Hendricks and Filipowski

[SoberasHotRod]

Are you sure about "many"? Lets look at the last two drafts to see what kind of currently or potentially starting centers were drafted and who did they replace.

2023
Wemby - shooting C, replaced Poeltl (non-shooting)
Lively - non-shooting C, replaced Powell (non-shooting)

2024
Sarr - shooting C, replaced Gafford (non-shooting)
Clingan - shooting C, replacing Ayton (non-shooting)
Edey - shooting C, replaced Adams and Biyombo (non-shooting)
Ware - shooting C, replaced Adebayo (non-shooting C who became shooting and was promptly moved to PF)
Missi - non-shooting C, replaced Valanciunas (kinda-sorta shooting at the time)

In total: 6 new shooting centers replaced 6 non-shooting, 2 new non-shooting centers replaced 1 shooting and 1 non-shooting. The trend is pretty clear.

It appears that your standards for calling someone a shooting center is different than mine.

 

[fishonjazz]

Shooting threes is a requirement for all players at 1 through 4 and soon will be a requirement for all centers as well. Wemby drafted in 2024 shoots 3s non-stop (looking at Embiid and Jokic) , all notable centers drafted in 2024 -Edey, Klingan, Sarr, Kel'el War - also shoot 3s. That is why Kessler is so desperate to develop a three-pointer: Walter is afraid that in 5 years he will become a non-shooting dinosaur prime for extinction.

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Edey took 0.8 threes per game. Clingan took 0.7
Fwiw Kessler took 0.6 threes per game.

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[fishonjazz]

It appears that your standards for calling someone a shooting center is different than mine.

Ya at the very least edey and clingan are not shooting centers.


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[rjfan]

Seems clear to me that you have more of a trend of looking for non-shooting centers being able to do at least minimal things in ball-handling and passing rather than specifically requiring them being shooters (and you still need more that they're at worst average in rim protection than they being league average pure catch-and-shooters that have a higher release point)

And that there's a return of twin towers trend, but a trend where now you have both seven footers being decent to high skilled players and decent to ridiculous athletes, instead of a Perkins type starter.

 

[homeytennis]

When will we see Tay Henny back on a basketball court? Summer League? Training camp or later?