Plus/Minus Wolf vs Olander

[Palatine]

I just don't understand why we're clamoring for Olander at the 4.

1) Most BE teams play a face-up guy at that position anyway - Henton, Melvin, Behanan, Fair, Pinkston, Porter, JaKarr Sampson - Olander can't guard any of those guys.

2) It's not like we gain an offensive advantage with the two big guys. Olander isn't going to dominate any of those guys in the post and the idea that he's a great, or even good, jump shooter has been proven time and again to be a myth. If anything, we lose the offensive advantage that we sometimes have when the opposing PF can't guard Daniels (see the DePaul game). And we certainly won't have any of the runout dunks that Daniels gets from time to time by being quicker than the other 4's.

3) We won't automatically become a better rebounding team just because we'll have 2 bigger guys in the game at the same time. We had Drummond and Oriakhi last year and were a lousy rebounding team. We had a 6'5'' PF in Jeff Adrien, yet he got every rebound.

No one is clamoring. The idea is to try it when we're getting killed on the boards.

Olander is a face up guy. So you're saying he's perfect for the four.

Size matters. It's basically why Wolf succeeds. It's not about "dominating" it's about eating up space.

Do you get worse with two little guys in the middle? Of course, you do. As I said, eating up space matters.

 

[BigErnMcCracken]

No one is clamoring. The idea is to try it when we're getting killed on the boards.

Olander is a face up guy. So you're saying he's perfect for the four.

Size matters. It's basically why Wolf succeeds. It's not about "dominating" it's about eating up space.

Do you get worse with two little guys in the middle? Of course, you do. As I said, eating up space matters.

He's a face-up guy by default. He's not very good on the block, so he must be a face-up guy. But you put him at the 4 and he's dead in the water trying to defend a kid like Melvin or Pinkston.

 

[HuskyBballFan]

Olander is a face up guy. So you're saying he's perfect for the four.

Size matters. It's basically why Wolf succeeds. It's not about "dominating" it's about eating up space.

Do you get worse with two little guys in the middle? Of course, you do. As I said, eating up space matters.

Olander is a face-up guy with zero athleticism. Do you really not see the difference between TO and the other guys I mentioned?