Alcoholic wrote:On the Laker roster they got Brian Grant as forward so now I guess the centers are Vlade and that Marcus Donut guy.
He'll swing between PF and C. It'd be stupid, plain stupid to play him at 4 and play Donhuit for about 20 minutes (not saying you're implying that). Marcus is a good shotblocker, but he can't do much else. Grant is "undersized" but seriously, how many centers in the West are all that much bigger (not just height and weight) than Grant? How many are more physical, better hustlers, better at boxing out? Not many. How many pose serious problems on offense with their superior size? Count 'em, 4: Duncan (plays quite a bit of C), Yao, Magloire, and Miller. Miller is an outside threat, so this size differential everyone likes to worry about isn't such a big deal. Grant did an excellent job on Magloire in the playoffs, so that's really only 2 there. A bigger problem will be whoever is backing up Grant at power forward (likely to be an undersized Odom, Walton, Slava, Cook, etc, hopefully Rudy T plays Walton at the 3...), now they're going to struggle against Brand, Amare, Webber 4 times a season.