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Whiteside Is Going to Be Good

Forrest can't be a situational defender if there's no situation where he can be on the court. His offense is too bad to be a useful player on this team. The only promising part of his offensive game requires that he has the ball the entire time. That's just not going to happen on this team. He's not the type of player who can blend in as an off player by spacing the floor or being a pseudo roll man like Payton or Bruce Brown.

Oni (as a proven option) and Butler (for his potential) are better plays.
 
KqWIN said:
Forrest can't be a situational defender if there's no situation where he can be on the court. His offense is too bad to be a useful player on this team. The only promising part of his offensive game requires that he has the ball the entire time. That's just not going to happen on this team. He's not the type of player who can blend in as an off player by spacing the floor or being a pseudo roll man like Payton or Bruce Brown.

Oni (as a proven option) and Butler (for his potential) are better plays.
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If Forrest decides to shoot some of the stuff he gets in the paint I think he can be a better option than Oni. Although maybe Oni can survive with the new rules. He needs to drive with the intention of scoring or passing. He drives to nowhere and kicks it out without drawing much attention. If he can’t take advantage of the space in the paint we’d be better off with other options.
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
If Forrest decides to shoot some of the stuff he gets in the paint I think he can be a better option than Oni. Although maybe Oni can survive with the new rules. He needs to drive with the intention of scoring or passing. He drives to nowhere and kicks it out without drawing much attention. If he can’t take advantage of the space in the paint we’d be better off with other options.
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Eh...I really don't want Forrest running a lot of offense, even if it gets to his floater which is his best shot. The way I see it, when Forrest is in the game you are basically at his mercy on offense. You either give him the ball, or you give the ball to much better players and pray that the other team doesn't have a scouting report on him. I'll take the offense running through Joe/Conley and Clarkson with Oni in the corner and occasionally puking himself when he has to dribble. Forrest is better defensively, but not enough to overcome his offense. Oni's track record is very good in this role, if you're going to overlook that at least do it for someone with potential like Butler

I don't see much potential with Forrest. He needs to make such a large on offense to playable. If we applied the same optimism to Oni he'd be a 20 MPG player for every team in the league.
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
Here is my bold prediction for the year...

Locke has been really talking this up. I think Whiteside is going to end up being really good for us. So good in fact I think some morons will say we should play Whiteside over Rudy... I feel like its almost a certainty and may even be able to predict the posters that will do it.

Anyway... the system is set up for someone that can do some Rudy stuff... Whiteside is not Rudy... but he can do some Rudy stuff. In limited minutes he will look good and put up numbers. We likely won't be anywhere near as good on defense as he's much more limited than Rudy there but he will cover the rim up and we will be better than we were with Favs.

I did not expect to be a Whiteside Guy.... but here I am. I hope yall are ready for the multiple threads about how we should start Whiteside and how are we going to clear space to retain him in the offseason.
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It happened.
 
I have been very happy with Whiteside lately. Same with Doka. Whiteside still gets the nod over Doka because he is a rebounding machine something Doka has to improve on.
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
When he tries he has been good.

Maybe the concussion and covid stuff did really effect him tho.

Hes also playing for his job now that Udoka is showing some ability.
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This is spot on. He needed Doke to be the cattle prod and I think the concussion was not good. The games right after he did some weird things… like even weirder than normal.

He’s back to having fun and talking ****.
 
slc said:
Three headed monster of Gobert, Hassan, Udoka may make teams think against a five out lineup
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We didn't need that to counter a 5 out lineup. We needed 1.5 things. The 0.5 is better perimeter defense. The 1 thing is Quin being willing to go at the rim and give the ball to Gobert, et al when they are being covered by a smaller defender. 5 out lineups should be a dunk-fest until they are forced to bring in their big players again. But Quin is having none of that. That isn't the plan. Can't deviate from the plan just because we, you know, have an excellent opportunity to exploit a huge mismatch and get the highest-percentage shot in basketball over and over again.
 
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