On Nov 8, 10:31 am, JEK <mcre
...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 6, 4:41 pm, Noah <dontsendmeyers
...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Don't offend Oakley or anyone's memories of him by comparing him to
> > David "swiss cheese D" Lee.
> > Anyone can get 20-10 if no one else on the team is bothering to go for
> > a rebound or tries hard to get a shot.
> I don't buy it that not having your teammates going for the rebound
> makes it easier. It just means no one else is blocking out. And if
> rebounding were that easy on bad team, Jeffries would have been doing
> a much better job of it. Playing on a bad team doesn't put 10+
> rebounds in your hands and 16 pts on the board while shooting at 55%.
> I don't want to go into a big defense of David since I don't want to
> pretend to know what he's capable of on a better team. Of course he's
> nowhere near the defender that Oak was, but that aside, Oak never
> averaged 15 pts a game in his career. And granted that Oak played next
> to Ewing, but in only 4 of his 10 season with the Knicks did Oak
> average double digit rebounds.
> Maybe Lee's agent tried to sell him for more than he was worth and he
> got no takers (though it's hard to know when guys like Hughes and
> Curry are pulling down > $10M a year). That's what his agent is
> supposed to do. What I don't understand is why everyone pounding on
> the guys for not being the exact player they want him to be. David has
> skills, and he's a workman player who has demonstrably improved year
> to year. He has all the qualities to be a fan favorite but has turned
> into something of a lightening rod for fan's dissatisfaction.
> There are plenty of guys who blossom on the right team and I'd be
> excited to see what Lee can do playing along side some quality
> teammates - if he ever gets any.
Lee will only ever be a success if he plays along side someone like
Howard or Duncan, Big men who have the ability to cover for his
defensive deficiencies. On the Knicks, Lee just is put into a role
that #1, he is not suited for and #2 that he is physically not able to
handle.
What is most annoying about this whole thing is Lee had to know if he
was coming back to this team and his competition was going to be
career under performer Darko, he was going to be playing the 5 at some
point and that meant concentrating on getting stronger and hussling on
D. All he is doing is firing up shots from everyplace on O and getting
lost on D. This is more of an effort to sell himself to another team
after what was a disappointing FA tour than to try to be part of a
winning system.
This also isn't all Lee's fault (get ready Styfo) I blame a lot of
this on D for putting him out there. I mean Lee is our C and Jefferies
is our PF. How the Hell can you play any form of tough D with those
two in the front court.
Lastly, why isn't Hill getting more minutes, I mean wtf is he going to
learn from watching these two.
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