned that unlike Hartenstein, he has no offensive range. If both our starting center and our backup center play that close to the basket, it impacts not only who your starters can be, but who you can have in that second unit. If you're paying him third string money, it doesn't really matter I suppose.
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I have seen enough on the tape to think he is capable enough to offer that finish for Garland inside and to clean up misses. He is very long, and he looks for the inside feed when the guys drive, from a position that is able to finish if his defender drifts off to stop the driver.

I cannot say he has any defensive game.. However, I think JBB's best quality is coaching big men defensively. In any case if he continues to average 8 and 8 in 15 minutes, he is very tradeable. He is not strong enough to help against drummond or Embliid, but that would be alot to expect a 22 year old gleague..
 
CavsKermit said:
He's a project who should get minimal run absent injury. I'm also a little concerned that unlike Hartenstein, he has no offensive range. If both our starting center and our backup center play that close to the basket, it impacts not only who your starters can be, but who you can have in that second unit. If you're paying him third string money, it doesn't really matter I suppose.
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If he sticks next year he’s likely our 5th big assuming we find a SF to move Lauri off the bench. A nice situational piece that helps against bigger bench bigs and for foul or injury minutes. We’ve definitely had much worse players in that role.
 
CleveRocks said:
I have seen enough on the tape to think he is capable enough to offer that finish for Garland inside and to clean up misses. He is very long, and he looks for the inside feed when the guys drive, from a position that is able to finish if his defender drifts off to stop the driver.

I cannot say he has any defensive game.. However, I think JBB's best quality is coaching big men defensively. In any case if he continues to average 8 and 8 in 15 minutes, he is very tradeable. He is not strong enough to help against drummond or Embliid, but that would be alot to expect a 22 year old gleague..
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If Garland and Brown play any type of meaningful minutes together next year, something has gone very wrong.
 
I really see more potential for brown than you guys do. I don’t think he’ll ever be a starter but I think he could be a very useful role player. Not sure why people are down on him, he’s very active, gets offensive rebounds, moves well without the ball on offense, good rim protector, rarely seems to do stupid shit on the court. What more do you want from a backup center? It’s like everyone is trying to be sophisticated by pointing out the ways he’s not Embiid or AD. Well, obviously. He’s a role player.
 
I dont mind keeping him. As he is, he is fine as a 4th big. 6 hard fouls and can eat minutes guarding behemoths during the regular season. Can slide up and play some minutes if Allen or Mobley are out. Pretty easy to run the same sets for him and Allen as he is a solid rim runner and doesnt try to do things he cant. Best case scenario, he is the one in a thousand case that levels up a ton between 23-25 years of age and suddenly we have a really good 3rd big. But even if he doesn't improve at all, keeping him as a 12-15th man is not bad and you could do much much worse (cough TT cough).
 
This bump was misleading and lame. I thought this was a new thread announcing it.
 
Dammit. I thought we got him again! "Get off your hands, Ferry!... I mean... Koby!"
 
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