Stolen from another board. Poster is probably a Blazers fan.
Positives:
-Rebounding (always in top of the league)
-Interior D (not a shot blocker per se, but uses his enormous body very well, and is smart defender).
-Passing (for a center, he can and will make ridiculous passes to cutters).
-screen setting (very UNDERRATED trait of his, one of best in nba - he made life very easy for Portland guards every night).
- decent shooter (last year he upped his 3 to 36 percent).
-size (both on O and D)...dude is just huge.
-good guy/personality on and OFF the court.
-does not back down (he even had scrimmish with KD once that will have to be ironed out haha).
- generally plays very good against JOKIC (or, better than average center lets say). Whether its their history in Denver, coming from same school of basketball, or similar size/built, whatever.
Negatives:
- athleticism (after broken leg, he has gotten a step slower and sometimes willingly choses layups over dunks to preserve legs).
-as a result, is sometimes not as good around the rim as could be (chooses finesse over power, so it looks soft)
- talks to refs waaay too much.
- injury risk (although a BIT overblown - people just bring up stats without realizing he was FORCED to sit out 30+ games laat 2 seasons for tanking).
I hope the last part is true and he manages to stay healthy. If healthy he should be great against DEN and MIL(vs Lopez, we have no answer for Giannis). Maybe after getting spanked by Balkan boys in last three playoffs(Giannis, Luka, Jokic) getting one of those is a good sign.
