Stanley Johnson

[Snakebites]

I know they never really played the same position, but he kind of reminds me of Rodney Stuckey. Absolutely zero touch with the ball and the defensive lapses completely erase any on-ball tenacity exhibited once a week.

Or I could be completely off base and just wanted an excuse to bitch about watching Stuckey turning gimme layups into fastballs off the backboard right back into the defenses waiting hands for a fast break opportunity. Over. And over. And over again.

Stuckey was better than Stanley, he just had higher expectations. He was supposed to replace Chauncey Billups and he peaked as a guy who might have been able to be the third guard on a marginal team.

[hippesthippo]

I know they never really played the same position, but he kind of reminds me of Rodney Stuckey. Absolutely zero touch with the ball and the defensive lapses completely erase any on-ball tenacity exhibited once a week.

Or I could be completely off base and just wanted an excuse to bitch about watching Stuckey turning gimme layups into fastballs off the backboard right back into the defenses waiting hands for a fast break opportunity. Over. And over. And over again.

Stuckey was better than Stanley, he just had higher expectations. He was supposed to replace Chauncey Billups and he peaked as a guy who might have been able to be the third guard on a marginal team.

The early comparisons drawing Stuckey to Dwanye Wade certainly didn't help. Laughable. Apologies for getting off topic.

Back to Stanley; he's a player who needs the ball in his hands in order to do anything on offense. Unfortunately, his skills as a lead guard/ballhandler simply aren't good enough at the NBA level to justify the usage.

If he could just to learn to be a catch-and-shoot guy, I think he does have the ability to succeed on straight line drives against scrambled defenses. I've long since tired of waiting for that to happen. Raptors fans likely will too if they haven't already.