The Jazz need to get a starting stretch 5.

[sojodave]

I feel your Adreian Payne. I think he is the top stretch 4 in the draft. #Payne@23.

 

[Beantown]

It's so funny, nowadays all basketball fans and coaches/experts wanna talk about is stretching the floor with a big. I understand the analytics and thought process behind it but it's all about the players ability to ball and coaches ability to play a system to your players strength.

Neither team of Indiana, Chicago, Washington, San Antonio, LAC, Houston, Portland, GSW and Memphis have a "stretch-big" in their starting lineup and all of these teams made the POs and are good teams. You don't necessarily need a big that has range beyond the three point line, you need players who have skills and know the game and coaches who know how to game plan.

But those teams bigs can hit an outside jumpshot consistently, which IS stretching the floor. Except for probably Houston. But why do you think Howard's most dominant years are when he played alongside Ryan Anderson?