spaceballer wrote:mrknowitall215 wrote:BrotherDave wrote:Those brick hands caught Lance's passes just fine. You know, b/c he can actually pass instead of zipping balls at people's feet like a certain UConn guard.
Biyombo dropped plenty of Stephenson's passes too. Stephenson just happened to be so turnover prone elsewhere that it didn't hurt him to give Biyombo a whiff at it too. Indeed Stephenson was one of the few players that entrusted Biyombo's hands and Biyombo made a fair share of plays off those passes, but he still struggled in that aspect regardless of who threw him the ball
Doesn't matter. Asik was notorious for his "stone hands" with both the Bulls and Rockets. He was great at getting rebounds and passing out, but he was terrible at catching passes and had little offensive game. He caused the ball-handlers on the team, whether it was Lin or Harden, to routinely have to eat 1 or 2 turnovers a game due to Asik's stone hands dropping their passes. They kept feeding him in the hopes that he would develop, investing in the bigger role he was getting from his Bulls bench days, so they had to eat the turnovers caused by Asik's stone hands.
Yet, despite Asik's stone hands, he turned into a double double machine from being fed by Lin on P&R's.
If Lin could turn stone hands Asik into scoring double digits, despite the fact that Harden and Lin had to average a couple of turnovers every single game as a result of Asik dropping their passes, I'm sure Lin could have done the same to increase Biyombo's scoring by feeding him in P&R's.
Stone hands Asik or Brick Hands Biyombo makes no difference. If they can run the P&R, they'll get fed.
I watched enough of Asik on the Bulls to know that he had better hands then Biyombo. This is not to denounce Biyombo since I'm one of his bigger advocates on this board, but it was a known fact that he had a hard time catching passes and even when he did he wasn't the best at finishing unless there wasn't much of any traffic. Force feeding Biyombo just to try to attempt to get him over double digits scoring wasn't and isn't going to help any team's offense. These pro-Biyombo posters can try to say otherwise, but that's what it was. Ben Wallace in his prime always had great hands to catch the ball and the Pistons' players knew that he wasn't offensively aware so they knew not to pass him the ball much or even attempt to run plays for him, and this is a similar case with Biyombo even though I think he could be better than Wallace offensively
The moral of my previous post by mentioning Stephenson being a willing participant to pass Biyombo the ball is that it's not going to help a offense get over the threshold. Ignorance is bliss in this scenario
