I have never seen a Center EVER EVER EVER run around with the speed of Willie and then have to look at a forum full of apparently blind people claiming he doesnt give effort..... Willie obviously gives way more effort than all of those people do at their jobs when their on the clock. You'll tell me i'm wrong about that though. Willie is out running world class athletes but "gives no effort"... You guys have the perspective of foolish fans if you think he gives no effort, and frankly your ability to gauge the enegery of the players on the court with your eyes is POOR if you've concluded that.
I am not just an apologist, I am the guy whos gonna raise hell here once Willie is re-signed...
...I am 31 years old and retired, been across this globe many times, one thing im sure of is this whole planet would be a much better place if everyone "ran the floor" as hard as willie does when its game-time.
Can we all just remember the detroit pistons gamethread when everyone was hyping up Drummonds rebounding SOOOOO much and talking crap about willie and then he balled on him???
Does Willie not hold court fairly well vs Anthony Davis?
Look at the games vs Utah. The 2 we had Willie (1 win - 1 loss both close) vs 1 absolute spanking without him.
The ultimate "why the anti-willie crowd is misguided" thing should be something basic and straightforward, and somethign that should be celebrated here, but instead it's like an elephant in the room that "the willie haters" dont want to talk about is;
OUR 21 year old franchise PG's favorite passing target is WILLIE....
...Quite frankly, you have typed a whole heap of fluff and not addressed a single concern that was raised in my post above. Not one. Is WCS inconsistent? Is he the one that has been complaining the most this season whether its to do with his role or the trades? Has he been the one at the start of the season saying how he wants to get paid and then proceed to put in yet another inconsistent year together?
Do you know why people are frustrated? Its because they see the same world class athlete that you do. The same long dude who should be a manace on the floor on the opposition.......but he is not. You don't know what you are going to get out of his from game to game. He floats in and out of games. That is the frustrating part. He has the potential to be a perennial all-defensive team big which would make him into a perennial all-star but he is not interested. He wants to be the go to guy. Talk about delusional. There is absolutely no reason why WCS cannot be a better version of Ben Wallace but he is not interested in being that. He wants to be a Porzingis, a KAT type player. Sorry but are you telling me that is not delusional?
WCS talked the talk prior to the season but he once again didn't walk the walk. He took his inconsistency to another level after the All-Star break. With that his complaining went up. It's funny you talk about chemistry but don't even foresee the issues if or more likely when WCS is replaced in the starting line up and is reduced to a bench role. Do you think he will be a positive impact on chemistry then?
The lobs are getting thrown to Bagley and Giles too. Its a play that we go to. WCS is longer and just as athletic if not more athletic than Bagley and Giles (definitely) so it makes sense that he is a lob target (it really the only way he can reliably score). Bagley and Giles get the lobs too.....its part of the play set.
If WCS can consistently give me 12ppg, 10+rpg, 3apg, 1.5bpg and 1.5spg (which in reality should be his stat line), then I am more than happy to keep him around. More than happy but for 3 years he has shown us no improvement in consistency despite a significant increase in minutes and role within the team.
We don't want to rebuild the team. We want to improve it so that we do become a perennial play off team and a contender and if we are brutally honest, C is our weakest link going forward. WCS had all the opportunities in the world from the moment DMC was traded yet failed to capitalize on them and remove any doubt. Fox, Hield, Barnes, Bagley are not getting moved. You can write that in pen. WCS is the one that quite clearly is the odd man out. When he is on, he is exactly what the team needs but his problem has always been that he is not always on. It's been the question mark on his since his draft year and he has done nothing in 4 years to remove that question mark. Larry Bird said WCS could be a $100 million player and I say, yes he could in the best case scenario that quite clearly has not happened.
WCS would not be starting for any play off team out there. Why should he be our hope there when he has nothing to put the position beyond doubt like the rest of his team mates.
