saints91 wrote:
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Most PFs have historically been defenders and rebounders who get most of their points under the basket on putbacks. It's only been fairly recently that PFs have scored more.
Centers have, generally, had more varied offensive games. Ewing, who you mentioned, was mostly a jumpshooter.
Laimbeer and Okur are/were both centers who rarely ventured in the paint on offense.
On defense, Bargnani is better suited to guard centers than PFs. He defends back to the basket post players better than he does guy who play outside the paint. And Bargnani does best on offense when he has slower footer defenders on him who he can drive by and draw them out of the paint. However, this past season, Bargnani was guarded by PFs most of the time because the centers guarded Bosh, so there would be very little difference for Bargnani on offense if Bargnani moved to the four. It's on defense that would be the biggest change and where most of his struggles would occur.
Bargnani is a great 3 point shooter, but only for his size. Overall, he's an above average 3 point shooter.
Bargnani has very good handles for his size, but can do very little with those skills. He's not good enough to take defenders off the dribble and can't change direction well enough to do anything but drive straight to the hoop. He doesn't have the skills to react to a second defender.
Bargnani has fair, at best, inside scoring abilities. He's a below average post player and draws fouls at an incredibly low rate.
Again, you fail to make a good argument for Bargnani being a better PF than center. Realistically, Bargnani has a SFs game, but in the body of a 7 footer. He needs to be paired with a great interior defender, because he's not one himself, but that doesn't necessarily mean a center. A in-his-prime Garnett would have been a perfect compliment to Bargnani. Or Josh Smith, who's an excellent shot blocker.
This is the main problem with Bargnani. His game has such glaring flaws that he needs to be surrounded by specific types of players in order to hide those flaws.
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