Should Kaman play a bigger role in the series? (1 Viewer)

[Draco]

Kaman would be our best big on offense. The problem is defensively. He's way to slow to guard Jordan. DeAndre will be running around him for easy alley oops all game. He would be even worse on Griffin. He'd be good against the Clippers backups.

If Stotts wants to play him 15-20 minutes to help our second unit offense; fine. If Stotts wants to play some of the young guys instead; I'll be excited to see what happens there. CJ had a horrible first two games last year against Memphis then blew up in the last few games. Maybe a young guy will surprise us once he gets comfortable with regular minutes in this series. It would be more helpful to see a young player who can help us in future years playoffs. Whatever; either way I'm fine with Kaman playing some or not at all.

Kaman isn't some magical solution that will win us this series. Some fans are acting as if he's an average starting center. Kaman is 6 years past his prime and even then had flaws.

 

[ripcityboy]

Sure. Give him 15 minute against Jordan. Maybe they'll get in a fight and turn the series around!

 

[jlprk]

The greatness of Kaman lies in his incontrovertible talents as a coach on the bench. While he is sometimes on his phone, possibly taking advice from Kim Hughes, he is a barking dog when it comes to instilling an unprecedented amount of team spirit in the young players.

 

[BonesJones]

Kaman never needed to be developed - he just needed court time for conditioning. I was SHOCKED that we didn't start conditioning him 3-4 weeks before the POs started. When Meyers went down, and with how awful Noah is, it should have been obvious that we'd need Kaman in the Playoffs. Even at his age he's still our best big.

Definitely not our best big...

 

[blue9]

Definitely not our best big...

Then who is? And why/how?

 

[BonesJones]

Then who is? And why/how?

Davis? Because common sense lol

 

[blue9]

Davis? Because common sense lol

Defensively? Yes. Offensively? Not even close. And because Kaman is at least semi-capable of playing defense, while Ed really isn't capable of anything other than dunking, Kaman comes out ahead. Also, while I like Ed a lot, there are too many times he has little or no impact on the game.

 

[BonesJones]

Defensively? Yes. Offensively? Not even close. And because Kaman is at least semi-capable of playing defense, while Ed really isn't capable of anything other than dunking, Kaman comes out ahead. Also, while I like Ed a lot, there are too many times he has little or no impact on the game.

Davis isn't even a bad offensive player. Kaman is slightly better offensively while falling far behind on every other aspect of the game.

 

[Orion Bailey]

Davis isn't even a bad offensive player. Kaman is slightly better offensively while falling far behind on every other aspect of the game.

While I agree Davis is our best overall big at the moment. Davis has zero outside shot. none. Kaman is solid from 12-15 and would shoot the lights out of Kaman.
Kaman also has more meat and can pound more down low compared to Davis.

Davis is still our best big though because of speed alone I think. He can keep up. Or should be able to keep up.

 

[blue9]

Davis isn't even a bad offensive player. Kaman is slightly better offensively while falling far behind on every other aspect of the game.

Okay. [terminate discussion]