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And he will get abuse once again by Billups, unless Stan, will put Mo Evans on Chauncey, which will be open season for Hamilton, God help us!!!!!!!!!!!! Jameer is such defensive liability....... :pray:
Hello.....That's what they did most of the game the other night when they beat Detroit. For the most part, Bogans or Evans were guarding Billups.
So if the Magic lose tonight and Jameer doesn't play, what will that mean? And if they lose Sunday and Jameer doesn't play, what does that mean? Personally, I think Jameer should stay out tonight and even Sunday if he's not feeling 100 percent yet. He needs to get healthy so that he will stay healthy for as much of the rest of the season as possible.
I say that even though there have been some things that have happened while he's been out that have been unsettling. In the game against Portland, there was a point when Carlos was playing PG when the entire offense was standing there watching Carlos dribble and finally Hedo threw his arms up in the air like, "What the hell are we doing?'' And then Arroyo took a shot because the shot clock was almost down to zero.
And then there was the game -- it might have been the same one -- when Carlos had zero assists.
There's been decidedly fewer alley oops while Jameer has been out, too -- and more missed ones. I've also noticed that they have had more home games lately and mostly capitalized on that. And I'm sure that the absence of Jameer is why Hedo has played better the past couple games (it's not that he was sick before that or anything) and why Rashard suddenly has been so much more aggressive. It's why Brian Cook suddenly is contributing, too, when he wasn't playing at all before. Yep, all that is because Jameer hasn't played.
Sure you can trade Jameer. And then Carlos and Keyon can leave in free agency, and you don't have a single point guard and not any significant money to go out and get one. You also would be trading the guy whose teammates elected him a captain, which means they respect him quite a bit. Which means you could set off a chemistry disaster the proportions of which you have no idea.
For all the trades we like to make on this board, the bottom line is that we have no idea what the relationships -- on the court and off -- are like. That's why I think you have to leave this sort of stuff to the team execs -- the coaches and the GMs.
For as much as you like to hate on Otis and tell everyone how clueless he is, he has put together a team that has one of the best records in the NBA even though most people would not look at their roster and say it's as talented as New Jersey's or even New York's, neither of which currently has one of the best records in the league. You could make a move that would have the chemistry-destroying nature that the Nets did when that ticked off Jason Kidd because they let Kenyon Martin go to the Denver Nuggets. If you'll notice, there have been rumors ever since then that Kidd wants out and that he will be traded. The GMs and coaches do know these guys and the relationships between them and who is important to what on the team. Do you guys think of any of this stuff when you just starting throwing all these trades out there?
You can put together all-star teams of guys who look like they can play together and they can't play together at all or get along at all. Believe it or not, the people closest to the situation, in this case, probably do know more than we do, and personally, I'm for letting them work it out instead of trying to create all this divisiveness on the same subjects on almost a daily basis. I'm sure there are reasons for their decisions. Otis has proved to us in the past that he would part ways with guys who he was fond of -- DeShawn and Trevor -- if he believed that he was making a move that would help the team in the end. I don't know him from Adam, but he definitely has his reasons for the moves he makes. And Van Gundy seems to have a pretty good pulse on this team, too, and I'm sure he will have his say moving forward.
