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My way too early, possibly problematic look at potential GT Hoops roster management
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<blockquote data-quote="lv20gt" data-source="post: 1009239" data-attributes="member: 2299"><p>It's not an 80s mindset to consider traditional positions. It's a matter of convivence where the format has built in expectations of things often undervalued or outright ignored when fans try to take a "positionless" view of evaluating a roster such as defense and rebounding. It's easier to start with assigning players to traditional positions and then adjusting for their skillsets to allow for non traditional line ups than starting from an idea of positionless and just vague guesses at minutes that often ignore the dynamics of how the line up would actually play out. </p><p></p><p>For example, it's unlikely George and McCollum will be combining for 61 minutes. Both of them are weak rebounders (George was dead last for us in rebounding rate, and McCollum was second to last for OU last year), both were on the low end defensively compared to the rest of the team (going by DRTG). George was last for us and McCollum was second to last for OU. It should be noted that in general OU was a much better defensive team and so McCollum's rating wasn't bad but was also probably helped a bit in general by the team defense being better. In any case both of them also likely aren't nearly as effective without the ball in their hands. Both are good enough scorers to be threats, but not really good enough to warrant being an off ball target with the aforementioned limitations. That is especially true when you also factor in we will likely often want to get away with having Ndongo at the 5 with someone like Reeves/Sutton/Obrien at the 4. Sutton is an unknown but neither Reeves nor Obrien are particularly strong rebounders either. So if you are both planning on going two pg and going smaller in the front court, you're just begging teams to exploit you on the glass and down low. </p><p></p><p>And that isn't to say either George or McCollum are bad. Both are good guards, but they don't seem to have much synergy in skillset outside of situations where you really just want to prioritize ball handling over everything else especially given the other options we seem to have in the back court. Now maybe we have something like Kelly goes pro, Terry adjust horribly to the what Stoudamire wants, and Mustaf isn't ready to contribute right away and we go to it out of necessity, but playing half the game with both of those on the floor seems very unlikely no matter how you view things. It'</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="lv20gt, post: 1009239, member: 2299"] It's not an 80s mindset to consider traditional positions. It's a matter of convivence where the format has built in expectations of things often undervalued or outright ignored when fans try to take a "positionless" view of evaluating a roster such as defense and rebounding. It's easier to start with assigning players to traditional positions and then adjusting for their skillsets to allow for non traditional line ups than starting from an idea of positionless and just vague guesses at minutes that often ignore the dynamics of how the line up would actually play out. For example, it's unlikely George and McCollum will be combining for 61 minutes. Both of them are weak rebounders (George was dead last for us in rebounding rate, and McCollum was second to last for OU last year), both were on the low end defensively compared to the rest of the team (going by DRTG). George was last for us and McCollum was second to last for OU. It should be noted that in general OU was a much better defensive team and so McCollum's rating wasn't bad but was also probably helped a bit in general by the team defense being better. In any case both of them also likely aren't nearly as effective without the ball in their hands. Both are good enough scorers to be threats, but not really good enough to warrant being an off ball target with the aforementioned limitations. That is especially true when you also factor in we will likely often want to get away with having Ndongo at the 5 with someone like Reeves/Sutton/Obrien at the 4. Sutton is an unknown but neither Reeves nor Obrien are particularly strong rebounders either. So if you are both planning on going two pg and going smaller in the front court, you're just begging teams to exploit you on the glass and down low. And that isn't to say either George or McCollum are bad. Both are good guards, but they don't seem to have much synergy in skillset outside of situations where you really just want to prioritize ball handling over everything else especially given the other options we seem to have in the back court. Now maybe we have something like Kelly goes pro, Terry adjust horribly to the what Stoudamire wants, and Mustaf isn't ready to contribute right away and we go to it out of necessity, but playing half the game with both of those on the floor seems very unlikely no matter how you view things. It' [/QUOTE]
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