He might have gone 'Toine, but you can't go Full 'Toine unless you're shooting long threes early in the shot clock. Eating up the whole shot clock is also dumb, but it's an entirely different kind of dumb.
Funny that you feel that way, because Vasquez and Patterson have, literally, been valuable role players every place they've ever played, except Sacramento. And let's not disregard the fact that Toronto has been better since they made that trade. Seems like they knew exactly what they were doing.
Sorry to have to tell you, but everybody can't be saved.
First of All™, McCallum being the best player going out? Yeah, right. McCallum is the tenth-best player on this team. And, second of all, oh, no the hell he wouldn't. Granted, Cousins would be the most talented individual player that Smith has ever played with, but we aren't anywhere remotely close to the most talented team that Smith has ever played on.
Smith has already had one of those; his name is Maurice Cheeks. I'm pretty sure he ran him out of town.
He might have gone 'Toine, but you can't go Full 'Toine unless you're shooting long threes early in the shot clock. Eating up the whole shot clock is also dumb, but it's an entirely different kind of dumb.
Funny that you feel that way, because Vasquez and Patterson have, literally, been valuable role players every place they've ever played, except Sacramento. And let's not disregard the fact that Toronto has been better since they made that trade. Seems like they knew exactly what they were doing.
Sorry to have to tell you, but everybody can't be saved.
First of All™, McCallum being the best player going out? Yeah, right. McCallum is the tenth-best player on this team. And, second of all, oh, no the hell he wouldn't. Granted, Cousins would be the most talented individual player that Smith has ever played with, but we aren't anywhere remotely close to the most talented team that Smith has ever played on.
Smith has already had one of those; his name is Maurice Cheeks. I'm pretty sure he ran him out of town.
After seeing what Ryan Hollins can do in limited playing time, that long athletic body that knows how to move without the ball and finish as well as block shots, Henson (more talented obviously)would be a terrific back up PF and a guy who could guard stretch 4's.
No it isn't. It's simple math: if you brick a long jumper with nineteen seconds left on the shot clock, the other team can run it back on you in transition three times as often as if you brick a long jumper with three seconds left on the shot clock. They're both reckless and dumb, but one of them is more reckless and dumb than the other one, by a significant margin. And, here's a protip for you, the dumber one is not Rudy Gay.
I find that unsurprising, at this stage. You said that a player like Gay doesn't get traded for players like Vasquez and Patterson, unless he has serious problems, with the clear subtext being that Vasquez and Patterson are not good players. My point was that Vasquez and Patterson are good players, and that your comment was therefore specious. This wasn't like when Phoenix traded Shaq for Sasha Pavlovic, Ben Wallace (whom they immediately waived) and a second-round pick; Toronto traded value, and got value back.
Which is a point against acquiring Josh Smith. I would agree that Gay felt "forced" into the 'takeover' role in Toronto. That doesn't apply to Smith: it didn't apply here in Atlanta, and it doesn't apply in Detroit. Smith doesn't feel "forced" into the takeover role; he knows that he's not supposed to be in that role. He takes it upon himself to give himself that role. Rudy Gay is a Robin who was forced to be Batman. And, now that he gets to be Robin again, he is tons more effective. Not only is Josh Smith not a Robin who has been forced to be Batman, he's actually more like a Booster Gold who thinks he's Superman.
Except that Gay being efficient in Sacramento doesn't mean that the Raptors fans were wrong. And, more to the point, it doesn't have much to do with Josh Smith. As has already been pointed out to you, Gay was an inefficient chucker for a year; Josh Smith has been an inefficient chucker forever.
And, again, I'm not surprised. My point here is that you are grossly overrating Ray McCallum. I am aware that Josh Smith's trade value is not very high, but you said that you think that we could get Smith in a trade where McCallum is the best player going out, which is absurd on the face of it. Ray McCallum is, like, the tenth-best player on the Sacramento Kings. There's no way in the world that we could acquire Smith in a trade where we gave up no player better than him.
The 2009-10 or 2010-11 Hawks would win a Best-of-Seven against this team 4-2. You're insane if you think otherwise.
It isn't "to be seen," it has been seen. It didn't work.
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So what were his options in this situation? 4.1 to go - pass it to Drummond on the 3pt Line in order to try a potential penetration to tie the game? Or wait for one of the three players standing around underneath the basket to get open?
When it's 4 second to go with the game on the line and the PG sets up a 25% 3point shooter on the 3point line, instead of taking a wide open layup for the tie the PG is the one to blame and not the PF who has basically no options besides shooting the ball.
