mayorhoiberg wrote:Devilzsidewalk wrote:thing about Gomes is he can use his quickness advantage at PF, but not his size (girth) advantage at SF. He's not very physical. So what you get is an offensive advantage/defensive disadvantage when he's at PF because he can use his quicks on offense, but doesn't have enough physicality on defense, then at SF he's got enough quicks to defend his man ok at SF, but doesn't have enough to do a lot of damage on offense or enough physicality to punish his man.
So you're stuck with either spot up shooter/passable defender playing SF or more versatile offensive player/bad defender at PF.
Maybe he just needs to go full-bore SF mode and lose 20 more lbs and hopefully get quick enough to beat SFs off the dribble and maybe it will bring him closer to a lockdown defender. Probably too much to ask.
This is pretty much spot-on. Gomes' perimeter defense is tops on our team. His offensive arsenal is shifting more towards that of a SF, and if he can start to take guys off the dribble, he'll be dangerous. 20ppg on a bad team isn't OUTSTANDING, but Gomes' play with Al out is impressive. I've never thought this before, but between the way he's been canning 3's, his excellent defense on volume scorers like Kobe (has anyone else noticed how Gomes has just LOCKED him down the last few times we've played the Lakers?), and his emergence with Big Al out, I'm feeling comfortable with Gomes as a starting 3 if he can keep this up.
yea I think all his strengths and weaknesses point to him being a SF these days; good spot up shooter, solid perimeter defender, surprisingly awesome in the open court, he's pretty much automatic finishing on a break. But for his weight, he's not very effective backing guys down or rebounding.
In other words, it seems he's carrying unnecessary weight, it doesn't really help his game being 240+. I'm not a body composition expert, but I would think if it was possible for him to get down another 10 or 20 lbs, that he could be lighter on his feet and that would accentuate his strengths a lot more.