bucknersrevenge wrote:celticfan42487 wrote:strokerace wrote:Did you watch him play last year? He stunk as a playmaker. He had a good run for a few months 2 seasons ago going into the playoffs and obviously during the playoffs but beyond that he stinks. Any more than 5m a year on a short deal with a team option, I say let him go.
I did watch him. Last year and the year before. Did you see that 5:1 ass/to ratio last year as a starter? Or were your eyes deceiving you?
Look he's not an all-star. And the type of player he is, is most certainly not a Rondo.
He can play in Stevens system very well. Him, like all of the players left on our roster are nothing but role players.
They have no value if they're not playing with an MVP level player who can playmake for them. And outside of the context of playing with an MVP none of them honestly will be worth the money after their rookie contracts.
But in his role, in Steven's system, Terry does fantastic. He moves the ball and is unselfish. But he like Brown, like Tatum, like Smart, like Morris, like Theis, like Baynes, like Irving, like Horford can't honestly make plays for other players. It's one of his weaknesses. He can execute Steven's motion offense though and get system assists I guess we should call them (the open shots are a product of the motion offense as opposed to the players making the play for one another ala you would see say a Rubio do for his team mates)
If you're one of those people who are excited about Tatum now finally getting his shot to be the guy and are predicting All-Star teams and all that, there's no way you should want Terry Rozier anywhere near this team. You can pretty much book that Terry is gonna take shots away from Tatum. I think Terry strangely as it were does look for Jaylen. Maybe that's because they came off the bench together. Even Hayward might even fit next to Terry but Tatum is not going to fit. So long as Terry is here, Tatum will disappear again like last year. Whether he has the talent for it or not, Terry thinks he's a killer and Tatum just doesn't think that way. If they play together, Tatum's gonna park himself in the corner again and wait for a kickout.
I think you have a fundamental misunderstanding of why Tatum sucked last year.
Tatum sucked because the team turned into an ISO team and refused to play Steven's sytem.
There wasn't a lack of shots for Tatum to take. Tatum took 13 shots per game last year on a roster with a black hole in Irving. That shot total is about to shoot up.
We probably won't even have Irving or Horford. There's 0 concerns about shot totals. And looking at Rozier's playing style and the stats that literatlly back it up, he passes and moves the ball at will on offense when he has a stable role with actual minutes. He's never once been a ball hog on offense in the scenerio he'd be playing next year.
Now will Tatum shoot those shots at a good percentage? That's 100% on Tatum if he goes back to moving the ball when it's in his hands like he did playing next to Rozier all in the playoffs. Or if he stays in his current Melo role mindset and jacks off to Kobe Bryant mix tapes between games.
But shot availability will not be a concern on this team post Irving. There will be more than enough shots to go around, this won't be some loaded team.
