re: who once said they'd trade Biyombo for Ryno?

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Predict his numbers for next year

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$2,940,630

Reggie Evans was never had the instincts on defense that Biyombo has.

I mean is Dwight Howard Reggie Evans on steroids? Just a more athletic and bigger version.

I'm not saying he's a stud but he's better than Reggie Evans 2.0. He's also behind Jonas which has something to do with his minutes. He's not a "difference maker" but he has potential to still be something. It takes most big men 3-4 years to develop in the NBA.

Biyombo isn't some great center. He's barely a starting center in the NBA, if even that.

But we don't need some all-nba center on this team, b/c we already have an all-nba center on our team.
What we need is a cheap guy that will hustle, grab boards, protect the rim, and finish for 15-20 minutes a game. 8 and 8 is a decent game if you ask me. Problem is 8 and 8 isn't decent when you make $11 million a year, you don't hustle, you don't protect the rim, and you finish at a historically low rate.

Biyombo was one of the guys I was saying to get last year, but for whatever reason financially we couldn't aquire his <$3M contract, and it was better to tie ourselves to Asik for $11 million a year for 4 years, b/c that was better than Ajinca and nothing, which is what we had this year.

I don't know how a year of Withey couldn't have been a better option than long term Asik.

From an article in January:

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The Pelicans faded this possibility in letting Withey go, and they quickly look to be on the losing side of that proposition. Withey has stepped admirably into a void filled by injuries to Rudy Gobert and Derrick Favors, posting a career-best 19 PER in by far the largest role he’s been asked to play. He’s shooting nearly 56 percent from the field and blocking over three shots per-36-minutes on the floor, a badly needed continuation of the rim protection provided by Gobert and Favors that serves as the foundation of Utah’s defense. “It just took a chance for me to get on the floor,” Withey told Basketball Insiders. “Even in New Orleans, whenever I had a chance to play, I was able to put up decent numbers. So it was just a matter of being on the floor.”

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part from his raw numbers, which are impressive on their own, Withey’s largest impact has been as a rim protector in Gobert’s absence. He’s allowing a hair under 40 percent while contesting opponent shots at the rim, per SportVU data, one of just three qualified players in the league doing so – the others are Gobert himself and Serge Ibaka. Per more advanced figures from Nylon Calculus, Withey is “saving” the fourth-most points in the NBA for his team on a per-minute basis when factoring in positional context – he prevents an estimated 7.7 points at the rim per-36 compared to the league average center.

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“He’s always been a shot blocker,” Snyder said. “We don’t need him to be a low-post offensive scorer, but if he can finish the way he has and make free throws, that’s the main thing.”

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“In New Orleans, it was a tough place for me, just because the coach [Monty Williams], he didn’t really give me a shot, you know what I mean? Even if I was playing, if I screwed up one time or anything like that, he would just take me right out. Here, Coach [Snyder], he’ll come to you… it’s just a different type of coaching. More player-friendly, for sure.”

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So this isn't an Asik Sucks thread?

That just goes without saying at this point.

No need to waste bandwidth on something everyone already knows.

Why don't you think he plays more?

let me add, bumping this thread as some sort of a "gotcha" is stupid

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What I want to know is.. How do we land DeRozan.

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By becoming Laker fans.