Does this team miss Perkins?

[Fafnir]

Perkins has not been giving the Thunder much this season. His PER for/against is comparable to to O'Neal's, and his net +/- is much worse than O'Neal's.

I think if he were on this Celtics team he might be giving us 20-25 minutes a game, but at a performance level similar to what JO does. The upgrade would be at backup center, where JO would be better than Stiemsma, but even there I don't see the difference as being all that dramatic.

Having Perkins might be worth 3-5 extra wins over the course of the year.

The difference would be greater if JO were to get hurt, obviously. I think that is the real risk with our team right now, in terms of missing Perkins.
 

Perkins and Ibaka have both been disappointing so far this season.

[Kane3387]

Perkins has not been giving the Thunder much this season. His PER for/against is comparable to to O'Neal's, and his net +/- is much worse than O'Neal's.

I think if he were on this Celtics team he might be giving us 20-25 minutes a game, but at a performance level similar to what JO does. The upgrade would be at backup center, where JO would be better than Stiemsma, but even there I don't see the difference as being all that dramatic.

Having Perkins might be worth 3-5 extra wins over the course of the year.

The difference would be greater if JO were to get hurt, obviously. I think that is the real risk with our team right now, in terms of missing Perkins.
 

Perkins and Ibaka have both been disappointing so far this season.

They don't compliment each other that well because of their offensive deficiencies. OKC knows that they need Ibaka's game to evolve more on the offensive end if they want to truly contend for a title. Thus internally they aren't going forward with the mindset that this is a championship or bust season.