JellyRolling wrote:ginobiliflops wrote:JellyRolling wrote:
NOT....TUCKER'S.....FAULT...HE..WAS......PUT...IN...A....BAD.......SITUATION....BY....KNIGHTS....STUPID....PASS....WHY...IS.......EVERYTHING. ........TUCKER'S..............FAULT?...........WHY::::::?
HE..... STILL...... HAD........... 5 SECONDS........ TO DO SOMETHING........... WITH...... THE BALL.... WHY... ARE... WE... TYPING.... LIKE.... THIS? ..........WHY?
BECAUSE..... THE. ....MAJORITY. .... OF.... FANS......HATE......MOTHERTUCKER.....AND....IT......MAKES....ME....WANT........TO......CRY......

I'll chime in as possibly the biggest Tucker critic on here. I don't hate Tucker--I just hate him for this team and wish he was on another team and that we had a 2nd rounder instead. He seems like a good guy, but his value to this team's potential future (2-4 years from now when our youngins hit their primes) is almost nonexistant.
Tucker is a 1 way 30+ year old on a rebuilding team who hustles but isn't a leader who will teach the younger players the way that Chandler and to an extent Price is. He will likely have little to no impact to the future success of the core of the team. Why keep him? He has more value to other teams than he does us. His contract is only partially guaranteed next year, and we're bringing Bogdan over also.
Also, the play in question is most definitely his fault. He got the ball with 5 seconds left with a guy closing too hard at him, and instead of attacking the closeout for an open mid range jumper or a layup, he pump faked, gyrated for 3 seconds, and then threw up a prayer without using his dribble. He is offensively inept, and far from an NBA caliber player on that end. If you're going to praise his defense, you have to tell the full story of his offense, which is just truly awful. When the defense closes, Bledsoe is supposed to make that pass. The offensive player, and even bad NBA players, know to drive when help goes for a hard closeout. It's basketball 101.