<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Just about a dead heat. RT <a href="https://twitter.com/JonesOnTheNBA">@JonesOnTheNBA</a>: Worst start by a big free agent pick up: Chandler Parsons or Lance Stephenson?</p>— Jeff Zillgitt (@JeffZillgitt) <a href="https://twitter.com/JeffZillgitt/status/532356241843322880">November 12, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> Stephenson, of course, Dallas' back-up plan.
I am no "NBA body expert" but it just seems weird to me that anyone can think of Parsons as a "4." The guy is not just skinny, he also naturally has no ass and has narrow slumpy shoulders. Omri Casspi, for one, is signficantly "bigger" if you see them in person. There is a reason why when Houston went "small ball" the last couple seasons with Parsons on the floor, the one defending the opposing PF is often Delfino and later Harden-- shorter but thicker players with larger more powerful glutes. He can lift to get bigger but the bigger build likely isn't natural for him and it saps his quickness, flexibility and endurance. Parsons gets pushed around by the stronger guys and it's physically taxing for him to do it for too long. You can really only play Parsons at PF for very limited stretches and mostly when the opposing team also goes small so he is still defending someone his own size.
Parsons is a solid player that would start on almost every team in the NBA. You are right he isn't a PF and i don't think the mavs ever thought he was. He is overpaid and I for one am glad Morey signed Ariza instead. So far you have been completely wrong about this.....if memory serves me correct you matching dallas offer.
It's so much more fun when fun irrationally upsets someone on a basketball message board. LOL Try a different thread... Or the GARM... or the Styx--- oh crap my bad.
The Mavericks defense is even worse than I expected it to be. With that starting lineup we knew it would be bad, but it's a joke. Parsons better find that shot because they are gonna have to score... a lot.
What I said was that you can have BOTH Ariza and Parsons. The decision wasn't Ariza vs. Parsons. It was Ariza plus "Flexibility" vs. Ariza plus Parsons. We'll have to see what "flexibiltiy" turns into. So far, it has landed Kostas on a contract with no guaranteed $ in the 2nd season (the team likely could have had Kostas with the tax-payer MLE but would have to guaranteed some or most of the 2nd yr money).
You posted too early, breh.:grin: ESPN box score tells me: 19 pts (7-19; 5-11 3PT) 4 reb, 3 ast, 1 stl Besides 19 points on 19 shots is kinda bad for a 3rd option...
