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Compare our bench to the Thunder and Heat

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Re: Compare our bench to the Thunder and Heat 

Post#21 » by Edrees » Sun Oct 7, 2012 8:48 am

kamelion4291 wrote:
lodom7 wrote:
kamelion4291 wrote:Few things:

Joel Anthony is probably the backup center behind Bosh. I can't see anybody else getting minutes there on a regular basis.

Haslem isn't a center. He's almost exclusively a power forward. He's also easily the best PF on either bench. Either Haslem will start at PF or Lewis will.


Haslem is for sure not easily the best 4 on either bench, he was terrible last year (6 and 6 on 45% shooting). Jamison is easily a better player and fit then Haslem and the same can be said about Jordan Hill if you want to consider him a 4.


Jodie Meeks is nowhere close to Ray Allen as a player.


If you want to compare Meeks to the Ray Allen of 4 years ago then yes. But this is a Ray Allen who is playing on sketchy ankles and got sent to the bench in favor of Avery Bradley last year. Meeks is also an underrated defender so I wouldn't expect to see Ray light up Meeks.


You're right. Let's compare the Haslem who had a terrible year last season and not the one who has been consistent every other year of his career. And teams I guess were lining up to sign Jodie Meeks. Oh wait, the veteran's minimum? Yeah ok, he's clearly better than a guy like Ray Allen who was offered 2 years 12 million for a reason. That's not an unbiased opinion or anything...


If we're gonna use Haslem from three years ago, can we compare Kobe and Lebron by using Kobe of 3 years ago too? Haslem hasn't played well in three years dude. He had a **** year last year, and he was out the entire year the year before. He's on the major decline. Three years is a long time. Blake was good three years ago too.
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Re: Compare our bench to the Thunder and Heat 

Post#22 » by lodom7 » Sun Oct 7, 2012 5:14 pm

kamelion4291 wrote:
You're right. Let's compare the Haslem who had a terrible year last season and not the one who has been consistent every other year of his career. And teams I guess were lining up to sign Jodie Meeks. Oh wait, the veteran's minimum? Yeah ok, he's clearly better than a guy like Ray Allen who was offered 2 years 12 million for a reason. That's not an unbiased opinion or anything...


Haslem has been declining stat wise for some years now, what makes you think he will play better next year, will he be in a better situation, doubt it, he will likely play more center with the Heat going small so often. Regarding Allen, I'm assuming you didn't watch him average 10 points a game on 40% fg% and 30% 3pt% in the playoffs last year. Allen was pretty awful late in the season and I'm not saying Meeks is a better player but Ray Allen isn't the same player he was 2 years ago.
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Re: Compare our bench to the Thunder and Heat 

Post#23 » by Stebo_SSK » Sun Oct 7, 2012 5:19 pm

DEEP3CL wrote:
Aki wrote:if we sign hibachi, we're sweet.
You gotta be joking right ? That fool is so done.


Just let it go DEEP its useless trying to explain this to guys that dont watch any ball outside of the Lakers and play NBA2k and think they can pick and plug any player for success. The problem with Blake isnt that he's horrible its that he's been the quasi starter for this team since he was signed and isnt a starting quality player. He will be good for us off the bench. Blake has never really been a full time bench guy with LA.
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Re: Compare our bench to the Thunder and Heat 

Post#24 » by dho4ever » Mon Oct 8, 2012 1:33 pm

Terrible comparison. Ray Allen came back from ankle injury. Unless you assume that his ankles will always be injured...
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Re: Compare our bench to the Thunder and Heat 

Post#25 » by andrewww » Wed Oct 10, 2012 12:10 am

if mike brown was able to comprehend proper rotations and which players work well with others, it's not hard to tell that ideally the backups from 1 thru 5 are: blake/meeks/CDR or ebanks/jamison/hill.

but since it's mike brown... :s

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