re: Memphis will Likely trade for Bojan Bogdanovic

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But the 3rd big is more so for the regular season. Meaning, you can't really have 3 bigs in a smaller playoff rotation.

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That's a good point, and I think Pels have put too much mileage on Nance this regular season. Your right in that traditional bigs are easily schemed against in the playoffs but Nance is a bit undersized for big minutes at the 5. What I mean is that one of the underrated values of Val is that he not only gets boards but he also often prevents paint boards from getting grabbed from the wings because he takes up so much space. Brown, Tatum, and Pritchard killed us in this area yesterday with Val out. This might be attributed to Nance being less than 100% but I see his role as a PF and a small ball 5 (close outs).

I respect everything you said.

Balancing the check book is also a vital part of sustainable success.

Zion is essentially playing in his second season and as long as he’s still walking out championship window is open, he’s that special.

With a slow build or organic in nature. Fiscal responsibility is just as important as the product on the floor.

By all means we’re exactly where we need to be and may be overachieving at a high rate. Just my thoughts but the off-season is when we’ll enter the next phase of team building.

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I hate you all

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AND THATS THE HONEST TRUTH!!!!

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Basically, Vanderbilt is too good to be the 3rd big IMO.

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He would essentially be redundant with Nance, IMO. Doesn’t solve the third big issue because none of them are a third big.

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Bottom line, we will be fine rebounding, on both ends of the court...once things get serious.

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You don’t see me calling for any trades Dink!

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We have at least one player who is basically a scavenger rebounder...and therefore, has inflated numbers.

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This doesn’t go unnoticed and why I wasn’t hitching my wagon with the talking heads when it first came out that “Zion needs to rebound better”

With that being said, I don’t believe in flipping switches. We need to lay the groundwork before things get “serious.”

I understand why the “basketball season” doesn’t start until Xmas but again I don’t believe in flipping switches and I hate digging out of holes.

I don’t have your confidence that “Playoff Focus” will solve the rebounding issues when they go small, but one key ingredient that has been missing is Ingram. His length as a secondary defender and rebounder helps and we haven’t seen it in forever.

Overall, I am very skeptical about messing up team chemistry for a marginal improvement. I will be upset if we give up assets for a shooter who might be a little bit better than Graham.

If we make a move, it needs to significantly improve the team, like the trade last year for CJ and Larry did. Yeah, our tight "family" hurt when it lost Hart and NAW, but everyone understood that it was necessary. That's the only kind of trade I want to see us make -- one that results in a clear and obvious upgrade.

We really do have the deepest team in the league. We are the only team in the NBA with 11 players who have a positive Total RAPTOR score (Celtics are 2nd with 10 positive players). RAPTOR isn't perfect, but a very advanced metric says that we have eleven players giving us above-average play.

RAPTOR says that our biggest weakness is our starting center, which should be obvious to anyone who's watched our team start almost every game in the hole, until we get Larry in the game.

JV is just might be too old and slow to be a championship center. He's a big defensive liability. The problem is that, when we pull him for Larry, we can struggle to get rebounds.

When you have one center who can't defend but who can rebound, and you have another center who can't rebound but who can defend, then it stands to reason that the solution is to get a guy who can do both.

I just think we'll be a solid rebounding team, come playoff time. This year, we are currently averaging 45.2 rebounds per game (6th best) while only giving up 41.9 rebounds per game (4th best).

And we'll get even better, rebounding wise...with Ingram & Zion getting huge minutes and being quite a bit more motivated to get those rebounds.

And hate to say it but...if WG wants more rebounds from Herb...all he has to do...is tell Herb to be more aggressive on the boards...but to be honest I like the way WG has Herb coasting in regards to rebounding...and concentrating on doing other things, rather than pounding the boards. Herb is obviously our most important "get back guy" which is why he is limited to what we call "drive-by rebounding" on the offensive end.

Overall, we'll be in great shape...rebounding wise.

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We just hit the halfway point of the season as the 3 seed. We need to do all we can to start this contending clock this postseason. These windows are usually small, we cannot afford to skip a year.

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Agree with this.