nixluva wrote:martin wrote:Childs2Dudley wrote:Douglas is a flaming idiot. Such a low basketball IQ.
I have just about given up on TD as PG. Dude plays with blinders on.
And for all of the talk that he is good on the defensive end, he'll get a steal once but miss on gambles on 3 other tries that lead to easy baskets for other team and 2 fouls on other plays. 1 steal and like 5 bad plays.
Sorry to say it, but that's what I see too. I thought the kid had turned a corner at one point. He was under control and making plays. I just don't think he's got the court vision or mentality to be a PG. I still wish we could've traded for Ridnour. He'd be a good back up.
As each month goes by I am less impressed with Felton too.
He puts up stats, has a 20/10 game every once in a while, but I expected more leadership and quality play for entire games.
I just don't see him making enough plays that get easy baskets for other players (sure, every once in a while he will have a fantastic PnR pass to Amare or whomever). His mental mistakes come too often too (sloppy passes to post player, repeatedly giving Amare the ball on the move 40 feet from basket, whipping passing in traffic that he has no business making, etc). I saw at least 3-4 big defensive mistakes during the New Jersey game, some of them coming in the second recovery play action (there is a switch and recover and Felton makes the first good move but doesn't give effort to get back to his man or comes off pick too slowly).
This could all be because he has an incompetent backup and the minutes are wearing on him, and he certainly is banged up and not complaining about that. Outside of the San Antonio huge win, I can't remember a game where Felton really pushed the ball for a whole game.
Felton has had about a good month or so where he was very good, but that's it. And he has become a siv lately, letting his guy get past him waaaayyyy too easily.
2/12/2011 10:23 PM