re: Would you trade the #6 pick for Okafor?

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You can't play a big who is unable to defend on the perimeter late in games. You just can't, hence why nobody does it. And again, show me a contender with two high usage bigs in the last twenty years. It just doesn't happen

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For starters, I agree with you here.
but,
Gasol/Bynum
Wallace/Wallace
Chandler/Dirk
Shaq/Horry/Grant
Divac/Webber (champions if they beat the Lakers)
Sabonis/Rasheed/Brian Grant/Jermaine O'neal (Champions if they beat the Lakers)
Gasol/ZBo (have never had guards worth a shite)

It's not the perimeter defense that takes the bigs off the court as much as it's the poor free throw shooting usually. There hasn't been a Steph Curry in the past that shoots that high a percentage from 3 that seems to make it every single time a big switches on him with some moon ball quick release that barely touches the net as it goes in. The 3 he hit last night on Durant at the end of the game is just unbelievable. If Kobe Bryant was trying to get a 3 off in the circumstance he is likely blocked or airballs it if he gets it off, and he is probably the next best at getting his own 3 point shot off without a pick.