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[QUOTE="Niastri, post: 4667892, member: 722"]
And even Embiid often starts with the ball on the perimeter. There isn't a single player in the NBA who plays like Kareem Abdul Jabbar or Shaquille O'Neal right now. But Robert Williams playing with Harford was essential in the Celtics knocking the Sixers out in game 7. What Celtics fans are calling the "two bigs" lineup.

In college, having a very tall athletic rim defender is more valuable, because the skill level of the offensive players is lower.  Switching a big slow guy onto a forward or a guard isn't as catastrophic in college.

I like the way we've handled the center position in the past... One developed starter, one mostly developed backup and one project a year or two away from contributing. Getting a center recruit every year isn't a problem, it's getting a center recruit every year and having them not develop that creates problems.

Compounding the problem is not getting our primary targets year after year. Look at the center recruits we have pursued and failed to recruit, and compare them to the guys we got... It's a world of difference.  We'd be perfectly happy with Clingan as a starter with Etienne as his backup, with Papa Kante coming in as their depth in the fall. But we didn't get any of those guys to commit.

Well, we'll see how the plan and the results develop with Red as the coach over the next few years.
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