See, bigs viewed as Centers are an overvalued commodity across the league. Typically, the right trade can bring in star-power for a young C-type player.

Almost all players are “limited” in some sense, so the question then goes to what are within his limits and are those skills useful enough that he can contribute to winning basketball. All but the most Stern-fed-hype mad individuals should recognize that the answer to that is a resounding “yes.” Not only can he contribute to a winning team, but he has and he’s shown that the team he plays for is better with him than without.

Biedrins is a very good rebounder. If you want to believe that those rebounds “just happen” or that his stats are somehow false because of “the system” you are entirely free to do so and be wrong and misled. He’s been a very good rebounder since he got to the league, before this “system” came to be when he had other good rebounders playing.

Biedrins shoots for a very, very, very high percentage from the floor. Yes, they’re short shots, dunks, layups and putbacks. They count for 2 points. He doesn’t miss shots and missing shots is a great way to hand the ball back to the other team without scoring. Sure he might not be a “go to guy” but his offense is entirely gravy in that his points do not come at the expense of someone else who would be more efficient at scoring. Knocking the “dunks and layups” makes it sound like these things are easy. It it was easy, more guys would do it. It isn’t easy. Remember Foyle fumbling passes to him? Remember him letting rebounds (that Biedrins converts to a dunk or layup) bounce off of him and go out of bounds? Remember watching the “athletic” Harrington somehow struggle to hit layups? I certainly do. All of those instances cost the team. Biedrins doesn’t make those mistakes often.

But of course, we’re fueled with hype that points per game scoring is what makes a guy valuable and that a big man has to “bang” to be effective. The results strongly suggest that Biedrins is quite good and valuable to the team.