Hal14 wrote:celticgreenie wrote:I have a feeling Brad might over value Hauser like he did with Smart.
Last season during training camp there were two opposing camps about the value of Lonnie Walker. I think coming off a championship there was hubris. He could have diversified our offense just enough (he's a walking bucket) so we don't blow those two big leads against the Knicks. He was a good playoff performer for the Lakers when they beat the Warriors a couple seasons ago.
Oh god, not the Lonnie Walker stuff again.
If he was so good for the lakers in the playoffs, why didn't they bring him back? Why didn't the spurs want him anymore before that? Why didn't the nets bring him back after that? Why did no NBA team offer him a standard contract all offseason last year so he had to go play overseas? Why aren't the Sixers bringing him back now?
He's just not that good. Streaky shooter. Only a scorer (doesn't pass, rebound, defend, or set screens) yet he's been well below league average TS% in every year of his career.
With Westbrook trade and playing time crunch, there wasn't enough minutes so he opted to head for a bigger role in Brooklyn. Spurs wanted to rebuild and once again wanted a larger role so he asked them to rescind his qualifying offer. So these two incidences earlier in his career showed he wasn't ready for a larger role, but that doesn't mean he can't play a smaller yet valuable role off the bench. The Sixers backcourt is incredibly crowded.
Our bench lacked any kind of scoring during the first 2 pivotal games of Knicks series except for Game 1 in which PP put up 13 points. Hauser injured his ankle in Game 1 and only played 4 minutes and didn't play at all during Game 2 due to the injury. Having someone like Walker come in place of Hauser could have kept the Celtics better afloat to withstand the Knicks runs.
