Centers and coaching

[Wurider05]

Alot of you seem to think that true centers are so abundant in the league that we can trade Marvin , Bibby, and Smoove to get one. Where are these centers you speak of. If their stats arent's better than Horfs then what's the point. We don't need a seven footer just to say we have one. In some kind of dream world many of you act like a center would solve all of our problems. Heck maybe Randmo and Collins are good enough in limited minutes. Woody didn't fully use the players that we had.

Strategy and coaching was our downfall last season. Our players need established roles to play. For instance the roles for Smoove in order should be defend, rebound, score in that order (maybe rebound should be first). Marvin slash/draw the foul, defend, rebound etc.

None of our players are perfect but they all have something they do really well we should focus on their strengths instead of pissing and crying about what player x can't do or we need to trade this guy.

A good coach will get every ounce out of what he has.

Here are the centers that are free agents right now:

Brandan Haywood (Unrestricted)

Luis Scola (Restricted)

Louis Amundson (Unrestricted)

Zydrunas Ilgauskas (Unrestricted)

Jermaine O'Neal (Unrestricted)

Shaquille O'Neal (Unrestricted)

Brad Miller (Unrestricted)

Rasho Nesterovic (Unrestricted)

Ben Wallace (Unrestricted)

Fabricio Oberto (Unrestricted)

Johan Petro (Unrestricted)

Hilton Armstrong (Unrestricted)

Ian Mahinmi (Unrestricted)

Kwame Brown (Unrestricted)

Tony Battie (Unrestricted)

Sean Williams (Unrestricted)

Theo Ratliff (Unrestricted)

Etan Thomas (Unrestricted)

Earl Barron (Unrestricted)

Mikki Moore (Unrestricted)

Adonal Foyle (Unrestricted)

Primo Brezec (Unrestricted)

Adonal Foyle (Unrestricted)

Jarron Collins (Unrestricted)

Jamaal Magloire (Unrestricted)

Patrick O'Bryant (Unrestricted)

Mark Blount (Unrestricted)

Aaron Gray (Unrestricted)

Steven Hunter (Unrestricted)

DJ Mbenga (Unrestricted)

Darko Milicic (Unrestricted)

Jerome James (Unrestricted)

I have never heard of most of these guys!!!

Edited July 6, 2010 by Wurider05

[Admin]

The problem is that we're asking a guy physically built to play the 4 to be a 5 and a guy built to be a 3 to be a 4. That can work in many games but we've seen that when those guys are going up against bigger front courts that they really struggle to get points and to get stops and to get rebounds and whether we want to admit it or not they are prone to being mentally intimidated by bigger front courts. I don't think we'll be able to easily get someone who is a natural center that can come in and match what Horford did there but what I do think is that we can trade for someone who is at least a natural 4 to play PF, someone that loves to get in there and bang and play defense and rebound on a nightly basis.

That's why I am going to bed every night praying that we can somehow pull off the Paul/Okafor for Smith/Crawford trade. Okafor has his flaws and he's an injury concern but he's a natural front court player who has played there at least going back to college and probably through high school, whereas Josh Smith came up as a SG in high school and came into the NBA as a SG/SF and has had to grow into being capable of playing the 4. He's done a hell of a job but it's too much to ask to have him continue to play there 82 games plus the playoffs and unfortunately he's not capable of moving to the SF spot since he can't shoot and isn't a good perimeter defender.

[HawksFan87]

Exactly lol most fans on here don't understand that though.