Ariza started 7 games last year? does that make him a starter? 8pts and 4 rebounds 1 steal 0.3 blocks and 1 assist per game? so starter what??? He is a good perimeter defender, thats about it. Everything else, rebounding and scoring, He's got a lot to work on, making him a project. When you don't have a complete game, it's not called a starter, its called a project. I can remember trevor being benched several times last season for lack of focus and intesity, that he had when he was with us. SO he need work even on the things he's good at.
Frye one dimensional at best? so his rebounding,posting, shooting, defense, which includes some shot blocking all equals one dimension? so what does ariza have a quarter of a dimension? Frye's size and shooting skills will allow him to be a sucessfull avg NBA player, maybe a role player, with the potential for greatness, potential to be more than a role player. As compared to ariza, who has potential to be a great role player. My point, you have someone who is a level above, the other. Ariza, we found balkman right away, we won't find another guy like frye so easily.
Most Orlando Magic fans want Ariza to start, he was their best bench player. Lets not forget how bad of a coach Brian Hill is, dude was a fool.
Ariza is an excellent athlete with a lot of intagibles. He's a great perimeter defender, which is very important to have on your team. He can also help defend and get rebounds. He's at his best on the fastbreak, where he can make a lot of acrobatic plays.
Ariza isn't a PROJECT. Projects are prospects with a lot of question marks. Ariza already answered his doubters and proved them wrong. Ariza can be a productive NBA player when minutes are given, and especially the minutes he earned as a Knick and as a Magic.
You bringing up Ariza's slump as a Knick doesn't prove anything. Ariza mostly played great basketball for the Knicks. Ariza and Kurt Thomas was our defense basically, where everyone slacked off.
Ariza shoots 53% FG, 10% higher than Channing Frye, and Ariza is a perimeter player. Plus, Ariza is a better player overall. All you can say Frye has over Ariza is size(that Frye doesn't use), softness, and a jumpshot.
Frye sucks at rebounding and gets out rebounded consistently. Fuck the stats. You're a Knick fan, you should at least know what Frye is good at and bad at. You lost mad Knick points for saying Frye can defend, rebound and block shots. Why would you name his weaknesses as his strength? Thats like saying Curry can pass or Jerome James can shoot threes. To top it all of; you said Channing Frye has potential for greatness :teeth:. Frye has been mediocre at best. When he isn't shooting the ball well, what did he really do for us? Don't you remember when Frye was shooting 37% as a starter? Dude was so bad, even Frye fans turned on him.
You killed your agrument by saying Frye can be a great role player and Ariza is going to be a great role player. You really have no argument here, you're just throwing words out and scrambling them around.
You're not making any sense. Not every player in the NBA has a complete game. According to your theory then, Jamal Crawford and Eddy Curry must be projects since they don't have complete games? I dislike the way both of these guys play, but I'm not stupid enough to say they're projects. Research and go back to learning about draft terms before you use them here. Project is totally the wrong word, and I think you're trying to use another one you couldn't think of.
Frye averaged around 9 ppg as a starter and 5 rebounds in about 30 minutes. He shot 43%, thats TERRIBLE for a PF. He didn't average a block plus got manned by every guy he defended, which really hurt our defense cause Curry was a poor defender also. Channing Frye was totally useless last season. I would of been more pleased just see Balkman take all his minutes, cause Frye didn't really provide nothing last season, especially when his shooting was off.
Plus, we gave up a huge expiring contract, PLUS Ariza for a bum like Francis only. We got buttraped on that dead.
When we traded Frye atleast we got Randolph (You're wrong once again; Knicks can replace Frye with someone who can shoot better, rebounds, scores in the post, is more athletic, quicker and bigger.) and expiring contracts.