All American Nice Guyz
Al Horford, LaMarcus Alridge, Rudy Gay, Tony Allen, Kyle Lowry
Marshon Brooks, Nick Collison, Carlos Delfino, Devin Harris
Dionne Waitors, Dahntay Jones, Chris Wilcox, Al Farouq Aminu
Hopefully I can find time to answer any questions but I'm beyond swamped this week and on top of that will be in and out of a few meetings/trainings today. Not sure about KC, but I know he was working a decent amount.
I bolded the main points for the skimmers out there. SHOUT OUT TO ALL MY SKIMMAZ!
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Quite simply, I don't think Who can take the two bigs. They'll both be playing 40 minutes and I don't believe he has the personnel.
Asik is allegedly a strong defender, but he's yet to play consistent minutes. He's averaged 12 and 14 minutes a game in his NBA career (5 fouls per 36).
Realistically, you're hoping to get thirty minutes out of him. So in addition to the fact that even
if Asik does a great job defensively he'll still end up being outscored by about 10 points by his matchup, for ten minutes a game you'll be asking either Fat Boris Diaw or an undersized AK47 to defend either Al Horford or LMA. That's a task they can not execute.
While both KC and I are full time members of the
Zach Randolph fan club, his
foot speed will be an enormous issue against the much quicker Horford and LMA -
he can't afford to sag, because they're both excellent mid range shooters, but he can't stay too close because he can't keep up. So, on his best day - you're really hoping that he scores as much as he gives up.
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On the other side of things, Who's superstar, Deron Williams will be presented with a lot of troubles -
Kyle Lowry and Tony Allen are elite defenders that'll be more than happy to continuously frustrate D-Will. Pressure, and quick hands that can be afforded with two athletic trees to get in his way on drives.
I'm not sure that in the NBA you can silence a superstar, he's going to get his.
But I think Lowry and TA are more than capable of holding D-Will to his scoring averages, while increasing his turnovers. And while D-Will is a good point guard, he's displayed that he's not capable of doing it by himself over the past two seasons.
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On the wings, I fully expect Rudy Gay to continuously annihilate Gallinari on both ends of the court. I like Hayward as a role player, especially on this team but it's not like he's a game breaker
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I got this series 4-1, All American Nice Guyz