Career .285 3pt shooter. No thanks! We all know that's all he wants to do for some weird f@ cking reason. IF he could focus only on pick and roll then yes all day...
That's exactly how I would want to use him. As a special front-court weapon without steady minutes. He might be happy just to be back in the NBA. And if he isn't - not much loss to cut him again. Kind of a low risk, medium reward type scenario in my opinion. People who are concerned about his 3 point shooting think that we're going to be playing him top-7 minutes. No way, on this roster. But he is a guy who can plug a hole when we're having a tough defensive night, and he can be another pick-and-roll machine if Capela is having an off night. Also - Smoove is 31 while Anthony is 33.
are you talking about him replacing Capela in pnr's? hes not even close to being capable of doing that at this stage. his athleticism is nearly gone to be effective at this level and his ability to react is much slower. smoove is 31 but his game was primarily relied upon his athleticism. Melo's is not
Not sure how anything I said can be interpreted as him "replacing" Capela. There will be games when we're playing a highly physical front-court and Capela can't play all 48 minutes. I'm also not clear on what evidence we have that Smith's athleticism is "gone", that just seems to be a herd opinion in this thread. I guess we'll have to see some of those exhibition games to be sure. How much athleticism has to be "gone" before a 6'9 guy can't lay-up a couple of lobs every other game as a utility player? 36 year old Nene is out there dunking on fools when the going gets tough.
"he can be another pick-and-roll machine if Capela is having an off night" well i read that as he would replace Capela and hes obviously not the creater off pnr's the evidence is clear by watching him and what he doesn't do anymore. its on an opinion. its actually what has happened to him. why people still have this certain vision of JS is beyond me
It has only been 2 years that he prevailed against the Clippers, I bet Chris Paul wants him now....harhar.
what he did against the clips was great and all but that doesn't mean at the end of the day he wasn't that good of a player to begin with. if cp3 wanted him he would have already been here a long time ago, especially when they needed training camp bodies
we need this guy according to some around here. hes just so awful now and has been for quite some time now. if you can't realize that, then you probably are following the wrong game or will never full understand it
Wow he looked atrociously bad. Still has OK handles for a PF and creative passing..... To the fans in the first row. If he's auditioning hes gonna need to have the exact opposite of this game. Fortunately we have Luc and PJ now which make me feel better at the four than I have in 3-4 years.
this place loves Josh Smith and seems to think that he's actually good even tho he isn't I wouldn't want him playing over Tucker, Moute, or Nene in any of our bench units
Omg hes only good during the ponies series, yes when he was being cp3 lobbing those tasty oops to howard . Oh and an occasional tomahawk.
I'm 100% sure you just made this up. I've watched a few of his games in China and he's basically the same player athletically. Keep in mind, the talent level is drastically lower so he's basically just scrimmaging out there. Josh Smith would be a perfect fit off the bench as a 4/5.
and you're 100% wrong. you may have watched but you obviously have no idea what athleticism is lol the talent level is drastically lower and he still looks awful. yeah that surely helps josh smith
