If this has been said already...my apologies in advance.
This guy will be a back-up to the developing Colton.
Bringing in a guy to help tank is ridiculous when Colton can help with that though I doubt that's the goal. Fab has shown a ceiling. He has hit his head on it in front of Danny a year after Danny saw a kid who needed a lot of work. A year later...the kid still needs a lot of work and we need a back up for our starting young center.
If...IF the role of the 5 is to be setting hard screens, boxing out and giving pause to small people who wanna drive and wrestle with the oppositions 5 then we already got that and with Perk doing not much more than what I just listed we won a title and didn't win one when he was lost for a game 7.
If the offense is some new unseen thing then I have no idea but if they keep it simple (defensive rotations aside...since THAT is the learning curve and would be on the Spanish guys shoulders as much as Coltons)....then this guy is the back-up they imagined Colton would be for Fab but that has been ditched since Fab should back Colton but I think Danny cuts bait in some way with Fab
My bias is totally toward having as much size as possible. I used to love the battles of the centers in the 80's...Ewing, Hakeem, Parrish, Laimbeer, Kareem...
So keep the 7' guys around. Look at that list of what we need a 5 to do: Be 7' tall, mobile, strong, rebound, defend, block. Quite a few thought that Kwame Brown could help us not that long ago...
And if Melo's ceiling is Kwame Brown, then fine. He's worth keeping; it's why there's a D-League. Perk got tons of bench time during his first two seasons, too...fat kid...
And I love Colton Iverson. I'd love to see him as a backup C on our roster in a Danny Fortson role (but better).
But since I think that both Sully and KO are 4s, it's great to have some legit bangers to move things around in the paint and set screens for Rondo to initiate the offense.
This guy plays Center? Sign him up.
And sign up Steimsma to start for us for the next couple of seasons, too. Backed up by Colton/NewGuy. Melo third string/Maine.
And keep KO at PF, and Sully, too.
Figure out what to do with Bass & Hump (& Lee).