Comments on: Clippers 2021-2022 Season Preview: Moses Brown

By: JCplusULTRA

JCplusULTRA — Mon, 19 Sep 2022 07:24:45 +0000

He averaged a double double for Portland playing 24 minutes. The only reason he’s not playing is China.

By: Oodypkt

Oodypkt — Mon, 19 Sep 2022 06:34:45 +0000

Maybe he’s 15th guy on the roster that can be played sparingly throughout the season or be expended if Moose develop earlier than we expect.
Either way, extremely tall guy who can help Zu get some rest here and there is OK for me to have on the team.
And the guy can catch some lobs and put backs. Our PGs will love throwing it up there for him.

By: Robert Flom

Robert Flom — Mon, 19 Sep 2022 00:24:21 +0000

Brown is young enough to develop, but the stuff he’s worst at (instincts on both ends) is very tough to improve on

By: Robert Flom

Robert Flom — Mon, 19 Sep 2022 00:22:55 +0000

Enes is cooked

By: chogokin

chogokin — Sun, 18 Sep 2022 19:04:02 +0000

Just gonna have to agree to disagree here. Freedom is a solid rebounder and post scorer, but he can’t move his feet defensively and doesn’t block any shots. I’d much rather have Whiteside for the Clips. Hell, I think I’d rather have Boogie (who at this point in his career is a similar type of player as Freedom), since we’ve already seen him play here.

By: JCplusULTRA

JCplusULTRA — Sun, 18 Sep 2022 02:48:21 +0000

That’s only because the anti-China stuff is the only stuff that got coverage.

Freedom can rebound and is overall better than any other C.

By: chogokin

chogokin — Sat, 17 Sep 2022 09:27:55 +0000

Freedom is not hands down better than Whiteside, particularly for our needs (defense/rim protection). He’s an absolute sieve defensively and isn’t even a deterrent at the rim – he can score in bunches though, I’ll give him that.

Plus, although the CCP does deserve a crapton of criticism for their horrible record on human rights, Freedom’s whole anti-China thing always felt like more of a marketing ploy/audition for his inevitable transition to Fox news contributor rather than an expression of any genuine deeply held beliefs.

By: JCplusULTRA

JCplusULTRA — Sat, 17 Sep 2022 06:27:16 +0000

Whiteside is probably still available for the same reason Enes Freedom is still available, bad reputation.

It’d be nice for Balmer to step up and sign Freedom who is the hands down best available center. I doubt the Clippers, Kawhi, or PG have much popularity in China anyway.

By: chogokin

chogokin — Sat, 17 Sep 2022 01:30:45 +0000

Literally the only time I’ve seen Moses Brown play was the Oturu game. Kinda hard to evaluate him based on his performances on a tanking OKC, but he’s still reasonably young, so hopefully he can develop w/ us going forward. Dude has the length to bother shots and throw down lobs, and really, I could see either of Brown or Moose being ok for the 5-10mpg that we’d need to give Zu a break for.

That being said, why is Hassan Whiteside still available, and why are we (and every other team w/ a need at backup C) seemingly not interested?

By: chogokin

chogokin — Sat, 17 Sep 2022 01:25:50 +0000

They just re-signed Schroeder, who I actually like for the minimum. Of course, there’s the matter of them having Westbrook, Bev, Nunn, and now Schroeder, but I assume they’re still trying to move Westbrook…