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The Big Ken Lofton Watch Thread

Handlogten's Heros said:
Yes but dropping a few would help with other stuff and he’d still have plenty of girth. Long term carrying that extra isn’t great on the lower body. The ideal balance is probably 15-30 lbs of bad weight not necessarily 40-50 lbs. over an offseason he could comfortably drop 15 lbs without hurting his functional strength/girth advantage. It will benefit him more on defense than offense as well as with just general conditioning and longevity.
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workouts like this in the off season?
 
We lose 17 straight and Lofton finally gets his opportunity to play some significant minutes and we win two in a row. Coincidence? I think not. Yeah the Rooks were killing us at first and they’ve finally found a groove but look who was available Friday night on a back to back on the road and look who came in and spearheaded a comeback in the first half against the Clips starters.

I don’t want to read too much into it but I guess I can’t help it. This team needed a dog in the worst way and we found one finally in Lofton. Nobody scares this kid in any way, shape or form, not even PJ Tucker (remember how bad Gobert got the shakes against Tucker?).

I live in absolute fear that we hoarde and use every pick and have no room on the roster for Lofton, Dunn, Juzang and Bazley. Lucky to have them and the draft won’t do us any better. We need to consolidate our picks and trade up for Sarr.
 
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Let's play out a short thought-experiment:

initial assumption: the team is committing to playing Lauri, Hendricks, and Keyonte
initial conclusion: there's a lack of playmaking in that trio, so the other two players need to have those chops.

Let me just jump to my point here: we need a big that can perform at a high-level in the short roll. The short roll in today's NBA is not primarily about scoring—though you do need to have that threat, and apply that pressure—it's more about how the player executes a quick read and passes out.

I don't trust Kessler to do this at a high-level right now. I'm sure he's working like hell on it. And so,... I see a path for Lofton here. I can imagine a Lauri-Hendricks-Lofton trio working on offense and defense. The defensive philosophy should borrow heavily from what Denver is doing with Jokic (Lofton is Jokic here); they bring him up to the level of the screen and do a lot of switching. Lauri and Hendricks are backline defenders that can protect the rim. The fit on offense is pretty obvious.

That leaves a need for additional playmaking guard. Keyonte can do plenty, but there needs to be another guy out there. I understand the desire to draft Castle, but I'm not a draft guy anymore (haven't been for years, tbh).
 
Release the Kraken said:
We lose 17 straight and Lofton finally gets his opportunity to play some significant minutes and we win two in a row. Coincidence? I think not. Yeah the Rooks were killing us at first and they’ve finally found a groove but look who was available Friday night on a back to back on the road and look who came in and spearheaded a comeback in the first half against the Clips starters.

I don’t want to read too much into it but I guess I can’t help it. This team needed a dog in the worst way and we found one finally in Lofton. Nobody scares this kid in any way, shape or form, not even PJ Tucker (remember how bad Gobert got the shakes against Tucker?).

I live in absolute fear that we hoarde and use every pick and have no room on the roster for Lofton, Dunn, Juzang and Bazley. Lucky to have them and the draft won’t do us any better. We need to consolidate our picks and trade up for Sarr.
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Yeah, it is a coincidence lmfao. The two wins came against teams without an incentive to win. Crazy how the moment the Jazz stopped playing motivated teams they looked decent.
 
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