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Why is everyone down on Shawne Williams

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Why is everyone down on Shawne Williams 

Post#1 » by kevinbs » Thu Nov 7, 2013 2:15 am

His play has actually been decent inspire of him playing out of position. Every game he is pulled at the six minute mark and can not get into rhythm. Everybody has missed shots. He deserves minutes, maybe not starting. But he deserves minutes.
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Re: Why is everyone down on Shawne Williams 

Post#2 » by AI » Thu Nov 7, 2013 6:16 am

Because Jordan Hill deserves the playing time that Shawne Williams is depriving him of. Shawne isn't that bad of a player, it's just annoying when he's taking PT from players who can actually help us win games. The rotations are still being experimented, however, and I expect any of the Shawne "hate" to die down once the rotations are set in stone and he is no longer starting.
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Re: Why is everyone down on Shawne Williams 

Post#3 » by tugs » Thu Nov 7, 2013 6:26 am

I don't hate Williams. I just prefer someone else to get his starters minutes.
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Re: Why is everyone down on Shawne Williams 

Post#4 » by ctorres » Thu Nov 7, 2013 6:59 pm

Shawne Williams is not playing out of position. He's more of a power forward than small forward. He's in a similar mold as to Tim Thomas, Cliff Robinson, Earl Clark, Antawn Jamison, those types.

He needs to just get his 3PT FG percentage up a little bit. If he shoots it above 33% then he's not a liability on the floor and serves his purpose as a floor spacer for Gasol.
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Re: Why is everyone down on Shawne Williams 

Post#5 » by Michael Lucky » Thu Nov 7, 2013 7:27 pm

I don't hate him, he's simply taking minutes from better players which is the problem.
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Re: Why is everyone down on Shawne Williams 

Post#6 » by Desiderium » Fri Nov 8, 2013 3:00 am

No room. sorry

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