snaquille oatmeal wrote:I was probably the only one here that had reservations about him at the time he was here.
not only you
IMHO, critter has the flash but didnt have the substance
probably suffered from playing behind fish and farmar to the extent that every time he stepped on the court he tried way too hard, way too much and ended up turning the ball over a lot or taking ill-advised shots
he was only played limited minutes because phil knew what the FO was doing, and he had to dangle just enough carrot so that the grizzlies (or anyone really) would bite when time came around to make the big trade and just few enough minutes that scouts couldnt tell what his weaknesses were
from his very first game in summer league i knew he was going to be trade bait, appeasing kobe wouldve taken much much more, grizzlies were asking for one of farmar or crittenton, lakers sucked it in and stuck with the UCLA recruit instead
in fact grizzlies asked for hell of a lot from the lakers, they also wanted marc gasol + sun yue, but we negotiated sun out of the trade
critter would make a decent PG backup if he ever started playing team ball instead of trying to emulate starbury/francis PG ballhogging style
my 2 cents of him anyway...
