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In college, Redick was a superstar who operated mostly as a long-range sniper, rarely looking to create for others. As he saw more and more floor time in Orlando, he began to be used increasingly as a secondary ball handler — running the pick-and-roll with Dwight Howard or Ryan Anderson after receiving a kickout pass from the likes of Jameer Nelson. His per-36 minutes assist totals, as well as his assist percentage, rose with each passing year (with the exception of the 2010-11 campaign, when he battled injury issues), to the point where he assisted on 20 percent of teammate baskets during the 2012-13 season, a number matched or exceeded by only 15 other non–point guards.
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Doc Rivers, Blake Griffin, and Chris Paul have all sung his praises over the last year, and Redick was singled him out by Stan Van Gundy at the Sloan Sports Analytics Conference in 2013 as a player who could always be counted on to make the correct rotation. That’s a far cry from the player who couldn’t get on the court early in his career because he was such a defensive liability.
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Redick’s become such a beacon for the Duke ethos that Coach K apparently showed an inspirational video that detailed Redick’s accomplishments and work ethic to the Blue Devils in the summer of 2012 to set an example for his players to follow.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrrD_Z2lbHw[/youtube]

QRich3 wrote:Yeah of course he'll win us games here and there, but both him and Collison are very detrimental to our defense and freelance too much to add anything to a team that is already the best offensive team in the game. We don't need another offensive option, we have enough with Paul and Blake's 2 man game surrounded by shooters and DJ's lob threat. If/when we need isolation plays Paul is good enough to get a decent shot as he's showed countless times. You start going out of the system for hero ball and all kind of variables get in.

I thought Crawford was the main culprit of us not being able to buy a bucket at the end of game 5, yeah Doc, Paul and the rest of them deserve some blame for enabling him, but he was the one waving people off to take horrible shots 1 vs 5.

Look at this graphic from Tom Haberstroh's report on the matter:



He had the highest usage of any Clipper this postseason, up to 30% in the series against OKC!! You cannot do that as a career 53 TS% when you have Paul and Blake just standing there staring at you. Crawford had a 47eFG% in the playoffs while the team as a whole shot 52%, a 5% drop is a lot. In the playoffs we scored 1.5 more points per 100 less with him off the floor than with him on. Also negative for the regular season. When we stay within the system we are elite, when we don't anything can happen.

I like the dude but he makes the team worse and he's possibly our best trade asset outside of Paul, Griffin and DJ. He needs to go.

chitownsports4ever wrote:Thats pretty unfair and biased considering when Crawford came in several times were struggling I mean really struggling offensively and the instance where he waived off Blake he had perkins on him at the three point line .

I watched those games and Crawford was the one who found Collison streaking to win that game 5. I also thought its tough to judge to judge jamal because it seems the team is quite willing to throw the ball to him with 6 seconds on the clock and ask him to create something out of nothing .

LACtdom wrote:I see our team as:

Paul/ Collison
JJ / Bullock (JJ playing 30+ minutes)
? / Barnes (starter if he can improve his 3PT shooting)
Griffin / ?
DJ / ?

I agree with whoever said that JJ should play bulk minutes to wear out whoever is guarding him. I've noticed that players like Harden and Wade when they defend heaps, their offense looks sluggish.