Yet he was only 94th in the league in 3pt attempts last year (4th on the Knicks).

Kind of a stupid offense that doesn’t utilize a > 40% 3 ball shooter more, eh? You aren’t arguing he didn’t spend more time behind the arc on offense than any other center other than maybe Jokic? Not a lot of offensive boards to be had from behind the arc when he is seldom used as a roller.

KAT is a defensive rebounding specialist since he tends to not guard players so much, and Mitch is a beast on the offensive boards

KAT is a defensive rebounding specialist (3rd in the league and 2nd overall) as it is impossible for him to put up commensurate numbers on the offensive glass (11th) because his superskill at hoisting very efficient 3s keeps him >25 feet from the rim at a much greater rate than other bigs on the offensive end.

KAT’s a great rebounder but I don’t think he can provide a high enough floor without Hart or Mitch next to him.

Forgetting Beasley for a second, that’s why I don’t want Deuce to start.

This is the complication I was afraid of going into last year.

That’s why I was screaming for Hart to start at the beginning of the season. I knew KAT would rebound better at C than he did at PF next to Gobert, but OG is a weak rebounder at SF. So it was obvious he’d be “relatively weaker” at PF. OG is a both sides plus player, but that’s a weakness.

KAT is not the kind of guy that’s going to grab 14-15 boards per 36 even on a weak rebounding team. He’s going to get his 10 plus a little more. So I thought we needed Hart for rebounding (and the playmaking would also help).

As it was, KAT did about as well as we could have hoped, but Hart’s spacing issue became such a problem eventually (and the Deuce lineups looked so good) you had to at least wonder whether the spacing and POA defense from Deuce was more valuable than the rebounds. Also, it would not have shocked me if we relieved Bridges of guarding PGs and put him on the wing where he belonged, he might be able to grab an extra rebound like he did earlier in his career.

We have not solved that issue.

Mitch takes care of the defense and boards, but will hurt the spacing for Towns, Brunson and to some extent the others more than Hart.

Hart puts us back where we were which is a starting lineup that was a negative in the playoffs and not so great in the second half of the season.

Deuce starting is a mystery that Thibs would not explore, but has obvious potential rebounding issues.

We haven’t seen enough of the alternative to Hart to know what nets out best. That’s part of why Thibs is no longer here.

The perfect solution is having a legit starting PF that can defend, rebound and at least shoot 3s. He doesn’t have to be an all star caliber scorer. He just has to do what we need. Then you move OG to SF, Bridges to SG and Hart to the bench and everything is peachy.

Finding and getting that player is a problem, but it wasn’t Precious. Maybe Yabu will defend well enough to earn a shot at starting.

Shams Charania: Cleveland Cavaliers guard Max Strus underwent surgery to repair a Jones fracture in his left foot sustained during recent offseason workout and will miss approximately 3 to 4 months.

This will help in our effort to gain the #1 seed.

No. And am concerned about someone who pretty obviously has a gambling addiction. Every bad financial decision he has made that we know of is getting money quickly at stupid cost.