Trade deadline

[SMC0007]

Originally Posted by EricaLubarsky

I think you?re confusing things.

Is Noel a star/starting-caliber player? No.

Is this team so sad, broken, and desperate for rebounding and bigs that he honestly could start and play 25min? Yes. Yes we are. As sad as that is, he?d be our best center by a mile kind of like when we picked up Sam Dalembert and he was the best of a shitty lot.

The alternative is we pay the Spurs 2025/2027 draft picks for Poeltl and the rest of our trades are Bullock for Reddish which isn?t a strong playoff team and also tapped out until the end of th decade.

Good centers are expensive and everyone has a good one except for us

Maybe i am confusing some things, but Part of my message is that, could Noel get 25mins or starter role here if a sane FO and coach were at the helm? Possibly. Would he get it as it stands now? No. Dwight Pow wouldn't be unseated by Noel.

Also, I wouldn't be expecting any kind of tangible turnaround if he came and did start because I don't thinks he's making much difference.

[Dallas41]

Originally Posted by SMC0007

Maybe i am confusing some things, but Part of my message is that, could Noel get 25mins or starter role here if a sane FO and coach were at the helm? Possibly. Would he get it as it stands now? No. Dwight Pow wouldn't be unseated by Noel.

Also, I wouldn't be expecting any kind of tangible turnaround if he came and did start because I don't think he's making much difference.

Noel is a better rebounder and defender than Powell.

He's more mobile also.

I wouldn't go by the Noel that was here with Rick. He's does a lot of the defensive things Kleber does when Kleber was healthy.

In fact, I'd say you could play him and Wood together and that would solve some of our rim protection issues with a slight boost to rebounding.

I feel the same way about R.Holmes although he's not as good as Noel defensively out in space.