Denver Nuggets GM Calvin Booth believes that rookie big man DaRon Holmes II can one day become a starting power forward.
(via Denver Nuggets):
“I think it was very important to add more athleticism and skill and IQ. I think that long term, Don has a chance to be a starting NBA 4. I think the league has become a little bit more physical, they’re allowing a little bit more contact on closeouts. The more you start to see that… We witnessed in the Minnesota series, it’s a very physical game. So in that style of NBA, I think he’s a 4 all day. I played in the era where there was Rasheed Wallace and Joe Smith and Cliff Robinson, and all these different guys that were 6’10, 6’11. Probably there was a period a few years ago where it would have been harder for some of those guys to play in this NBA where closeouts were so hard to guard, because you couldn’t touch the guy. But I think where the NBA is going right now, I think he’s a 100 percent a 4.”
