copule of points here

Posted on: May 15, 2020 at 15:55:13 CT

1. something like that, not exactly like that.
2. If Kim English can play the 4 in a faster tempo game, so can Peeler. I list Peeler as the 3, which is where he'd spent most of his time and just as an option within a lot of questions at the 4. I put him that way because the 2 and the 3 in college basketball have become the same position. The 3 is not longer a forward in any shape of form, it is an off guard. And the 4 has become closer to what the 3 used to be than anything like the post player that is was in the past.

I actually hate using the 1-2-3-4-5 terms anymore, but feel compelled to do so in certain conversations because a lot of people just don't get it.
1-2-3-4-5 has not been a legitimate lineup description in college basketball for at least 25 years. The two most viable lineup descriptions today are:
P-W-W-F-C
or
P-W-W-F-F

And sometimes it is P-W-W-W-F/C

That starting lineup from 1989 is absolutely a
P-W-F-F-C lineup and that just does not exist today.

I have absolutely nothing against Gary Leonard. Met him once and he was super nice and humble. But, the odds of him being drafted at all today are pretty low. Guys like Kareem and Hakeem would absolutely translate to today's game. But it would be much harder for guys like Parrish, Walton, Laimbeer, maybe even McHale to transition and Leonard was not even a poor man's version of those guys.