Portland Trail Blazers: 3 reasons to love the Robert Covington trade

Reason three – he has great positional size

One of the main problems the Blazers had last year was that they were too small and that players had to play out of position. Because their starting guards and core duo in Lillard and McCollum are both six-foot-three and under, if the Blazers’ other personnel is small, the team struggles to perform the core roles required of an NBA team.

This includes rebounding, boxing out, screening, and obviously defense. Last season, they had guys like Anfernee Simons playing the three and Rodney Hood playing the four. Carmelo Anthony even played the five for a significant period of time.

This season, the Blazers will have great positional size from positions three through five. And Covington playing the three and four at six-foot-eight is huge for the Blazers. He also has a massive seven-foot-two wingspan.

Covington is one of the best defensive rebounders at his position, and his excellent positional size means that he can guard the top forwards in the league like LeBron James, Kawhi Leonard, and Paul George. Though he is a better team defender than a man defender, Covington can competently defend the bigger players at the two, three, and four positions.

With Covington’s addition, we won’t have to see players played out of position anymore.

Robert Covington is a great acquisition, a six-foot-eight forward who can shoot threes and defend multiple positions. There is so much to like about him as a player.