Who are you comparing him to for dribbling? Allen Iverson? I don’t get how you can call his dribbling awful. I would say it is above average throughout the entire league, but even so, stop exaggerating. It was never awful.

I really don’t care what he does in summer league or preseason games. They mean nothing, and the level of intensity in those games are around zero. Not a very good indicator of anything.

He got minutes at a time last year, there weren’t too many singular games you could make too much out of. He only really got extended minutes towards the end, when Nelson thought he was more ready, and he really didn’t do that bad. You are stating reasons why he is a bad player as facts, but a lot of them merely seem to be your own opinion. He’s not athletic? Then why is he playing in the NBA (if he was black would you say he was athletic?) Not a good shooter? How do you know? He hasn’t really played. But I remember Nelson saying last year that even during his worst days in practice, the one thing he could do well was shoot. And there aren’t many rookies who come in and play good defense. I agree that he didn’t play good defense. But by no means does that mean he can’t play defense. You are rushing to judgment, which is exactly what the original post in this diary was complaining about.

I’m not saying he won’t be a bust, but I’m not saying he will be one either. He hasn’t played. How do we know?

And I agree with whoever said it is a “what have you done for me lately” league. I remember last year after Oden got injured there were people calling him a bust. Do they not realize he is a year away from playing? What if he succeeds this year, won’t they feel a little stupid about their premature call? I’m not predicting Oden’s or Belinelli’s future, just give them a goddamn chance.

Also, shouldn’t you be taking out your anger on people who hype the guy up instead of the guy himself?

because if you think Marco blows, you are a natural born soccer player or something ridiculous. His ballhandling is amazingly improved.

Clearly you watched about 32 seconds of summerleague because he killed it in summerleague distributing the ball like Magic Johnson with his MULTIPLE no look passes. Did you see those? How about the fast breaks that he made clear decisions to give up his body and take it to the hole, or back it out and hit the trailing big man.

Man that guy sucks. How can you complain about a guy turning over the ball too much when he plays like 5 minutes per game very 12 games?

Your analysis is not forbidden, but it has been rejected. NEXT

There was OPEN PRACTICE today? I never even heard anything about an open practice, I was hella wondering if the Warriors would have one this offseason and I thought they didn’t. I remember last year’s open practice, Belinelli did a 360 dunk and Baron had all the rookies doing the Soulja Boy, hah.

But yeah, I agree. Let Belinelli play against a Kobe or a Wade, and it will teach him a lesson to STEP HIS GAME UP even more. Playing against real competition is the way to learn; when I was in 7th grade, I never got better playing against Elementary kids, I only got better playing against the HS players at my park and at the gym. And it’s crazy, cause it actually helped me gain a ton of inches on my vertical, having to jump hella high in order to grab boards over tall players. But yeah enough about me back in the days, lol.