Bob Myers knows a thing or two about basketball.
He was named NBA Executive of the Year in 2015 and 2017.
On Thursday, Myers joined BJ Armstrong and Gerald Brown on the podcast "In the Key."
Armstrong -- the former NBA guard and current agent (he reps Draymond Green) -- asked Myers the following question:
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"We have this era of small ball that forever you will be associated with ... you guys are without question the best at small ball ... what does the game look like five years from now?"
"What's happening is -- the center position is really the one taking the biggest hit," Myers answered. "The 3-point shot has changed what centers are asked to do ... going under a screen now is almost unheard of because the guards can shoot the 3 so well ... so now you're asking a 7 foot guy to somehow either hedge out on the screen and disrupt the pick-and-roll there. Or switch it.
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"Now how many 7 foot men in the world are capable of staying in front of Steph Curry, anybody that's a perimeter-oriented player with rules that don't allow hand checking?
"So where do I think it's going? Clearly, we've gotten to a point where we are asking big guys to do things that they are not comfortable doing, and we're taking advantage of that ... I think where it's going is because I think the whole game has changed to the 3-point shot -- as we move forward in high school -- we didn't switch screens in high school. But if you come up now, the first practice, you're switching screens in high school; you're switching screens in college.
"So if you take a big guy that's 10 years old right now that's 6'11" -- he's probably switching screens on the playground. So the point is, it's going to catch up where you're going to see a 5 that has been asked to switch screens since he was 12 or 13 years old, that when he gets to the NBA he's going to go, 'Yeah. I got this.' So the center position isn't going away."
Without question -- in both the present and the future -- big men are going to need to be able to hold their own when defending guards.
When you look at the upcoming draft, there are a lot of "centers" who are projected to to be taken in the Top 10.
And their ability to handle themselves on the perimeter defensively is under the microscope.
"I could be totally wrong on this," Myers said. "We could end this conversation and you guys could say, 'he's an idiot.' (laughter). I think everything will eventually catch up."
Drew Shiller is the co-host of Warriors Outsiders. Follow him on Twitter @DrewShiller
