dockingsched wrote:Huertas actuality played relatively well and was probably better than anyone else at running the offense. He most definitely deserved every minute Calderon got and deserved some more minutes that went to players like Clarkson.
There’s really no justification for Calderon getting on the court ahead of him so he’s right to be upset confused as to why that happened.
Huertas was a very crafty passer and thinker. I remember a steal at ORL where he stood there with his hands on his hips during an inbounds and then quickly bolted to steal the ball as it was casually tossed in and casually received by the guy inbounds. Sounds less of a big deal in text, but you rarely see a guy even bother to outwit two casual inbounding opps like that. Little plays like that he would frequently do in order to mitigate his many physical weaknesses. Alas, the issue is defense. If it weren't, we woulda signed Matt Thomas after being Kerresque from the arc in July. Matter of fact, they tried a Matt Thomas years back named Mike Penberthy. People kept calling him "the best shooter I've ever seen". He was quite fooling to the eye even though his percentage didn't meet Kerr's standards, but Phil started him in Nov, played him less in Dec, played him in final secs of blowouts in Jan, and he went back to working at the FedEx center after that. You'd better be an absolutely killer passer and/or a killer shooter at all their relative sizes to stick in the NBA (see Steve Nash, a defensive turnstyle, but made up for it big time). Much as Marcelo should've been nicknamed Scrappy Coco, he couldn't pay for his existence on the roster. It's like when laying hens can no longer squeeze enough eggs to pay for their food and water, they're sent off to become pot pie cubes.
That's the crafty steal there, found it:
https://youtu.be/PZPcMghH6ys?t=138
but lets not jump off the ledge here. I stopped reading once he started rambling about why he's not playing. I'm sure every 12th man on the bench has a similar explanation to why he's collecting splinters
