In today’s NBA, Carter can certainly play the 5. There are very few big men I would feel uncomfortable with him guarding, especially as he gains experience and more muscle. I, too, like the future of the team. We can certainly use another 3 and D guy, but those are fairly easy to find mid/late-lottery and in free agency. Hopefully we have a solid enough core that we can be an attractive enough destination for a superstar to want to sign or get traded to us in the next few years. Without that, we are probably capped at being the Toronto Raptors pre-Leonard.