Finestrg wrote:GustavBahler wrote:I was impressed with Beno and his ability to shoot off the dribble and make quick decisions on the court, improvise. THJ, once he improves his shot selection and defense will be a real plus. Still believe we need Murry because some of our guards and PGs are already out for various reasons. Better safe than sorry. Been sorry for the last few years because we go through PGs pretty fast. Murry isn't a natural PG but he does a better job setting up teammates than Shump or JR. Hard to tell Murry is a converted SG. Not as athletic as Shump or JR though, but those two have all star athleticism.
CDR showed me nothing. I hope Ike and Murry make the final cut. I keep hearing that we have enough scoring but we don't have many players who can bang inside and step back and knock down a jumper like Diogu does.
Disagree with those that say CDR sucks and has no talent...That's flat out REDICULOUS...But I tend to agree now with those that say he's not a good fit here and to me, it all comes down to the coach...You can just tell...CDR has gotten token time (the more meaningful 'show me what you can do' time has gone to Toure Murry) and when he has gotten in, he's playing tight and not being allowed to do his thing. This guy's game is not to move the ball and go hide in the corner for the 5th option...LOL. He's a scorer that needs the ball. He'd be an AWESOME option on that 2nd unit, esp. with JR out. Even when JR returns -- think of the scoring we could have with JR AND CDR out there anchoring that 2nd unit, with Melo and Bargs out resting...Anyway -- not meant to be...Not with this stubborn coach...Not gonna happen. 2 stints last night for CDR: the 1st one -- he was moving the ball and playing some damn good defense. There was a play where he stopped someone baseline where the ball went to Quincy Acy & the 24 sec clock elapsed. Instead of a 24 sec vilation, there was a Knick foul on the play after a review -- anyone remember that play? GREAT defense by CDR there. After that play, during a huddle, Woody looked like he was angry with Chris and eyeballed him for 90% of the timeout. I thought that was uncalled for. What the hell did he do but shut down that attempt coming baseline?!?! LMAO..He had a couple of blown assignments, yeah -- lost site of his man a couple of times etc., but so did everone else, including Murry..He had a nice 'and-1' scope shot finish and a couple of missed 3-pointers that were good shots, taken in stride. Played pretty good defense a few other times as well (ripped the ball right away for someone at halfcourt, Ross maybe?, and was headed the other way for a breakaway before being wrapped up & fouled immediately....I thought he played well, man...It's just not gonna work with this coach, unfortunately. Funny, because Woody'll give JR Smith all the freedom in the world to bomb away from anywhere but then suppress a guy like CDR, a dude that I think is an even better/more efficient scorer than Smith...Whatever man. Feel bad for CDR -- I wish him luck. Wish it worked out here..
Haven't seen enough of CDR beyond preseason to agree or disagree. I'm going on what I've seen so far and so far he hasn't shown me anything that makes me want him to get a spot. Even with that very bad decision he made I would rather sign Diogu. We really need lunch pail kind of players like Ike who can actually score. For the most part our blue collar players have been inept offensively. Jeffries, Rose, among others. We have our share of high octane scoring already.
