Acquiring A Post Scorer

[TheSlipperyWhistle]

Problems with post scoring in the NBA...

1. The double comes too quick, you need a very very athletic mobile big, who makes quick moves.
2. The rules in the league, and the way games are called (flopping) makes it tough to operate in the post.

Problems with post scoring on this Celtics team...

1. Pace and space is working. We lack shooting from the proper positions. We need to upgrade there. dumping the ball down to a post player (unless he is SUPERIOR passer out of the post) slows the ball and defies all logic this team has created. Honestly, ill just take a guy who can rebound, and block shots... If someone could slap Dwight Howard around (brave soul) and just get him to behave and understand that no one is going to run sets for him... he would be ideal as a basketball player.

[IDreamCeltics]

How about just drafting Jakob Poeltl?  Averaged 17 pts 9 rebounds 2 assists 1.6 blks .64 FG% this year in college.  Legit 7 footer, with room to fill out.  Averaged almost 70% from the free throw line.  Outplayed Okafor in a head to head matchup last year when they were both freshman.

Haven't had anyone explain to me yet why Okafor is a better center in todays NBA than Poeltl.

Poeltl isn't a disaster on the Dragan Bender scale, but he is a long-term project that isn't going to be more than Eric Montross.

Wow... Eric Montross?  Don't you think you're exaggerating a bit? Poeltl already looks quite a bit better than Eric Montross to me.  Eric Montross played four years of college basketball and never had a season close to what Poeltl put up this year...