You're garbage. Sitting home butt naked with primitive skills and married to an ugly beast, I'm pretty confident that Balkman, Randolph and Darko can say they all living a better quality of life than you and are superior athletes, human beings and just basically everything else there is to offer. You're a nobody to be calling anyone garbage, except yourself.
Resentful much? You a day late and a dolla short Metroid.. The chance you had to save face after the lashing i gave you sailed away some time ago. All your doing now is further proving what a classless, grumpy A -hole you are. Nice. You retorting to comments I made more than a week ago is laughable, no pathetic :barf: dude. It just is what it is and everyone can see it. The good thing is I could care less.
AR can play within in this system. It just takes time and experience. A lot of guys in this system looked LOST the first 15 games. What happen? Within experience and failure, this roster learned how to avoid fail and obtain success. Randolph obviously is going to fail at first, but if you give a talent and skillful player like him the minutes, turning it around and contributing to this roster is a high possibility. Don't you know anything about sports?
Yea you're right, it would take time for AR to adjust to the system. Unfortunately it's time we don't have right now, especially considering what a huge learning curve he has which contributes largely to the woeful ineptitude we've all seen when he enters a game. Combine his awfulness w the fact we're out of tanking/ rebuilding mode (trying to win every possible game), and you can see the obviousness behind Mike D's reasoning for not playing him. Well, most rational, sane fans see this. YOU, I DEFINITELY DO NOT PUT IN THAT CATEGORY. AR is a project right now. You sound like a moron advocating he get important minutes. You should stop. 
Randolph can do everything you listed on offense. If you haven't watched him in Golden State, he has shown many flashes. Now for him to be consistent, he needs to get experience with this team. If he never does, he'll never have a real chance to prove himself. and it'll be unfair and ignorant as hell to judge him when the chance was never given. Please do not speculate that Randolph isn't preforming well at practice. You're a nobody eating doritos with your fat yourself and you got no connects to the Knicks organization or you don't sit by the practices to witness this. You don't know, so don't say. Dumbass.
Simply put, you're wrong. The areas I stated that he's deficient in are the exact reasons why he doesn't play. Wake up dude. Put the pom-poms down son! Stop cheerleading for a player that has only proved he can play 20 mpg on a disorganized, losing/ rebuilding squad like G-state. Nobody said anything about what he's doing in practice. I could care less about what he's doing in practice right now. I care about what he does in the game when he's in. Since he's gotten time, garbage time against the other teams scrubs no-less, all he's proven is that he's still awful. AR is a hot mess. He needs to sit the bench, learn the game in practice and continue to grow. You really don't know what you're talking about.
If this offense isn't so difficult to grasp, then what is it going to hurt us by playing Randolph? I thought you said you need to be so god damn dynamic in this offense, but now its not difficult to grasp? You're putting your argument to defeat by yourself. Way to contradict yourself. How about you reread the crap you write? Thanks.
First of all when I say this offense is simple I mean the concepts are simple. Unfortunately, to execute them against NBA level talent/ defensive schemes is not.. Also, I think you're conflating his seeming dynamism w his ability to grasp this offense. It is simple yet highly effective system. The fact that it is simple serves to illustrate what a fundamentally challenged player AR is. He either doesn't understand the main concepts of our offense, or if he does, he isn't able to translate them into effective on-court play. He just needs to continue to get reps in practice. Metro, root for him to learn in practice, not in games right now. NY doesn't have the time or patience FOR HIM TO BE FACKING UP OUR GAMES.
The ideal way to utilize a player like AR, who is somewhat versatile would be for him to play multiple positions depending on what's needed, ie who's in the game. Unfortunately his game is not complete enough to really be effective in our system at the any of the 3 positions he would play at ideally (we know he isn't a 1 or 2 obviously..).
He can't play the 3 in our offense because although he has good ball-handling skills and ability to slash, he can't shoot the three. The 3 man in our O usually spots up at the 3pt line. When he gets the ball either in transition or the halfcourt he's supposed to read the D and take what it gives. If our man is open, he should shoot. But AR cannot shoot very well so he isn't applicable in this situation. Let's face it he's no Williams, Walker, Chandler or Gallo. He's not a knockdown shooter yet. If his defender closes hard, he should drive. If when he drives he draws a perimeter defender, he should kick to the open shooter. If another of the defense's perimeter defenders helps due to quick ball-movement we've all seen, he should pass to the shooter left open upon that rotation. In either of these situations, which both would require quick, decisive action on AR's part, he's shown he can't be trusted currently to actually hit the man that's been left open by the help defender w a catchable pass because he becomes indecisive because of either nervousness, lack of vag maybe, insomnia, or because he's just a plain dumb facking head case . He'll throw the ball out of bounds, or in the stands before it actually lands in the hands of one of our players. I know this is harsh but I've seen it toooooo many times when he's gotten minutes.
He can't play the 4 or 5 in our offense right now for a couple of reasons:
1. He shown NO ability to run the pick and roll. I don't think he has any idea how to read properly off the roll against NBA level talent, ie knowing when to pop for the 15-17 foot shot, or when to cut to the hoop properly by making himself available to actually catch a pass. Turiaf won't normally pop off the pick after he sets it because of his sketchy shot, but atleast he knows how to roll off of it and catch/finish. He's proved this time and again, particularly in recent games. AR has not shown any comprehension let alone ability to execute this staple-aspect of our offense in an actual game situation. How's he going to play in our offense at the 4 or 5 if he can't be a component that keeps the engine of this offense moving when our other moving parts are resting?? Seems counter-productive to me.. Frankly, I'd love for him to spell Amare or Turiaf for that matter but he's just not ready.
2. He can't guard anyone w a remotely good low-post game. He fouls guys down there at an exceedingly high rate. Someone posted his rate of fouls in this thread I think, or another and it's just horrible. Why would you want a guy to get minutes when he's proved thus far he can't guard his lunch in the paint smh??
1. Most players in the NBA can't guard the post. This isn't the 90's.
Are you facking nuts?? This is your idiotic comment of the week i guess. Most veteran front court players have some modicum of understanding/ability to guard the post. This is just a ridiculous comment from a no-nothing fan. Who do you think is coaching these guys up?? The answer is former NBA players and experienced basketball men. The baffling thing is the guys from the 90's (also the 70's and 80's for that matter) who you say could guard the post, are the ones who are teaching the players of today the same principles. Do you think guys like Olajuwon, Mc Adoo, Ewing & Aguire aren't teaching current players to play post defense?? :drink: You really are a moron.
2. Randolph isn't a tweener, he's a hybrid. He can play 3 positions and thats beneficial to us. Whats wrong with being dynamic? isn't that what it takes to get a grip of this offense?
He can't play three positions, yet. Ideally one day he should be able to, but not now. Reread the above and let it marinate holmes. You got a bit to learn.. AR is a tweener forward, ie a tall man w partial skills of a front court player and a perimeter player. He's a 6'11'' guy w dribbling/ rebounding ability, who can't shoot consistently from midrange or 3, can't guard the post, has no low post game, fouls guys needlessly and is ridiculously turnover prone.
3. You haven't seen Randolph's jumpshot enough. You probably saw him take 10 jumpshots your entire life on live game play at MOST. Randolph has a solid mid range, and it won't be consistent if he's not getting consistent minutes nor he is comfortable with the offense. Thats obvious. But the dude has a jumper. Where as Balkman has no reliable jumper or even inconsistant jumper. He can hit a 3 from time to time. Whatever, thats not even that important. We need Randolph for his rebounding primarily. Everything else is just a gift.
I've seen his jumper plenty. I've been saying since the summer when the trade went down that he had no jumper and this remains the case. Wishful thinking doesn't equal the reality. HE CAN'T SHOOT ADEQUATELY. If he had a jumper or something resembling shot selection even, he would be useful to the team and it would show on the court w him getting some burn. Unfortunately that has not proved to be the case just yet. Wrong yet again..We all know Mike D loves a good knock down shooter. AR is not one of those yet.
AR's production is similar to Marcus Camby. Do your research and you will be granted permission to post in this thread again.
Dude, Camby's mid range isn't Boozer or Horford status, he's okay from there. Don't overrate him now, and Camby isn't even that great of a post defender, he's an excellent weak side help defender, probably the best in the decade. Randolph's potential to obtainable to Camby status, easily. Especially since he posted an 18 PER last, probably higher than anything Camby has posted in his career. Do the research for me, thats your homework for tonight.
This from the guy who recently said Camby was a borderline HOFer lol. I'm not overrating Camby i've left that to you. You did fine.. All I'm saying is that your doing Camby an injustice by comparing him to AR. He'd prolly want to smack you upside the head for your half-retardedness. WelcometoNYC was right on about you. :invisible:
Darko and Nate didn't get minutes either...both guys are huge
(I wouldn't say huge, moderate/ average maybe slowdown) contributors to their squads. I don't think its about that, and trading him would be the worst possible idea right now. We gotta use our tools, not throw them away.
