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Originally Posted by mivdo
Dont know much about poetl. Can he play pf? Seems to me to be more a post up guy who can run the floor, not really a stretch four. He was put down as center on the draft program but pf/c when i googled him. I dont know why they would draft a center when they have JV who is still young and coming into his own.
Siakam from what I briefly seen is similar to biyombo. As in aggresive on the boards. Thats about all i can tell.
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That's the million dollar question. Even if not, he could be an excellent backup C behind JV and a valuable asset to trade at some point in the future, (or make JV expendable, who I wouldn't trade except for a borderline superstar). Offensively I could see them working together well; he's a solid passer, he's awesome on the pick-and-roll. He only attempted 1 three in two years at Utah, but apparently he's been making them with good regularity in workouts (I've seen a few videos that show he's got very nice form on his shot). It's on defense where it's going to be hard to say that the two can co-exist together. Raptors think he's got amazing foot-speed for a big, so maybe he can, although that doesn't sound like a very Casey lineup. That said, I do like the fact that the Raptors are potentially zigging to the rest of the NBA's zagging: if you can make the defense work, then the offensive upside two having two elite scoring 7-footers on the court is tremendous.