It's not about liking or disliking Evans. I just don't think his skillset is good for what we actually need. We always end up putting him back as the primary ball handler and the team stops moving the ball and we get 13 team assist nights and then everyone comes on the board complaining that the reason the assists were low is because nobody was making their shots ect ect.
I never said I hated the guy, I am, and always have been a supporter of pure PGs and I believe one would (with how the team is built) take us to many more wins than a "ball handler" at PG. There is much more to playing PG than just passing it and handling the ball.
The stats I look at are win/loss records. This year the Kings are 5-13 with Evans, and 6-6 without. The team assist totals without Evans are astronomically higher than with Evans. The shooting % is higher, and the defense hasn't got any worse to my knowledge.
That being said the only guy I would want to trade Evans for on the Celtics lineup is Rondo. Evans has more value than every other player I would want to take a look at.
You people are just flat dishonest at a certain point. Unfortunately I do not have a short memory.
All of this nonsense. ALL of it, dates back exactly 4 games. FOUR GAMES. Not a peep out of this foolishness for a solid month. And you want to know why? Well first of all everybody was too busy hanging Cuz in effigy to bother picking on Reke for a while -- charming ruins of a fanbase once called the best in the league we have here. But here's the other reason -- because you people were flat out hiding. You, Gary, had the gall to come on here and openly TAUNT people when Reke sturggled through the first 10 games of the season. Taunt them. I told you so them. I always knew what was he was etc. Then Reke snaps into gear, and poof, you disappear like a ghost on the issue. Now for a solid month we have been dying a slow and ugly offensive death without Reke out there, and then boom, Cuz blows up, the team seems to come together from it, we get 4 pretty easy games in a row, 3 at home against struggling/injured road teams and all of a sudden the fanbase which can't tolerate prosperity without throwing somebody under the bus whips out the knives to carve on their old favorite target again.
Enough. You people should be embarrassed.
Now let me throw the numbers at your feet. Have fun trying to twist and spin them to justify the latest nonsense push. Here are all the games since Reke went down where he did not play (I included Denver where he was clearly hobbled and only played 10min of the first quarter -- trying to blame that gme on him would require gall even for his detractors). So here's how we did without him until 4 games ago. FOUR. :
Nov 30: 92pts 42.7%FG 15ast
Dec 1: 81pts 38.2%FG 23ast
Dec 7: 91pts 40.5%FG 20ast
Dec 8: 99pts 41.9%FG 22ast
Dec10: 96pts 44.0%FG 22ast
Dec16: 97pts 34.1%FG 13ast (Reke plays 10min, can't go)
Dec17: 90pts 41.0%FG 15ast
Dec19: 131pts 50.0%FG 25ast (the out of nowhere Golden State home win)
Dec21: 85pts 41.8%FG 18ast (Cuz blows up)
So there we go. Up unitl one week ago. One week. We play 9 games without Reke. We break 100pts ONE time. We shoot better than 45% ONE time. This goes on for a solid month mind you. Oh, and mind you as well that in the 8 games Reke does play between the lineup change post Atlanta game, we score 100 or more points 5 of the 8 times. So there is our backdrop, and not a nonsense peep out of anyone. For damn good reason. Then we have a blowup, a major event, that has absolutely nothing to do with Reke at all, and all of a sudden for 4 games, FOUR, people start to pass the ball. And all of a sudden it was Reke holding us back from doing it before. The same guy who has been missing for a solid month while nobody on the team could throw the ball in the ocean. The same guy who's presence seemed to singlehandedly elevate us in the weeks before he left. And now he's back to being a villain because we play FOUR good passing games (@Portland was ineffective assists or not) a month after he was last consistently in the lineup. A more cynical observer might say that a certain subset of fans were just waiting and waiting and waiting until their next chance to scapegoat him.
