I have to agree with most of Bricky's points. This team has started to create and idenity, and its not hard to see what that idenity is. So the question is, at least in my mind, is not whether Martin can just fit in, but, can he help establish that idenity.
There are three possiblilites as far as I'm concerned. One, he comes back and doesn't fit at all and actually disrupts the chemistry of the team. Two, he comes back and fits in without disrupting the team, but has no noticable effect on the outcome of the games. Three, he comes back and helps make the team even tougher by sacrificing some of his offense and playing tough defense.
Yeah, I know! I left out the part about his scoring 25 points a game. Well, thats contained in the first two senario's. You can score 25 points and still have no effect on the eventual outcome of the game. My point is, that if Martins offense doesn't translate into more wins for the team, then its of little value, especially since I believe the team is fifth in the league in scoring right now. Scoring isn't the problem for this team. Stopping the other team from scoring is the problem.
My third senario is the least likely to my mind. Not impossible, but I would be shocked if it occurred. I guess a fourth senario would be Martin comes back and is willing to play the roll of a support player. Becomes perhaps, even the third option at times. Realizes that he may be on the bench in favor of either Greene or Udoka for defensive purposes at crunch time.
Make no mistake, I like Martin. I would love for him to fit in. My gut tells me it won't work, but I have to admit that Westphal has been pretty good at managing his roster so far.
Someone mentioned Martins passing ability and ballhandling. His ballhandling is just decent. He tends to get into trouble when he dribbles into traffic. Thats why he's known as a slasher, but not a finisher. When Martin drives to the basket, for the most part, its to get fouled, not to make the basket. Thats why he usually pulls up in the key for some kind of shot. He's not a good passer, and any assists he gets are assists of convenience. His assist to turnover ratio are almost 1 to 1. Truth is, he knows he's not a good passer, so he doesn't passs the ball very often. Which in turn means that when he gets the ball, your probably not going to see him pass it.
Martin is what he is. And, I guess we'll find out fairly soon whether or not he fits in. But as Bricky said, he has a lot of value around the league, so he therefore has a lot of value to us.
There are three possiblilites as far as I'm concerned. One, he comes back and doesn't fit at all and actually disrupts the chemistry of the team. Two, he comes back and fits in without disrupting the team, but has no noticable effect on the outcome of the games. Three, he comes back and helps make the team even tougher by sacrificing some of his offense and playing tough defense.
Yeah, I know! I left out the part about his scoring 25 points a game. Well, thats contained in the first two senario's. You can score 25 points and still have no effect on the eventual outcome of the game. My point is, that if Martins offense doesn't translate into more wins for the team, then its of little value, especially since I believe the team is fifth in the league in scoring right now. Scoring isn't the problem for this team. Stopping the other team from scoring is the problem.
My third senario is the least likely to my mind. Not impossible, but I would be shocked if it occurred. I guess a fourth senario would be Martin comes back and is willing to play the roll of a support player. Becomes perhaps, even the third option at times. Realizes that he may be on the bench in favor of either Greene or Udoka for defensive purposes at crunch time.
Make no mistake, I like Martin. I would love for him to fit in. My gut tells me it won't work, but I have to admit that Westphal has been pretty good at managing his roster so far.
Someone mentioned Martins passing ability and ballhandling. His ballhandling is just decent. He tends to get into trouble when he dribbles into traffic. Thats why he's known as a slasher, but not a finisher. When Martin drives to the basket, for the most part, its to get fouled, not to make the basket. Thats why he usually pulls up in the key for some kind of shot. He's not a good passer, and any assists he gets are assists of convenience. His assist to turnover ratio are almost 1 to 1. Truth is, he knows he's not a good passer, so he doesn't passs the ball very often. Which in turn means that when he gets the ball, your probably not going to see him pass it.
Martin is what he is. And, I guess we'll find out fairly soon whether or not he fits in. But as Bricky said, he has a lot of value around the league, so he therefore has a lot of value to us.
Omri's probably already about as good as Detlef up until he really hit his prime in his late 20's.
