If the Pacers frontcourt was that good, how come they didn't beat a Miami team that had no one in frontcourt even remotely good compared to the Pacers' frontcourt? Hibbert and David West should have been able to rip apart Ronny Turiaf and Joel Anthony, no?
They should have been able to, yes. They didn't. Don't really have an answer.
OKC has only defensive stalwarts. I like Collison and even Mohammad as their back-ups but offensively no one in that frontcourt scares me. Besides, don't you remember watching Perkins getting outplayed by Ilgauskas in 2008 because he couldn't cover perimeter bigs to save his life and Ilgauskas was constantly getting wide open shots?
Defensively is where they're good, I agree. That's why I threw them up there.
Nene and Okafor have yet to play a game together. Let's wait and see how good they are. I like those two, but they are above average players, not stars. Oh and Blatche is as good as gone.
Blatche is a net negative anyways. I put the Wiz up there because we don't have anyone who can check Nene on the roster. Not that Nene is the type of guy who can take over a game or anything, or that I think the Wiz could beat us in a regular season series. Just that the size there should be a hurdle.
Chandler and Stoudemire do not work well together in the frontcourt, even if they are two of the best on completely opposite sides of the court. Camby was a good addition but there's no telling whether or not he won't get injured considering his history.
Yeah, they didn't seem to work well together, but there was an awful lot of..stuff..going on with that Knicks team. Aside from maybe the Nets and on the outside the Rockets, there isn't a team out there who has more to gain and more to lose by being mediocre again. I like STAT, hope he gets healthy and figures it out. If he does, there isn't a whole lot we can do about it.
The Jazz have a good trio of Jefferson, Favors, and Millsap, but the only one you could argue that is elite is Jefferson. Millsap is very finesse and I'd like to have a guy like him on the Cs (Sullinger?). Favors is still raw.
Millsap was an all-star caliber player for most of last season, and we don't have a guy on the roster who is a favorable matchup with Jefferson. Again though, the Jazz aren't a real threat to us, just their bigs could give us fits from time to time.
The Spurs have a great frontcourt primarily because they have Tim Duncan. Splitter and Diaw work well with Duncan, but the Thunder showed the world they could be stopped.
Yeah, for sure. That's all true but again, it doesn't mean our bigs get the better matchup there.
All the teams you mentioned have good size. I'm not disagreeing with that, but the only two frontcourts I would take over KG and Bass are Gasol/Bynum and other Gasol/Z-Bo. All the other ones aren't as good. It's only the Lakers and the Grizzlies that make me think, "Oh crap, their size can kill us!"
BTW you forgot the Clippers.
Clippers I actually don't fear until Griffin takes a big step forward with his game.
But like I said in my post, I considered those teams that could 'give us trouble'.
As far as 'switching frontcourts', I guess the Lakers, and maybe a handful of other teams, but really I like our frontcourt. Unless its Dwight Howard coming back, I'm not really pumped about it.
