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Message: [QUOTE="CamrnCrz1974, post: 2823996, member: 1052"] I watched Kalani Brown quite a bit last year. She had the ability to hit occasional open shots. But she did not do so consistently enough to make that a potential weapon in the W, nor could she create a mid-range shot off the dribble. And it was also quite clear that Lauren Cox was much more of a midrange and outside threat than Kalani. Griner has not played the four. Griner has never been the four for Phoenix. Griner has added range to her shot (though she had started some of that in her last two seasons with Baylor). She can score over both shoulders, using her hook shot. She can also turnaround and fade away from further away from the basket. She can hit set shots from the elbow. But she is not a power forward, even with all of that development. Wilson proved that she can overpower people in the post with her physique and use of force (she has much greater lower body strength than Griner, as an aside, who can be moved more easily off her base than Wilson). But Wilson is not a power forward. Dawn Staley was a point guard. Yet she has yet to develop any WNBA-level point guard in her entire tenure of coaching. The mere fact that he was a post player does not necessarily make him the best person at player development. Certainly that reason alone is not sufficient (as evidence by my Dawn Staley example). Also, Laimbeer was a center, not a power forward Cambage may not even play in the WNBA next year. Head-to-head this year (four games), Wilson averaged 21.25 ppg, 9 rpg, and 3 apg, while Griner put up 21.75 ppg, 11, rpg, 2.5 apg. Those are remarkably even numbers -- and even more impressive when you consider that Wilson is a rookie, while Griner just finished her 6th WNBA season. The bigger problem for Las Vegas (who lost the season series to Phoenix, 3-1) was that Diana Taurasi averaged 30.75 ppg in those four games (and averaged 3 made threes and 10 made free throws in each of the four games). As for the argument about having someone else with size to go against Cambage or Griner, it does not matter if that player cannot score against Cambage/Griner or stop Cambage/Griner from scoring. In the professional ranks, you draft the best player available at the top and find a way to make it work. I f there is no consensus as the best available player or if there is no transcendental player (and there is not in 2019), then you consider getting assets and value and building for the long term. If Vegas can get Napheesa Collier, plus another first round draft pick, that will be more beneficial to Vegas in the long term. [/QUOTE]

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