How Good Was Steve Blake?

[azcatz11]

if you like guys who score about 8 ppg on inefficient shooting and can't really defend much, but are considered "tough" (read: white), then he's your guy.

he was a good passer/playmaker i guess. nothing special but pretty good.

White guys are tough?

It’s not because he kept fighting people?

you must have missed the quotes around "tough". meaning i was being facetious. i think people say he's tough because he's a little white guy. the same way white guys always "play hard" and are "deceptively athletic" the fact is he wasn't any tougher than anybody else.

He's tough b/c of his background. He went to some pretty rough schools in Miami and was a legend down there (along with UD)

That's saying a lot for a small white kid...sorry if that's not politically correct

[monopoman]

Btw, I think the 6’3” listing on basketball-reference is very generous. I met him at a charity game in Portland, and I’m only 5’9”, and he didn’t seem nearly half a foot taller than me.

That measurement is probably in shoes or something, and likely they threw on a little bit. I have a feeling he is probably closer to 6'1" or just over that by a small bit. I am personally about 6'1" and I notice it when I meet someone who is say 6'4" or taller since at my height anyone who has a noticeable height over me is more noteworthy since it happens so rarely.

[Myth]

Btw, I think the 6’3” listing on basketball-reference is very generous. I met him at a charity game in Portland, and I’m only 5’9”, and he didn’t seem nearly half a foot taller than me.

That measurement is probably in shoes or something, and likely they threw on a little bit. I have a feeling he is probably closer to 6'1" or just over that by a small bit. I am personally about 6'1" and I notice it when I meet someone who is say 6'4" or taller since at my height anyone who has a noticeable height over me is more noteworthy since it happens so rarely.

Oh yeah, I know what you mean. I can still remember back in high school calling a guy out who was shorter than me (about 5’7”) who claimed to be 5’11” and without skipping a beat he simply said I must be 6’. Lol

[FluLikeSymptoms]

I don’t notice a person’s height unless they’re a half a foot shorter or a half-inch taller.

Steve Blake’s current equivalent would be, I don’t know, a mix of a worse Tyus Jones and a worse Ricky Rubio?