re: Landry vs. Anderson

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I still fear that Anderson, while more of a threat from downtown, gives us one more big w/ no/limited low post game & will be a downgrade defensively.

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Here's your problem, you are overvaluing post play. The league is changing to be much more of a perimeter, pick and roll attack. The day of monsters in the paint has passed for now. Also, Landry kind of sucked on defense. Yeah he bullied Gasoft in the LA series but he's so short he's a bad rebounder and Monty publicly called him out on his defensive effort on more than one occasion.

Anderson = Good Starter
Landry = Good Bench Player

How can you honestly say you'd rather a bench player over a starter? And we're not talking about a pretend bench player 6th man of the year that would start on most teams in the league, we're talking about a player that couldn't start on the 3rd worst team in the league even though the opportunity was given to him in a contract year. If it helps, don't think of Anderson as a big with no post game, think of him more like a better rebounding 07-08 Peja that is young and uninjured.