DishingnSwishing wrote:misterearl wrote:nykshaknbake wrote:misterearl wrote:For some reason I am having a difficult time understanding the fascination for Shelden Williams. He has already had auditions for six different teams, not counting the Atlanta Hawks on two separate occasions. He has never played on a team for two consecutive seasons. When a player is bounced around that much that should be a caution signal that dude is not that good.Just because he is new does not mean he can play.
It's doubtful he'll have a major positive effect but maybe we only get outrebounded by 10 or so instead of 20.
Shelden averages 4 rebounds for his career. You get outrebounded by 16.
You do the math.
He gets those 4 boards in about 12 minutes...Why not throw him out there and see what he can do..Can he cause things to be any worse?
That is a good point and the point. His rebounds/min are excellent. This year for Denver he played 17min/game and got 5.3 rebounds. Multiply that by 2 for starters minutes and he would have 34 mpg and 10.6 rebounds. For a bench player, that is good.
He doesn't need to score, we have Amare, Melo, Billups, Fields, Douglas, etc. for that. At 250+ lbs, he can box out and grab some rebounds. Sheldon is what we have right now, and we should make use of him.
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