Is Pekovic the Answer at Center?

I’m not a fine basketball mind, but I’ve been on the Pek train since the beginning of last season.

There are no other centers in the league who combine his size and strength with his scoring ability. Not even D-12, the most celebrated center of our time. To me, he’s like an Arvydas Sabonis who can’t pass as well (Okay, and never takes a shot outside of seven feet. You say that like it’s a bad thing). If you’ll remember, Sabonis was one of just a couple guys who could check Shaq in his prime. The refs seem to have gotten used to seeing small humans bounce off of Pek, and he’s not getting called for stupid fouls lately (only two fouls called on him last night).

In short—don’t trade Pek. He’s a rare commodity, and the players who are upgrades are either unattainable, or aren’t that big an upgrade.

Pek’s our center. Done, and done. Thanks to past years ears above, this is now a Pek poetry thread. Obligatory haiku coming…

Conquer foe village
Hug the women and children
Peksecutioner

i love watching Pek. He’s got such an old school bruising game, just like Love. When they were wearing those Muskie jerseys….It just made sense.

We had better not trade him. You don’t get guys that huge in this league anymore.

Maybe the Thunder want him and Ridnour for Harden and in that scenario you can’t ot trade Pek

or for example we could move Williams for McGee then Pek for Evan Turner that might be more valuable than not making that move.

But outside of something that you can’t plan for Pek’s your guy

and that definitely isn’t starting center with Pek. He is above average on offense and showing improvement in his weakest points (defense, defensive rebounding, fouls and 3-second violations). Good enough for now. Worry about starting 2 and 3, worry about the bizarra evolving kluge that is the second unit, always keep bringing in quality players to compete and push the starters.

Don’t trade him. Youngish, on a cheap contract, and I think he actually pairs kind of well with Love. While neither is a rangy,shot blocking defender, both rebound very well, score with high efficiency, make their free throws, and play good positional defense. Most centers are overpaid marginal players. Pek is not.

or at least no one occurs who is all that much better. Marcin Gortat? Bynum at his best?

Long Answer: Pek Yes.

6’11" 290, have not seen how he is on defense enough to comment but in last ten games he is getting 10 boards a game and is up to 6 each game this year. Unless his defense is terrible, Yes, there are not enough decent centers in the league as it is and even some of the good one don’t have a good post game like Noah for example.

Yes, I think of Pek in the shower. LOL

Seriously, he will need to find away to get better defensively I was thinking that mgmt needs to give him video of all the awesome defense that Kendrick Perkins has played through out his career to get an idea what he needs to be to take it to another level.

Like Perk he will never be shot-blocker so he has to learn to be an above average defender in other ways. Frankly, same goes for Kevin- he needs to spend his offseason truly acquiring that ‘small area quickness’ so he can be a better defender on his rotations and such.

Have been Peksecuted!!

Yao plays he drew up anymore once he got to ’Sota.

We have 3 players to build a champion with. A very-good – great Wing player and we will only be missing the secondary pieces.

Get Batum.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGXtphIiRYQ