Comments on: Will Rodney Stuckey be the 82nd best player in the league in 2015?

By: tarsier

tarsier — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 16:20:58 +0000

I too expect Stuckey to get at least somewhat better yet. but borderline all-star even may be pushing it. With Wade, Williams, Rose, Wall, Rondo, Johnson, Allen, and Irving even in the relatively weak east, how would Stuckey make a serious push for an all-star bid? (Johnson and Allen can only be expected to contend for those spots for maybe two more years, but Irving is more or less a place holder for the young guys because we don’t know which of them will break out.)

By: qm22

qm22 — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 03:35:28 +0000

Here is a CRAZY alternative scenario where instead of staying remarkably the same Stuckey becomes the 5′th most productive SG in the NBA.
Crazy rationale:
1. Stuckey eventually moves to SG.
2. Frank is a better coach than Kuester and does not play Stuckey in a antithetical role to his strengths where he (slowly) force feeds shot clock burning isolations half the posessions. There is a secondary CRAZY potential that Frank will get more out of his players than the recent HC who feuded with the majority of his players.
3. Monroe and other future Pistons big men (who have more inside finishing capability than Ben Wallace and the Charlie V of recent years) bail out Stuckey when he penetrates and is collapsed on by multiple defenders, turning what were often turnovers and unfavorable shots into assists.
4. Stuckey works on his game and makes modest improvements in one or two areas such as finishing at the rim or shooting from mid or long range.
The cumulative effects would be enough to make him a top 5-10 SG in the league by last years standards. If he is really driven and improves more than that he is an all star/borderline all star player in the near future.
I would also contend that Stuckey has been improving much more than his numbers indicate. Statistically he looks marginally better than he did in his rookie year but his team situation decreased drastically since then. It has certainly been a long time but we have yet to really see what Stuckey can do in his prime or what he can do as he is now but on a good/competent team.

By: tarsier

tarsier — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 21:24:24 +0000

mediocre=decent Decent has better connotations so maybe you can call mediocre 35-40 wins and decent 40-45 wins, but close enough. And there is no basis to predict really anything for any team in 2015. Your safest bet for most teams will be about 40 wins. Because that is the average. And 4 years can create a complete overhaul of power. Only a few like the Thunder can be predicted to still be real good then.

By: Adrià

Adrià — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 20:35:00 +0000

OK, I think this list by now it’s a funny think. It helps us to know some young players and stadistics we didn’t realized that were there. But the problem will arrive at the top spots. Who do you think it will be the best player in 2015? Kevin Durant, Lebron James, Derrick Rose, Chris Paul, Dwight Howard, Blake Griffin?
Now it’s allright, it gives us future prespective, but the top 5 will cause a lot of controversial. It would be more useful a list in orther from worse to better of the 30 teams of the NBA in the 2015. That’d be cool.

By: Laser

Laser — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 20:32:06 +0000

i gotta say, as a fella with no faith whatsoever in joe dumars and who shits on this team like it’s my job, the notion that there’s any good reason to believe this team will be mediocre in 2015 is absurd on its face. the only piston we have under contract through 2015 is greg monroe (and likely brandon knight, but he’s not currently reflected on the books at hoopshype.com), so nobody who expects to be taken seriously would bother to project what the roster will look like.

assuming joe dumars doesn’t sell the future to save face (for example, unloading rip along with a hefty tax), the thing that’s killing this team are horrendous contracts that all expire by 2014. maybe this isn’t a safe assumption, but if dumars really has a three year window to fix this atrocity, this should be a perfectly decent team. there isn’t a reason on earth it shouldn’t be.

By: tarsier

tarsier — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 19:27:56 +0000

Although, if you believe Stuckey is what he is at this point, then there is really no reason to re-sign him. He will command a salary at least commensurate with his current level.

By: tarsier

tarsier — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 19:26:00 +0000

Well how else would he be able to point out your ignorance?
jk :)

By: Patrick Hayes

Patrick Hayes — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 18:18:16 +0000

And yet here you are, reading what we have to say every day.

By: Jodi Jezz

Jodi Jezz — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 18:08:57 +0000

Hahaha, dont listen to these writers! They don’t know the game of basketball…

By: Patrick Hayes

Patrick Hayes — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 16:22:18 +0000

They didn’t leave him off the list, they’ve only unveiled Nos. 82-100 so far. I think Monroe will finish much higher in this list.