Comments on: Vincent Goodwill: Rodney Stuckey’s inactivation ‘seems like’ it stemmed from ‘something verbal at Sat practice’

By: Ozzie-Moto

Ozzie-Moto — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 17:28:21 +0000

For what ever reason J Dumars doesn’t believe in “point” guards and “shooting” guards just guards. I’m guessing that he thinks that all these guards he is drafting are as versatile as he was: A very good defender and shooter that can also run the club. For those who where not around he started at the 2 but moved to the point when Vinnie the Micowave came in. UNFORTUNATELY they are not and he had both a great point and great back up shooting guard (Isiah and Vinnie ) In most cases a real point guard that gets you 9 plus assists per game makes the rest of your players better and your shooting guard needs to be able to stretch the floor with good shooting. So even if they are multi skilled they need to be able to fill there primary rolls. All 3 of our guards are lacking. As a point W Bynum has the penetration but gets all selfish and fails often to give priority of getting other going. B Knight pretty much the same skills more a 2 but doesn’t really know how to play off the ball. R Stuckey just not that good a shooter and not that good a passer so really fits neither roll well. Again poor roster planing by JD is to blame … Hopefully Kim English can develop into a suitable replacement for a real good 2 guard JD gave away Aaron Afflalo.

By: Steve K

Steve K — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 12:57:12 +0000

Thank you for pointing this out.
Gay will not be a free agent in the summer of ’13. Nor will he be a free agent in the summer of ’14. His final year ’14-’15 comes with a $19.3M salary. Uh… no thanks.

By: MNM

MNM — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 23:47:05 +0000

What kind of an ultra universe do you think this is? It would take to long to hit everybody on this list, but Chauncey Billups is never coming back here. Stop it.

By: piston moribund

piston moribund — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 22:59:12 +0000

Stuckey, Bynum, and BK are different degrees of the same combo guard. All three guards need the ball in their hand to be effective. When you put them on the floor together, they don’t mix well. If you took the best qualities of the three and mixed them together, you would probably come up with Harden.
That is why Stuckey is playing poorly and has been relegated to a spot up shooter, he is playing with MFWB, who also needs to ball even more then BK or Stuckey. Since Frank has decided to abandon the midrange game for either a 3 or going inside, there are no more plays being run for Stuckey so he just drifts around with his head up his ass.
Its not because he can’t be effective, its just that he is a victim of the system. If one were to examine the shot charts, you would see that the majority of the shots are taken either at the rim or near the three point line. There is simply no emphasis on the midrange game which means that if opposing teams were to clog the middle, and the 3 pointers are not dropping, then they dont score, which has happened on a few occasions.
I think this seems to be the offensive coaching philosophy. The only person who has been given the mid range play is actually Bullwinkle and Max, both of which suck. Max will often times shoot instead of passing it. Bullwinkle, to his credit, has been a bit more decisive lately but he is still not hitting at a high rate, basically, its pretty obvious that the opposing teams will give him that from 15-20ft until he makes them pay.
Not to get off the subject, but it seems that the ineffectiveness of Stuckey has in large part due to his team fit and he is not being used effectively, mainly due to the black hole nature of MFWB. I dont believe that there can be such a large slippage in play in only half a season. I would guess that his unhappiness with the situation and also the lack of control and his role as a spot up shooter has caused him to become rather…….(see posts above)

By: Scott Free

Scott Free — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 22:36:46 +0000

At this point I think I’d be happy with a bad trade. I’m tired of watching the least traded, most stable starting lineup ever, average it up every night.

By: Scott Free

Scott Free — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 22:32:06 +0000

If Dumars were trading basketball cards instead of players, he’d have a 30 page binder loaded with old Christian Laettner foil cards, when everyone else was dealing Jordans and Garnetts.

By: Vic

Vic — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 22:17:50 +0000

This is sense. If he was starting pg with Knight at SG like last year this season would have continued where last left off.

By: Ahmed

Ahmed — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 22:04:11 +0000

Exactly. Hope they fire Frank. If he stays he will kill our future.

By: frankie d

frankie d — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 21:31:24 +0000

stuckey is just the latest in the long line of young players horribly misused by this organization.
stuckey and knight were developing a nice chemistry last year and one could reasonably expect that they would continue to do so this year.
instead, frank had the bright idea to make knight a ball-dominant pg and reduced stuckey to standing in the corner waiting to shoot a 3.
the result was the 0–8 start, and both stuckey and knight horribly confused about their roles.
fortunately, knight is starting to recover and is slowly moving into his best role – off the ball scorer – but stuckey is now stuck in no-man’s land. he doesn’t fit with the starting unit because he doesn’t shoot well enough to space the floor.
he doesn’t fit with the second unit for the same reason and because bynum and drummond – and then everyone else – is much more effective with bynum wheeling and dealing with lots of freedom and the ball in his hands.
stuckey is now a 5th wheel.
i just hope they trade him soon before they do their usual trash job on a talented young player and then end up moving him for nothing.
(see delfino, johnson, afflalo, and the soon to be gone jerebko.)
some things never change…

By: G

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 21:24:47 +0000

Pretty small sample size tho