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What is the plan at Center?


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Now that Big Al is off to Indy the Hornets have a huge need for a starting center. Unless the team is comfortable with Zeller (god I hope not) they have to make a move. What do you think the plan is? Throw a ton of money at Dwight and hope coaches can sway him to come play in Charlotte? Is there something we all don't know about the Sacramento trade? Cho has to be up to something. The Hornets need to lock up a starting big man before worrying about a backup Pg or Marvin Williams.

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I think it's Howard time.  He wanted to get traded here last season.   It could blow up for us but could work out.  It may be our only chance honestly and I just think he'll be better in a smaller market like he was down in Orlando. 

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Just now, Zaximus said:

I think it's Howard time.  He wanted to get traded here last season.   It could blow up for us but could work out.  It may be our only chance honestly and I just think he'll be better in a smaller market like he was down in Orlando. 

I second this.

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Contract year for Cody. This is the first year he's going to be training as a full time center as opposed to a stretch four (which he never was going to be in the first place.)

I still think pieces will be moved around to address the center position but Cody was a top five pick, so I'm fine with seeing what he can do full time. Obviously he has limitations, but Dwight isn't the one size fits all solution here.

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1 minute ago, cbarrier90 said:

Contract year for Cody. This is the first year he's going to be training as a full time center as opposed to a stretch four (which he never was going to be in the first place.)

I still think pieces will be moved around to address the center position but Cody was a top five pick, so I'm fine with seeing what he can do full time. Obviously he has limitations, but Dwight isn't the one size fits all solution here.

lol if Cody is our full time center we may as well give up next season.  Dude is soft as tissue and is a backup off the bench at best.

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2 minutes ago, cbarrier90 said:

Contract year for Cody. This is the first year he's going to be training as a full time center as opposed to a stretch four (which he never was going to be in the first place.)

I still think pieces will be moved around to address the center position but Cody was a top five pick, so I'm fine with seeing what he can do full time. Obviously he has limitations, but Dwight isn't the one size fits all solution here.

Howard plays defense and can score with his physicality but he does have his short comings (free throws). Zeller is no center in the NBA and will get bullied in the paint a lot.

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3 minutes ago, Zaximus said:

lol if Cody is our full time center we may as well give up next season.  Dude is soft as tissue and is a backup off the bench at best.

We won 48 games with Al Jefferson starting half the season. How is anything else NOT an improvement?

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2 minutes ago, RoaringRiot said:

I'm really on the fence here. We can't afford Howard if we sign Marvin, right? I would rather have (regular season) Marvin.

No we can't. And even if he renounced him or he signed elsewhere, we'd have about $19 million, give or take. Still may not be enough.

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With MKG back on the court i'm not that worried about losing Marvin. We need a rim protector in the middle. Starting Frank at the 4 with Dwight at the 5 is better than Marvin and Cody imo, or really Marvin and any other Big we could afford after signing Mavin.

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Sadly Hornets fans forgot the Williams in year one of his contract that did nothing for the team because he was content. They also forget how soft Zeller is in the post. Signing Williams will give us 3 true PFs and no real Center outside of Hawes which is scary. Other teams will go off on us in the paint as if we play no defense.

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14 minutes ago, cbarrier90 said:

We won 48 games with Al Jefferson starting half the season. How is anything else NOT an improvement?

Meh, even off bench, he was putting a lot of minutes in.  Zeller has too many 5-10 point games to be a starter, maybe if his defense was good it could balance, but, it's bad.

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