As the NBA analyst said (Weber) Dallas actually plays small ball (cause Pozingis despite being 7'3 is a stretch 5!, small ball style refers to skill set not size of players
That's not what I said. Read again
Add Clarkson to the list, we negate our strength of the dribble and speed if we insert a player at 1,2,3 who can't attack of the dribble and pass.
Your 4 has to be a stretch 4, to open up the lanes
Players like Tamayo, Troy, Navarro and Kobe fits the bill.
Players like Tamayo, Troy, Navarro and Kobe fits the bill.
I thought Esu should be our starting PF..Well Edu has outside shooting eztending up to Fiba 3 pt line..What Edublacks at present is bully ball post moves...
He's an erratic shooter, though. Hopefully he can work on that and his handle.
this should be put to rest: JC will play for Gilas on worldcup 2023 either as a local or a naturalized player. the discussion now should be who will be playing alongside him to compliment his skillset.
for me, jc should play majority of his minutes in his natural position as a 2-guard. meaning he should have a wing partner who is bigger and stronger than him (while keeping in step with speed) who can guard the opposing bigger/stronger wing. if this is dwight, then let it be him. parks and oftana are also good candidates. maybe kobe if he can develop his perimeter skills/defense. i think, we should have 2 to 3 players of this kind in the final gilas roster to take advantage of the mismatch JC has as a 2-guard.
While I agree that AJ will be our 4 (with Kai at the 5), there is one thing I barely saw AJ did - attack to the basket from the perimeter.
I say AJ will be our tall ball 4 and small ball 5.
this should be put to rest: JC will play for Gilas on worldcup 2023 either as a local or a naturalized player. the discussion now should be who will be playing alongside him to compliment his skillset.
for me, jc should play majority of his minutes in his natural position as a 2-guard. meaning he should have a wing partner who is bigger and stronger than him (while keeping in step with speed) who can guard the opposing bigger/stronger wing. if this is dwight, then let it be him. parks and oftana are also good candidates. maybe kobe if he can develop his perimeter skills/defense. i think, we should have 2 to 3 players of this kind in the final gilas roster to take advantage of the mismatch JC has as a 2-guard.
Exactly...! For all this hullabaloo about Clarkson as sf, it is actually a non-issue if you look at our pool of players. Guy is quicker and a better shooter than any other wing our NT could offer. And at 6’ 3” 1/4 (official NBA combine measurement), he is shorter (and much quicker, I must reiterate—an attribute that’s generally of a sg relative to sf) than Dwight, Parks, Oftana, Tuffin, Ildefonso etc. Pairing him with any of these guys makes him simply THE sg and a wing player, at the most. After all, there is a very fine line separating the positions (2 and 3). Playing him with the likes of Perez, that’d make him undoubtedly the 3.It's tough to gauge those games as JC never really jelled with the team (super last-minute addition) and Yeng coached the team.
He's really a combo guard. We should look for our starting SF elsewhere IMO and start him at SG. Who is he displacing anyway? Perez could be our backup SG.
this should be put to rest: JC will play for Gilas on worldcup 2023 either as a local or a naturalized player. the discussion now should be who will be playing alongside him to compliment his skillset.
for me, jc should play majority of his minutes in his natural position as a 2-guard. meaning he should have a wing partner who is bigger and stronger than him (while keeping in step with speed) who can guard the opposing bigger/stronger wing. if this is dwight, then let it be him. parks and oftana are also good candidates. maybe kobe if he can develop his perimeter skills/defense. i think, we should have 2 to 3 players of this kind in the final gilas roster to take advantage of the mismatch JC has as a 2-guard.
You beat me to it, bro. Well said.
If I might add, for all his deficiencies in the past, I think people better not be counting out Paras as a Gilas. The trend actually favors him as he is now a very viable option on the forward 3/4 spot. I remember people were very allergic of the idea of Paras playing the 4, but look at how modern basketball has evolved...! All moot and academic now, but I think this would have been the most opportune time for someone like Paras’ physical tools to have a crack at the NBA.
I'm also very interested with the Eusebio kid of UP. Athletic, 6'5 shooter/shooter from canada. He could give dwight ramos et al good competition on the other wing position.
With a big man rotation of Tamayo, Bright, Gob, Kirkness, and possibly Kobe, Eusebio may be used as a 3. But even then, Webb and Murrell may be moved to the 3 as well, so it will difficult for him to earn minutes.
You beat me to it, bro. Well said.
If I might add, for all his deficiencies in the past, I think people better not be counting out Paras as a Gilas. The trend actually favors him as he is now a very viable option on the forward 3/4 spot. I remember people were very allergic of the idea of Paras playing the 4, but look at how modern basketball has evolved...! All moot and academic now, but I think this would have been the most opportune time for someone like Paras’ physical tools to have a crack at the NBA.
Very little work to be done regarding his ballhandling, esp if we peg him as a 3/4. It is already decent as is, as his turnovers mostly come from eagerness (gigil) and poor decision making (barreling through traffic and double teams). This is easily avoided simply by being more composed and mature enough, slow the game for yourself, coaches would always say. But of course it wouldn’t hurt if he tightens it a bit more.Kung wala na talaga pagasa si Kobe to improve on his skills( Dribbling, and Shooting), might as well make him a small ball PF...With his athleticism he will run rings around bigger and slower PF...Kobe is actually deceptively strong, remember he was the Paras genes in him, he can defend the internationally 4s ..At 3 he has difficulty defending the wingers because of his slow laterals...If he putbhisbheart into it , he can be a pesky defender at 4, shades of 6-6 version of Abueva with all the athleticism and angas..Defensively I think Kobe is better than TRoy who looks actually soft, Troys meal ticket though is his 3pt shooting...