We were a 50+ win pace team before Adams, with Adams and I'm pretty sure after Adams. Everything you're saying he does well is true, but maybe you can see a different perspective where there are moving parts. When you have Adams along with either Sengun or Amen in there (sometimes both), the opportunities to drive to the basket would logically become severely limited because we're running the most crowded paint in the league. We might be creating the excessive need for offensive rebounds on our own. We already should be staggering Amen and Sengun to avoid 2 non-shooters on the floor - so whenever Adams comes in and grabs offensive rebounds, he's putting us back at square one which is deflating his value. Again, I love his game and I fully understand everything he does exceptionally well. You're not even bringing up the excellent locker room presence he brings. I just think there's things we need more than we need him. We absolutely demolished the Lakers on the boards in the first two games without him and we lost both games. We're an elite rebounding team anyway. It didn't work for us and we went smaller (Jabari taking Capela's minutes) and we won a bit more. I suspect Brook Lopez would make a much better backup C than Jabari and bring something different than Adams/Sengun's interior presence. It's more about maximizing opportunities for the guys we're going to pay the most - Amen, Sengun. Brook Lopez replaced Zubac and the Clippers didn't miss a beat even though Zubac is the better player. Their wing players caught fire when the paint was cleared. Same principle here. Don't exaggerate and say Brook Lopez can't be a backup C. Adams is breaking down all the time and is very old himself. We're not looking for a star here.
