If he stays healthy... McGee has only played 28 games in the last 2 years. And that's despite not playing more than 20mpg since he left Washington.
That's the issue. He does 3 things that ourt team could use: swat, board, and finish. He's just never healthy.
He also makes highlights on Shaqtin a Fool. That shouldn't be immediately discounted as having no value to the fans. Here's an imitation by our favorite dude this Summer
Randle definitely has the eye opening offensive potential, but where I see him being way behind Black is rebounding. Randle was right on par with Nance in rebounding stats despite Nance playing SF. Black was by far the best rebounder on our SL team. With Hibbert being a weak rebounder and Kobe not having his usual rebounding advantage with the switch to SF, a "garbage man" like Black who can go out there and lead the team in Rebounds would IMO help us more than Randle.
Yeah I just don't agree. We're going to need the most talented people to play the most minutes and Randle is by far more talented than Black. Not even close. When Julius focuses, he's a better rebounder than Tarik is too. Julius was too focused on trying to impose his will in Summer League, but it wasn't too long ago he set records for double-doubles in the NCAA as a freshman. He's a good rebounder, he just needs to focus. Getting him big minutes and a starting role is a good way to give him confidence and get his focus on the right things. Tarik is great as a garbage man, but garbage men are best coming off the bench. He's good for 20 minutes a night in a reserve role, great even. Randle and HIbbert should still be undoubtedly the day one starters. Randle with a bit of a leash since we've got Bass behind him. HIbbert has never played 30 minutes a game in his career, so Tarik will have plenty of time at the five as an undersized Center we can use for small ball teams.
I just noticed that this 7' dude named Hibbert has never shot 50% from the field in any season. He's been under 45% the past three seasons. Those are guard numbers. Defensive specialists have their place in this league. Glad we have one, but it will be interesting to see how this plays out.
Hibbert is still pretty raw when it comes to his offensive game. The good thing is that he seems to have soft hands and uses his size well, he just needs to work on 1 or 2 moves he can go to using his size. Additionally, he hasn't been put in a situation with a talented point guard or offense that features him on offense. Paul George was more of a scoring guard so they didn't really run much for him in terms of a pick and roll. I feel a lot of his offense came from just Indiana forcing him the ball because he's big and letting him throw up a shot rather than letting him establish good low position so he can get easier shots. Anyways, his focus should be like Jordan Hill's. Let the offense come to him via pick and roll and clean up the offensive boards.
He would not get enough minutes to do too many stupid things, since Tarik also needs to play and Hibbert is pretty much an Iron Man who does not miss games. I'd almost hope for some silly highlights from McGee.
From my gut impressions, not as finely tuned I'm sure as those from others here on LB, Sacre does NOT totally suck. I still remember the pre-season, or was it early season, games where D'antoni started him out of necessity due to other guys being out, with Steve HOF Nash, prior to his own leg/nerve/career ending injury/with prior back issues .... that first season here. Bob is 2 years past that and IMO some level of improvement beyond that skills and effectiveness wise. But back then with decent guard(s) on the perimeter...... he wasn't "bleeping" horrible. Not even "horrible". I mean it's not like Staples' capacity crowd out of frustration is going to start "booing" Rob like they did Kwame back in the pre-Pau trade days.
Sacre most certainly doesn't suck. He's just not that good and not much of an impact player. McGee most certainly is an impact player both good and bad. He'll either make good plays and be the backup rim protector we need, or he'll do something incomprehensibly idiotic and we'll be rolling our eyes thinking "how could you do something that stupid?". I just hope we'd get more good than bad from McGee, so I'm willing to take the risk when the only thing we'd be losing is a 3rd stringer without much potential to improve.
Given the reactions people had when Wes made bad plays I think some guys on here would have heart attacks watching JaVale. I would be ok with the signing but Kobe might literally kill him.
