I agree. Now it would be seen as a move motivated by hm playing poorly, which is a confidence downer. You could have done it before to "take the pressure off" of him and let him get into game shape.Quote:
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I agree. Now it would be seen as a move motivated by hm playing poorly, which is a confidence downer. You could have done it before to "take the pressure off" of him and let him get into game shape.Quote:
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Yup. It was hearing about Bosh' wanting to try out for us despite long odds that made me keen on drafting him.Quote:
Originally Posted by Glenn
Stuck averaging 10 points per game on 57% shooting over the last 7. I like the development. Seems as though he's not forcing it as much these days. 22 assists and only 5 turnovers during the same stretch as well.
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Seems to me guy just hits crazy-ass shots. Keep it up.
Ok, I am now comfortable.
This guy is awesome.
It looks like Stuc is developing nicely, and with any luck it doesn't have anything to do with Flip Saunders' input.
SWAMI WHY DID YOU HAVE TO GO AND BRING FLIP INTO THIS?
one minor observation: stuckey's starting to mimic tayshaun's annoying habit of putting his hands up to the refs whenever he feels he's been fouled.
I hate that. Quit crying and play the game. Get your ass back on defense and shut your mouth. I hate it when other teams do it and I hate it when we do it. Tay does it nearly every time he drives the lane and doesn't get an easy dunk.
^ Didn't get laid last night?
Another fine thread by Glenn ^_^
Time for another assessment from the hopefuls...
Piss on him.
I still hold faith, still a rookie scoring point guard who is making a pretty good effort to distribute first. I ain't mad about it.
Stuckey has been a little disappointing in my eyes. If I had to give him a grade it owuld be a C-. The reason that I say this is that he really looks to shoot first and rarely puts up nice assist numbers. If he was brought in as a SG this wouldn't be a problem but we need him to be our back up PG. I still see a lot of potential in him and think he was a good pick but wish that he made better decisions with the ball. I am hoping that this will come with experience. His defense is a little mediocre but this again will improve with experience.
If you guys could have anyone drafted after him instead, would you trade him in, and if so, for whom?
Sean Williams. Then deal Max or Amir for vet guard help.Quote:
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What about Splitter?
Nope.
no. Looking for help now.Quote:
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I wonder if Al Thornton dropped to us, we wouldve drafted him ahead of Stuckey.
Honestly, Stuckey's going to be a no one in the playoffs right at this rate. Al would've easily gave us 10 pts a night..or maybe even THADDEUS wouldve given us more consisten production..
My prediction: Stuckey doesn't see the floor much in the playoffs, scores about 20-25 a game with 6 assists per game in the summer league and restores faith before coming back looking like the same player he was this year.
You've got to remember he was the 15th overall pick, we're going to have some growing pains with someone taken around that spot. They're either going to come in ready to play in this league with little to no upside or they're going to come in and making mistakes but have the potential to eventually be something good in the league if they work hard.
What I'm really surprised about is how well AA has done for us this season. Did anyone expect that kind of production from a guy picked where he was?
He'd be riding the pine in favor of theo. [smilie=heatsmiley2:Quote:
Originally Posted by Cross
I think stuckey gets minutes. Regardless of his tayshaun moment of differing too much, he's a very solid ball handler and and is capable enough to keep the leads as long as we keep another semi-ball handler on the court with him. He seems to play much better when we run(as does Amir). Might be nice to push the ball up the court a lil more.
As much as I am disappointed in a lot of what I have seen from Stuckey, at least we can say, at this point, that there aren't 5 or 20 other guys that we would have rather drafted instead.
That's a positive.
He's solid for a 15th pick. What more could you expect? Our expectations got enlarged a bit when everyone kept talking about how "he'd go so much higher if there were a redo" and "he's really going to be an amazing player". Well, either way, he was the 15th pick in the draft, came out of a very small school (so he needed time to adjust), and he missed a big chunk of time because of injury to start the season. I think if he hadn't missed that time he'd be doing a bit better.
I'm surprised there are so many people here that have given up on Stuckey. He's a rookie who missed the first quarter of the season! You're absolutely right that he makes dumb, ROOKIE decisions from time to time. What did you want? Someone to come in and take Chauncey's minutes right away?
Maybe I'm being too easy on him, but I think he's been solid. He is young, quick as hell, but needs help on his basketball IQ. He's converting to PG, a position he's never played before this year. That's the toughest position to learn. There's a current Piston who took 5 years to learn the NBA PG position. Give it more than 50 games to decide that he wasn't worth the pick.
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"I agree with MoTown."
I'm pretty happy with what I've seen so far. It takes a while for most PG's to adjust to the NBA, and he wasn't even a true PG in college. I think he's coming along nicely.
I agree, i think he sees the floor well and most of where he messes up has more to do with youth than talent. If he keeps shooting and making his jumper, he'll get more accomplished offensively overall. I also think he'll be a top ten theft artist in a season or two and as long as Hunter is around to help his on the ball defense will improve(he already moves his feet very well and has the speed to stay in front of alot of PG's in this league).Quote:
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He also has good size and would benifit from some post up tips from Billups.
The FG% is the only disturbing part IMO. But, he's shot the ball well lately in all the game I've seen. He's shot %49 in March.
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im thrilled with stuckey. big, strong, and fast. i can work with that.
so what if his shooting is fairly lousy so far? that will come. he doesnt run the offense too well either, but then again he occassionally makes some real nice passes. defense some times he gets picked on, other times he makes the play.
these are growing pains rookies go through, made more noticeable because we play allstar calibre players on the court about 70% of the time, or more, for the last 4 years or so.
ill take the physical specimen any day of the week. he doesnt have one flaw that he isnt capable of improving upon, and thats what matters.
He's the man.
He's been very solid considering all of the factors.
1. He's a rookie on a veteran team that historically doesn't play rookies.
2. He's learning a new position (The toughest in the game).
3. He's coming off the injury.
You have to realize that he's not going to put up the numbers that he would otherwise (on a shitty team) with this group. The ball just isn't in his hands enough. He may be our PG, but his assist numbers will automatically be knocked down due to the fact that almost all of Flip's sets with a rook running the point call for the "stand-in" PG to bring the ball up and hand it off to Rip or Tayshaun. Flip has an inherent lack of trust that maybe a rook could get us some better scoring opportunities on occasion than Rip and Tayshaun going one-on-one on the wings for 20 footers.
We won't see the real Rodney until Joe blows this team up I'm afraid. Until then, this version is a solid backup.
I haven't seen one thing besides his ability to rebound his own misses that I would say sets him apart. Those PHO jumpers were wide open. Wide. I mean, hey, great, gotta get those, but I would expect Drew Gooden to hit those, let alone my scoring combo guard. That teams are laying off him, inviting him to shoot, is not a good thing.
I don't know who was hyping him to be a superstar, by the way.
The Frenchman?