"It meant a lot to me," Van Gundy said. "It meant a lot to me what everybody had to say, but Caron was the final piece. You can do all the intelligence you want, but you don't know anybody that's been in the locker room with a guy and Caron had been in the locker room with him. He's been in the locker room here and a lot of other places, so he knows good from bad and he also knows me and what I'm going to like and not like. So it meant a lot when he said he what he thought of him as a player and what he thought of him as a worker. It really pushed me over the top."
"I told (Van Gundy) all the pluses, because there wasn't any minus," Butler said. "I said he'd be a great addition. He's a guy that can get into the paint. He's definitely got, not a star mentality, but superstar potential. He can really help us. He brings a different feel to the court."Butler saw Jackson battle Russell Westbrook in Thunder practices and knew he was ready for a broader role, just as he saw another young point guard push a superstar daily at a previous NBA stop.
"I saw that with Eric Bledsoe when we were in L.A., same type of thing," he said. "Chris Paul was challenging him night in, night out. Chris Paul, one of the best guards of our generation, and Eric was holding his own, so I knew he would prosper in that Phoenix situation and I see the same thing happening here for Reggie."
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But yes, If I have to choose, it's Jackson.