And guess what, the league is trending towards those guys too (Embiid, KAT, Wemby, Jokic, etc.), you're gonna need to beef it up more and add size to combat it/neutralize it. Relying on smallball to cover those guys like the C's did in Game 7 vs PHI is tough.
I was reading some quotes from unnamed league executives a few days ago and they were talking about this. They were not talking about bigs in general in the league but solely in terms of Wemby. Saying that everyone is looking for ways to add size to try and combat Wemby. That everyone is terrified of him.
A bit like with Shaq. Everyone need 3 centers who were roughly 7 feet and 250+lbs to try and combat him.
Now teams are loading up in size to deal with Wemby. They won't need as much beef as they did with Shaq but height and length. Bigger forwards. Bigger guards. More switchability. Quality defensive centers. That seems to be the idea.
I know he wasn't there for like 70% of the postseason run in 2024, but you saw how impactful Porzingis was when he was out there that year and in the Finals games. In fact a lot of the recent championship teams with the exception of those Warriors teams have a superstar big guy or a nice, capable duo (Chet-Hartenstein, Ibaka-Gasol, KP-Horford). You do need a good frontcourt more often than not. Even the Cavaliers in the 2010s with Lebron had Thompson and Kevin Love, but even Lebron with his size and gifts is basically a center too lol, or built like it.
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