[POLL] What does "role player" mean to you?
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KevinMartinsGirl23
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role player to me- a player on a team that is brought in to do something specific.. i.e. shooting, defense, blocking shots, energy, etc.
Bricklayer
Don't Make Me Use The Bat
A roleplayer plays a "role", which is generally specializing in some aspect of the game without particular focus on anything else. And the thing he focuses on cannot be offense, although it can be one aspect of offense (normally 3pt shooting). He CAN be a starter, but is very rarely a 6th man (who is normally more of a scorer). Normally the roleplayer is a guy who can contribute wihtout needing to touch the ball very much.
Hence Shaq and Wade were not roleplayers, obviously. But Haslem was. Walker was not -- he was just a player and their #3 scorer. But Posey was (defense). JWill was fuzzy, but really just a player, not a roleplayer. For us last year, Hart and Skinner were the most natural roleplayers. KT helped us near the end of the season after we forced him into a roleplaying focus on rebounding. Nobody else really qualified. Corliss has become suhc a postup SF specialist he might almost have qualified, as would Sampson if he had played.
The most common roleplayers are rebounder/shotblockers, perimeter defenders, or three point shooters. Rarely you can see something else like a postup roleplayer (the old Bill Cartwright or James Buddha Edwards role), or somebody who is not really a rolpelayer but gets the title anyway -- the jack of all trades guy who does everything but score.
Hence Shaq and Wade were not roleplayers, obviously. But Haslem was. Walker was not -- he was just a player and their #3 scorer. But Posey was (defense). JWill was fuzzy, but really just a player, not a roleplayer. For us last year, Hart and Skinner were the most natural roleplayers. KT helped us near the end of the season after we forced him into a roleplaying focus on rebounding. Nobody else really qualified. Corliss has become suhc a postup SF specialist he might almost have qualified, as would Sampson if he had played.
The most common roleplayers are rebounder/shotblockers, perimeter defenders, or three point shooters. Rarely you can see something else like a postup roleplayer (the old Bill Cartwright or James Buddha Edwards role), or somebody who is not really a rolpelayer but gets the title anyway -- the jack of all trades guy who does everything but score.
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