Posted by MS:
"We've replaced a mess at the 4 spot with an 20-10 player with a high PER rating"
I love this quote? Couldn't be farther off the mark. We replaced a mess at the four spot, since when is 11pts 11rbs and 60% shooting without a plan being ran for you a mess? Perhaps the mess was in effect because our coach is a mess and tried to start Jerome James, Channing Frye and Jared Jefferies over lee three brilliant acquistions......
We have a 20pts 10rb player hypothetically, he average that amount in twice in his career and numbers like that are impressive. But he was fighting for shots with who last year.....Crawford took more shots than roy, richardson nearly took an identical amount, you have 14 shots for curry, 10 for marbury when hes not dropping dimes and dishing out assists, so it's very fair to say that zach doesn't even get 18pts a night.
When it comes down to it who is really mentally tough on this team? Jamal you say because he hits some big shots? Not even close. Steph? How many big shots does this guy miss, bad plays when the game is on the line. Eddy? When he isn't force fed he doesn't try. So you have a question mark mentally at nearly every position, players that make excuses and a coach who enforces them, there are plenty of reason to be skeptical
You made my point for me MS. Lee needs to stay as the 3rd man in a big man rotation to get the numbers he did last year. Isiah isn't bringing him off the bench because he wants to make him the sixth man, he's doing it because he's not as good against front line starters.
And, no we don't have a lot of mentally tough players, Zach might be crazy, but he's a monster in the games and nobody getting the numbers he did is soft.
Alan Hahn:
Nate Robinson has been on a ridonkulous scoring tear lately (remember when he couldn't hit Jerome James with a Big Mac in early January?)