Which position would you build around?

[ojandpizza]

I feel, actually I have hope that bright young big men like Marc Gasol, Howard, Hibbert, Griffin, Love, Davis, Ibaka, Jordan, and Faried and those coming will be able to flip the league on it's head and maybe under the new commish slowly bring the league back closer to it's glory days.

Doubtful.. It's always good to hope for but outside of Love (who is a PF) and Gasol none of those guys have any type of offensive post game. Nor do any of them have any type of league changing presence.

Exclude Davis since he's a rookie, he could be good.

But those other guys? C'mon.. Faried? A good big man? I love a hustle player just as much as the next guy but nobody in a small forward sized body is ever going to be a big time inside threat.. You would have been better off with Noah or Varejao..

Plus, it's been a LONG time since big men were the focal point of the league. Idk what you consider "glory days" but having a league revolving around big mean is more like 60s-early 70s basketball than late 70s-90s basketball.. Guys like Magic, Jordan, Erving, etc who helped transition the game into what it is now are also the cause of this more athletic, uptempo, finesse play style that is ruining the newer big men generations.

I don't really think there is anything wrong with that, I just don't see the NBA headed back that direction any time soon.

[BearClaw]

Re: Which position would you build around?

Doubtful.. It's always good to hope for but outside of Love (who is a PF) and Gasol none of those guys have any type of offensive post game. Nor do any of them have any type of league changing presence.

Exclude Davis since he's a rookie, he could be good.

But those other guys? C'mon.. Faried? A good big man? I love a hustle player just as much as the next guy but nobody in a small forward sized body is ever going to be a big time inside threat.. You would have been better off with Noah or Varejao..

Plus, it's been a LONG time since big men were the focal point of the league. Idk what you consider "glory days" but having a league revolving around big mean is more like 60s-early 70s basketball than late 70s-90s basketball.. Guys like Magic, Jordan, Erving, etc who helped transition the game into what it is now are also the cause of this more athletic, uptempo, finesse play style that is ruining the newer big men generations.

I don't really think there is anything wrong with that, I just don't see the NBA headed back that direction any time soon.

I said hope and I did mean the relatively broad 20 y Getting closer to them means the physical big man and hustle player will be more valuable. Less fouls should in theory make a better product for the NBA and more money, but stern figured out a way to make that statement not true. So yes it is highly unlike but it doesn't hurt to dream.