Trevor Booker

[Krusheasy]

[ame="[MEDIA=twitter]420612556927946752[/MEDIA]"][/ame]

Trevor Booker, Washington Wizards

Crap. We need some backup bigs. Let's go with the ever-active Booker, a surprise starter on a team that fancies itself a contender for a second-round playoff run. Booker should be a bench player, but Washington's bench has been so awful that Randy Wittman has decided to use Nene in Booker's place, as a second-unit stabilizer who can also log crunch-time minutes with the starters.

Booker does one thing really well: He's a freaking animal on the offensive glass. He has rebounded 14.8 percent of Washington misses this season, an offensive rebounding rate that would have ranked no. 2 overall in each of the last two seasons — quite a feat for an undersize power forward who doesn't have a huge wingspan. Booker is bouncy and physical, with a great sense of where a rebound is going to go.

The rest? Meh. He's quick and mobile on defense, but he will sometimes lunge himself out of position within a Washington defense that has regressed badly this season.6 He doesn't offer rim protection, he can fall too much in love with his midrange shot, he doesn't get to the line, and he seems to go for at least one impossible highlight putback slam/throw every game. He shouldn't really be starting, and it will be interesting to see how long this experiment lasts.

Also mentions Wizards cast off Shelvin Mack
[ame="[MEDIA=twitter]420602915733004290[/MEDIA]"][/ame]