Is Jamal Crawford "Player X"?

Jamal Crawford does not fit our system. He is also not capable of running a team, or guarding point guards.

Having Andris and Lee on the same team undoubtedly awards us more possessions on offense, but the idea is to maximize the potential of them. If you out-rebound the opposing team by 8, and Jamal puts up 5 missed FG’s out of those 8 extra possessions….then what good does having Andris and Lee down there for you really serve?

 A volume scorer is somebody who needs a lot of shots to paint an offensive masterpiece on a gamely basis. Monta is our Michelangelo. Coppola and Kubrick have never shared a set. The canvas is not big enough for two scoring artists to devise the offensive conjecture, while collectively and effectively involving other teammates in the game, keeping their rhythm. Especially when one of these “artists” only ability is to shoot – a lot. Between Jamal, Monta, and Curry…how many shots do you expect to go around them, especially when Jamal has proved to be most valued as a volume scorer? It’s absurd.

Jamal scored 50 twice. Have you heard of Tracy Murray? It sounds like you’re distributing the wealth of your credit to a guard who shoots an awful lot of outside jumpers, on a team who’s very identity centered around speeding up the pace of the game to allow as many attempts as possible. That is not our team anymore.

Smart seems to be on a program that suggests our squad should have the versatility of option, which would imply that we at some point slow the game down, and play more of a set, half-court style. This also implies that the game will slow down defensively as well. This means that we will be involved in a paradigm that requires a physical style of play. It is through this physical style that our offense is rewarded.

How can Jamal Crawford possibly begin be able to make this trade off in convicting fashion? Aren’t we going through this very problem with Curry right now? Wasn’t that the main beef people had with the Curry-Ellis tandem, in the first place??

I’m starting to get very annoyed with Curry’s inability to stay in front of his man. I’ve served inanimate objects violent beat downs, and yelled at helpless animals because of this…And now you want Jamal Crawford and Curry guarding the two most offensively initiative positions in the game at the same place at the same time? That’s really what you want…

Listen to Ronald and you may learn something, still. You are the one who is turning a deaf ear. Reggie is a more valuable scorer than Jamal, for many reasons.

1. Reggie gets to the basket, gets to the line. I would not consider him a shooter. When the game slows down, which Smart is intentionally trying to teach our team to do, missed jump shots from long range often result in fast break points the other way. Guess who averages a large amount of missed jump shots from long range?

Jamal’s style is most effective off the ball, coming off screens. When he has the ball, it’s side to side – pull up.

Reggie is both effective off the ball because he has shooting touch from close to long-range, and his movement with the ball is vertical. You do not consistently draw fouls any other way, and drawing fouls plays into Smart’s design of slowing down the game.

2. Williams offense comes without the expense of ball movement, and he scores within the discipline of the playbook. It is common to see him score 15 points when you could’ve sworn that he only had 8. This is because he picks his spots, dribbles less, and gets to where he wants to be on the court.

When you dribble less, naturally, you leave more time on the shot clock. This increases your team’s chances of finding the correct shot and converting. Since Reggie is only one of the many scorers on the team, it is important that he is decisive and in correct position, otherwise he is disabling another capable scorer, and altogether blemishing his team’s chances to find a weakness in the defense. There is 18 seconds.

Since Jamal is a horrible defender, atrocious rebounder, and volume scorer, he will need the ball to extract any kind of value he has. This means that either we run isolation plays for him, or he will break up plays to create offense for himself. He over-dribbles, he shoots contested shots on a regular basis, he doesn’t move enough without the ball (it’s extremely hard work to do consistently…similar to defense) and he isn’t aggressive on the drive.

If our team lacked scorers, then Jamal would be a good option because he can create something out of nothing. We already have that something, we just need a player who can sustain it, and refine it. There is right and wrong Brit, obviously. “That’s foolish. You pick the one, right tool.”

Actually can see Jamals value if he is at about Morrows or CJ’s cost level and we used him like we did Morrow. It seems that is what you are saying here. Jamal was way overpriced for what he brings at least at this moment in his career. As a possible 2nd or mostly 3rd option when a spark in outside shooting is needed. We have had way too many games now without much outside scoring/scoring slumps and I am guessing that has been why you are thinking of Jamal.

We miss some quality that Jamal would provide?

Nonsense. We have that quality. We have it in Reggie.

There is nothing Jamal can do that Reggie can’t.

Sleepy, you know damn well that you […] like nothing more than telling someone in your particular style, why you think their views are idiotic

Haha. Presumptuous much? You have no idea what I like doing more than anything else. OK, I’ll tell you: what I like doing more than anything else is … dancing!

Serioustly, Brit, look in the mirror. I’m not sure there’s another poster on this board who spends a higher percentage of their time here sniping personally at other posters than you.

You explicitly insulted my intelligence earlier in this thread. You have no business telling anybody where the line is.

are calling the shots.