bwgood77 wrote:Damn, maybe we should take a look at Zach Edey after seeing his 40 pt, 16 reb game today. With Wemby, Chet and Sengun in the west, maybe we could use a big like that.
7'4 with a 7'10.5 wingspan. Pretty good #s across the board. Dalton Knecht also had 37 today. I like Edey better, especially for us. All Knecht really is is a scorer..can't defend or anything.
Yeah! Edey doesn't really move too well laterally and isn't that quick to recover, But at the same time, his immense size and productivity in the paint would absolutely require opposing defenses to collapse more under the sheer gravity that he'd create. And that can only bode well for a roster with elite shooters and perimeter oriented finesse players. He's basically a jumbo version of Nurkic, only Nurkic is more polished as a passer and floor spacer. But there are reports of Edey working diligently on those weak areas of his game already such as his overall conditioning, mobility, and of course some 3PT shooting for floor spacing purposs.
I will say though that the key for any team drafting Edey to allow him to be super impactful would be to add a long, quick, athletic but also very skilled two way 4/5 compliment like some of those mentioned from my power forward list. So that he can initially focus on just using his massive size to dominate the paint and create open looks for our shooters as defenses collapse into double and possibly triple teams trying to contain him. And that long, athletic, mobile skilled two way 4/5 can help by roaming the paint in those instances wherein he might get drawn out strategically and can't recover quickly. That 4/5 could roam and recover to help him anchor our defense so our defenders can extend out furthwr to contest with harder closeouts on threes.
But also not worry as much if opposing scorers get past with two dominant bigs in our 2nd line recovery defense! Prospects that we've already somewhat discussed as 4/5 two way 4s' with rim protection and two way versatility:
DaRon Holmes, Ulriche Comche, Drew Pember, Zonimir Ivisic, Amari Williams, Johni Broome, Grant Nelson, Quinten Post maybe even Damion Collins perhaps? Any of those 4/5s would offer two way versatility and strong defensive attributes to help play off of Edey and roam defensively, and also not be a net negative on offense. Especially, Pember, Ivisic, Nelson, Post and Holmes, and Broome.