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[DufnerFanBoy]

I appreciate everyone’s passion - and the juices were flowing Saturday for sure, but the entire Austin debate is simple:

Mac = lower floor/higher ceiling
Austin = higher floor/lower ceiling

Austin and Bruce aren’t a great fit - neither maximizes the others strengths - but he’s a damn good weapon to have at your disposal

I absolutely want him on the roster. I don’t want to run our offense through him or emphasize him like I think we’ve tried to do the first half of the season. That’s what I think we don’t do with Mac or Ho at the 5, and that’s why I think the offense flows better. But I definitely would like Wiley’s size and physicality as an option to go to.

 

[Fatz Geronimo]

I absolutely want him on the roster. I don’t want to run our offense through him or emphasize him like I think we’ve tried to do the first half of the season. That’s what I think we don’t do with Mac or Ho at the 5, and that’s why I think the offense flows better. But I definitely would like Wiley’s size and physicality as an option to go to.

some people could use this as a criticism of BRUCE - and it may be a valid one - but his style isn’t conducive to a monster, on the block, 5 man

his best teams usually have 1 “big” body who plays limited minutes off the bench and is available to help out in specific matchups... last Saturday would’ve been a perfect chance, so the timing of Austin’s injury couldn’t have been much worse

in an ideal world we’d have a guy slightly bigger than Horace/Mac... someone in the 6’9”, 235 range as the main 5... and then a beefy, 6’9”, 260 lb guy to come in and give us 15 solid minutes of screening the piss out of people, knocking heads, committing 3-4 hard fouls, and generally keeping everyone on the other squad on edge the entire time he’s out there

think

Austin is overqualified for that role... and BRUCE has tried to use him as best as possible... but it’s an oil/water fit

 

[BlueWorldOrder74]

I totally forgot to come back over here and talk shit. My bad. Good game though. Good luck the rest of the way.