Post#6 » by montestewart » Tue Feb 2, 2010 4:21 pm
Alright, keep it open, but I'll use it to argue against Jamison as the goat. A previous poster used Butler's 6-11 FG going into the 4th quarter combined with Jamison's 2-17 FG during the game to support Jamison somehow being the cause of the Wizards 4th quarter collapse. Jamison and Butler were both 0-4 FGs in the 4th quarter. For the game, Jamison had a -4 differential, Butler a -14, Jamison had 1 TO, Butler 6.
Jamison missed some close in gimmes against the Knicks, and maybe thought he should move away from the basket more against the substantial Celtic interior defense. Whatever, his game is primarily get the ball and try and score, inside or outside, and his game is generally facilitated by others (Miller, Butler, Boykins, etc.) knowing he will likely try and score if given the ball. Saunders knows this too, and likely left him in hoping he'd snap out of it on any shot. Focusing on that easy stat, 2-17, give a distorted view of what happened.
Boston shut the Wizards down in the 4th, when they shot 2-18 FG as a team. Singling out Jamison's 2-17 when it hadn't hurt the team in the first three quarters and was no worse than the rest of the team in the 4th (and his defense kept us in the game in the first half) is an inaccurate portrayal relying on one lousy stat from a box score.
GOTG: Wizards lack of a decent penetrator. Arenas?
