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Originally Posted by buddahfan  Just curious.
How is DD rotation to the weak side capability?
Is he quick enough to play any big who does anything other than plant themselves down low?
How many of those of type of centers are there in the league today?
How is DD run out capability on doubling coverage?
How is his passing capability on offense or when he is on the court are we stuck playing 4 on 5 when we are on offense.? I think we know what that was like with Ben who at least could roll to the hoop for an offensive rebound possibility.
Cut the guy and give us all a break.  |
DD is a far sight better than Mohammed. Since we need depth, it should be DD, if he will sign for us. But we have to play him for that to happen. DD gets over very well to help out, and stands in strong for rebounds. Although not much of an offensive threat, he is certainly not someone who can be ignored. You ignore him for a second and he will be gathering in that offensive rebound. Its not easy keeping him away from under the basket, and once there, you can't dislodge him. He is basically a very tough player, one who can help teach our youngsters how to do it right.
If DD is on the team, then we would have to use him as the backup center, which means Amir would have to see a lot of time at small forward. (or JMAX, or simply a combination of both playing the forward positions as a duo.)
We can start Billups, Rip, Tay, Amir, and Sheed. This leaves the excellent combination of Dale Davis and JMAX off the bench.
The bench would be Stuckey, Afflalo, Mejia, JMAX, Dale Davis.
Dyess would play, but a bit less than last year. On any back to back situations, and the Pistons probably will play about 40 games that are part of back to backs per usual, Dyess will take minutes from Sheed as part of our starting unit. So Sheed will only play about 55 minutes total in each set of back to backs, while Dyess gets about 7 minutes per game that Sheed would otherwise get. In those same 40 games, Dale Davis only plays one of them, so in one of the games, Dyess gets those 14 minutes. Thats 20 games in which Dyess plays 21 minutes in place of Sheed and Dale.
In addition, for 20 games Mejia will sit out, and we change up our rotation as follows:
Billups, Rip, Tay, JMAX, and Sheed start.
Bench is Stuckey, Afflalo, Amir at small forward, Dyess, Davis.
In these games, Dyess and JMAX will split minutes, each getting 24. In sum, Dyess would be getting about 20 DNP's, 20 games with 24 minutes, 20 games with 21 minutes, and 20 games with 7 minutes.