EnySpree wrote:

kam77 wrote:As a starter he has some flaws but as a bench player put in the game for his offense you want someone who shoots it without a conscience. At the start of the year, Al was shooting very badly from three but almost fifty percent from 2. His three point shooting has come along and he is becoming a very dangerous weapon. For a bench player, what more can you ask for? He is a strong 6th man of the year candidate.

I mean if he was on Utah coming off the bench then it makes sense....or any other playoff calibur team.....on the Knicks Al Harrington shouldn't be on the bench...especially with the losers ahead of him. 41pts off the bench twice? The Knicks need a guy like that to start the games on the right foot...Same with Duhon...Duhon is a guy you put in as a change of pace guy to hold down the starters so they can get a breather. Wilson falls into that catagory as well....

thing is, chief, that he wouldn't be on a team like utah because his mental make-up does not fit in well with the Team that are the Jazz. you dig?

harrington is best suited for the role he has now-- a 'go-to' scorer on a 20-30 win team in the middle of a rebuilding phase. his second best role would be as a heavily curtailed 7th or 8th man on a winning team where his role was so precisely defined that he has no confusion about what is expected of him, and that would be about 15-20 minutes a game.

thing about guys like harrington is that they are so freakishly talented and athletic that it goes against cursory reasoning to put him in a 15mpg role-- but deeper analysis reveals that he can never be anything more than that. it's a case of Awesome Hope pitted versus Unsightly Reality.

TRU wrote:

orangeblobman wrote:

thing about guys like harrington is that they are so freakishly talented and athletic that it goes against cursory reasoning to put him in a 15mpg role-- but deeper analysis reveals that he can never be anything more than that.

Why? NOBODY can guard this dude. Nobody.

He dropped 41 off the bench TWICE, with no help. Zero. The second best offensive player on the team is 5'8".

One real scorer drawing the defense away from him is all this guy needs to consisitently dominate games-- either starting or off the bench.

and how many time he drop less than 10 points? something wrong, man. why no one see that? and we 3-13.

40 point scorers usually translate to some wins, not garbage ball. give break to me.

TMS wrote:i dunno how much value u can put into this, but the 3 games we've won this year Al has played 30-32 minutes off the bench & scored 26 or less... in the 3 games Al has scored 30 or more, he played 36-40 minutes off the bench & lost all 3 times... obviously i'm not saying it's his fault we lost, but this ties in with the concept that i don't believe u can have him be your go to guy & expect to win many games... he's much better in a supporting role... i just think having more of a balanced attack gives this team a better chance at winning games than having Al be the main focus of the offense personally... if we could use him in that capacity i have no problems w/Al on this team.

you can put 'hella' value into this, as they say in rap circles. because it's YET ANOTHER indication of the incredible ineptness of mr. harrington.

you know how they say, if it walks like duck, it is duck? well harrington walks like BIG DUCK.

EnySpree wrote:

orangeblobman wrote:

TMS wrote:i dunno how much value u can put into this, but the 3 games we've won this year Al has played 30-32 minutes off the bench & scored 26 or less... in the 3 games Al has scored 30 or more, he played 36-40 minutes off the bench & lost all 3 times... obviously i'm not saying it's his fault we lost, but this ties in with the concept that i don't believe u can have him be your go to guy & expect to win many games... he's much better in a supporting role... i just think having more of a balanced attack gives this team a better chance at winning games than having Al be the main focus of the offense personally... if we could use him in that capacity i have no problems w/Al on this team.

you can put 'hella' value into this, as they say in rap circles. because it's YET ANOTHER indication of the incredible ineptness of mr. harrington.

you know how they say, if it walks like duck, it is duck? well harrington walks like BIG DUCK.

Then dude you are the biggest duck on this forum

i don't know what that means, but i let it go, i let it go. why hate on brotha OBM??

Ira wrote:He's playing better now - attacking the basket instead of settling for threes. When he passes and rebounds, he's a very effective player.

Dude's a dynamite player. He played great today...

Meaning...he plays to control a team and a game as if he is a superstar but he comes up short more often than not.

You can't win over the long haul with such a player and his actions.

Now, I like Al Harrington, he tries hard, he plays well at times, but the truth of it is he will hurt you just enough to keep you from being a very good team - regardless of his teammates.

I say let him walk or use him to dump Jeffries or Curry if possible.

However, out of all the veterans we have, he could potentially be one that sticks. I just hope he isn't retained because we failed to land Bron or Wade or Bosh, etc. I don't want to be the Chicago Bulls when they eventually threw Jalen Rose all that money because nobody else would sign with them. Please...let us not do that. If a top FA doesn't sign then you hang on to the flexibility and try again another day. Signing average players with your cap space is not going to change your fortunes.