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Message: [QUOTE="champs99and04, post: 2759493, member: 488"] See, I hear you on that, and your other replies on the topic are well conceived, but I do think there is something to be said for the zigzag effect. The league has been 3 and D'd to death. I think the excruciating Rockets-Warriors series signaled the glass ceiling on that. I'm not saying the league is ever going to return to where it was as recently as ten years ago, but I'm willing to buy stock in post-oriented players who have become undervalued in the analytics age. That doesn't mean you want Anthony Davis and Demarcus Cousins on the same team, but the most important skill is still putting the ball in the hole. There are only so many Curry's and Harden's, guys who can dance along the three point line until some room opens up. They may be the rare players that can make the math work with stepback threes versus easier twos. Everyone else, even teams like Boston, is going to eventually get to a game where they have to exchange two pointer for two pointer, at least for long enough to open up the three. It's a fair point that post-ups are lower value these days because of the contact allowed and the amount of time it takes to set up. That's what makes the Embiid's and Simmons' of the world so valuable - guys who can take the ball from the three point line and post within seconds. I'm not sure Ayton is going to get there, but I think if you're Phoenix you have to bet on him controlling games for 46 minutes and then letting Booker take over down the stretch. [/QUOTE]

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