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♪alt13 said:
Honestly I'd be more interested to see if Hayward can play spot minutes at the 4. Experiment with Exum, Burks, Hood, Hayward, Gobert for short stretches.
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Or favors in that lineup. They could switch the entire floor defensively, and play extremely fast. They would be pretty damn great in transition.
 
Cunning Linguist said:
Yep.

I look at Lyles stature and, with some P3 work, could totally see him playing the 3. He's not slow and if he can improve his latera; quickness some, would have a length advantage on any 3 not named Durant. In short, I think his body lends itself better to the 3 than it does the 4 where he can get bodied down low quite easily. On offense, like others have said, he wouldn't really have any advantage. And that I suppose is one of the biggest things holding us back. Favors lack of floor spacing.
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He can play the 3 on offense but not on defense and I could never see him playing the 3 successfully except in spot minutes and you would have to go Zone. He lacks the lateral quickness. He is kinda a tweener but that's not so much of a knock on a player as it used to be. Some are just plain ball players and not defined by a position.
 
Cunning Linguist said:
That's what I'm hoping. The kid is super young and has some swag to him. If he can legit get quicker on both ends of the court, he could be a sick guard at the 3. Espcially when we have Qi dropping bombs at the 4.
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Lateral quicknbess is one of the things that doesn't really change on a player.. Players can get stronger and develop a jumper but get quicker? Doesn't usually happen unless they were overweight and shredded some pouinds off. In Lyles case he needs to get stronger. Sometimes I question if you even know anything about hoops, Honestly not trying to be mean and all but I am wondering.
 
b_line said:
Or favors in that lineup. They could switch the entire floor defensively, and play extremely fast. They would be pretty damn great in transition.
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For spot minutes yes it would be fun to watch but they would have to rebound as a team. Hayward would get owned on the glass by a lot of 4s. aslong as he boxed his guy out though and the guards and wing rebounded then it could work in small doses
 
Boris said:
Are u not the one who negged me during the season for this? Maybe it was [MENTION=1988]Stoked[/MENTION]
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I can promise you it wasn't me [MENTION=4486]Boris[/MENTION]. I don't neg.

Did it once early in my posting history and decided not to do so again. Any possible neg since then, if there are any, was a mistake and was meant to be a pos rep.
 
You could do this, but making your SF 6'10" instead of 6'8" isn't a big deal, unless your 6'10" player is really special. It's more important that your wings be quick and explosive rather than just big.
 
b_line said:
Or favors in that lineup. They could switch the entire floor defensively, and play extremely fast. They would be pretty damn great in transition.
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The problem with switching Gobert out for favors in that lineup is that once a wing comes out you're probably going to want to replace him with a big and the center, be it Favs or Rudy, is going to have to come out at the same time or soon after. Favors/Lyles lets us keep our foot on the offensive gas pedal more than Gobert/Lyles. I think going 4 wings with Rudy and then bringing in Favs and Lyles may allow us to put the defense on their heels for a longer stretch.
 
Both DL and Quin have stated that Lyles is more likely to play 5 than 3. I don't see it... he doesn't have the lateral quickness to defend most 3s in the league.
 
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