Posted by Bippity10:
You keep trying to convince everyone that Zach has a lot of talent. You don't have to convince anyone here of that. Everyone on the board can see that he is a 23 pt 10 rebound player. It's not his talent that people are concerned about. If he brings it as a team player every night than he can solve a lot of our problems. The question that everyone has is, will he be a team player?
See this is where you and I get into problems. I'm not trying to convince anyone of anything, that's your interpretation of what i'm saying. I pointed out the impact he can have for this team as a 2nd dominant post presence. He's a player that can help us to score more efficiently. He's not a PG, he's here to SCORE!!! Don't tell me about being a team player, I know all about being a team player, but your stars are expected to be the dominant players that they are. This is not to say you want him to just ignore the team concept and break off from the plays all the time. That's not what I believe he's going to do. But you don't want him to defer, he's a PRIMARY scorer and as such his impact will be felt most when he's doing that. I'd love it if he could be a Point Forward type player, but I doubt that he's evolved his passing game that much.
Now if he's doubled hard you'll expect him to pass the ball cuz that's good BB. However, unless the shot is wide open, our guards should still look to get the ball back in his hands since he's gonna be higher % offense with a chance to also draw a foul. Having him allows us to keep playing inside out for the whole game, whereas we lost that last year when Curry sat down. My feeling is that he avg'd 2.2 asts on a bad team, he may improve on that here. He's already showing that he's further along than Curry in terms of playing team ball. He's better than Frye, the guy he replaced in that regard as well.
8/6/2007 10:34 AM
