Also if you notice with Thad at power forward he becomes almost entirely a perimeter shooter offensively.  No opportunities to post up (inside threat you mention) and typically his defender plays off him to take away the drive baiting him to take the jumper.  I’d love to see him take advantage of his quickness against most power forwards but right now I am not seeing it all that much.  Partly because he doesn’t get nearly the number of iso opportunities as Iguodala (even though he has a better advantage) and partly because he just doesn’t attack as much as I think he should.  All I see is jump shot after jump shot.

Also, last night he had 4 steals against a power forward that likes to play beyond the three point line often. (personally if I was the coach of the Wiz I would have emphasized to Jamison to stay in the post and save the perimeter shots for another match up) His ball denial was fantastic and lead to most of those steals.  I don’t see that happening as much when he is stuck in the paint dealing with predominantly back to the basket power forwards.    But like I said we’ll see.

Power forwards he will be matched up with:

• Jeff Foster
• KG
• Kenyon Martin
• Carlos Boozer or Paul Millsap if Boozer is still hurt.
• Zack Randolph
• Dirk (twice)
• Tim Duncan (twice)
• Scola
• Luc Richard Mbah a Moute
• Boris Diaw
• Josh Smith
• LaMarcus Aldridge
• Al Harrington

I’ll have more on “if he’s playing power forward and we win more than we lose, then Thad can play the 4, like last year.”  Not so much about Thad but about what I really think about “last year.”

And that clearly showed last night.  You make it seem like he was abused all Winson Justice-like by Jamison and Mbah A Moute, but if you take away Jamison’s 0-6 from three, Jamison was around 50% FG% going against Thad, which is a “good” Jamison game.  He gets that against Al Jefferson.  Let’s say you use someone else, like Evans – that’s only worth about 2~4 points defensively, but you don’t gain any rebounding, and offensively you lose both an inside-outside threat, someone who’ll create better spacing for this team’s guards, who are almost all dribble drive penetrators (Speights is another story).

The cherry on top would be his stealing (4 steals last night), something that would also offset his size disadvantage and is a skill that’s absolutely crucial for this poor-shooting Sixers team that relies heavily on fastbreaking for points and wins.  And it’s not gambling-type of steals that he gets, either, he’s just good at knocking the ball away from unsuspecting guys.

Hell, if you think about it, he basically spent/wasted $6 million on Mo by extending him this season and next season then firing him.  I think money played a very small part in not bringing in a new coach this season because then the Sixers would be paying two guys at once.