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Francis = a poor man's baron davis or stephon marbury?

Discussion in 'Houston Rockets: Game Action & Roster Moves' started by gr8-1, Apr 9, 2004.

  1. gr8-1

    gr8-1 Member

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    what do you think?
     
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    Oh my, what I meant was "poor man's Stockton or Cousy."
     
  3. Blatz

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    what?

    same player. of the three i'd rather have marbury (despite him calling himself starbury), francis and then davis.
     
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    Stevie's development has been very delayed. Marbury was a star in high school and was drafted when he was 20 year old. Steve had to go through a junior college first, he was drafted at an older age and generally has been slow to develop.

    Last year he started like the second coming of Micheal Jordan: just an unstopable guard. I know for a fact that people were taking him in fantasy leagues before Kobe Bryant. The reason was he was knocking the midrange jumper and was shooting 40+% from 3-pt range.

    At some point last year Stevie lost his shot and he struggled the first three-quarters of the season with it as well. Opposing players just give him the space to shoot now and cut off the dribble penetration.

    Steve Francis just needs to get two things down in order to become a truly great player: he needs to be a better shooter and he needs to chill out. The latter highlites a big weakness of Steve, he is too hot headed. He easily gets high after a good play and easily gets frustrated after a bad one. If he learns to play with an even temparament it will help him a lot. I still have high hopes for him. Remember how late in his career Dream cooled off his temparament and become one of the best players ever to play the game.

    I hope Steve will be a late bloomer like Dream and fully realize his enourmous talent. The stuff that DocRocket brought up abot "getting it" is totally irrelevant. We've had three guys that were coaches' sons on this team (Matt Maloney, Brent Price and Bryce Drew) that were "getting it" but we got nowhere with them. Talent is a lot more important in this league than fundamentals. You can teach fundamentals, but you can't teach 40 inch vertical. If you go back and look at Bulls and Lakers games you'll see how many times MJ and Kobe would break a play and make fundamentally wrong decisions. It's total bull**** that having good feel for the game will get you anywhere. Last time I checked, Kobe and MJ had nine more rings than John Stockton.
     
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    give stevie a few more years, he will be the same as starbury.

    i dont think baron is in either league.
     
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    I like your post, Kayman. Sometimes I think Francis would wake up one day and get it. Othertimes, I think he's headed into Rasheed Wallace territory. They're overly athletic and talented. They're goodn with the community, but they're too intense and personal in the game. If Steve plays next year and racks up half the technicals, I'd call that an improvement in maturity, which I think is holding back his concentration in the game.
     
  8. Davidoff

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    I WOULD PICK STEVE!!
     
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    baron davis is nothing but a flashy passer and bad bad bad shooter!!!
     
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    Truer words were never written.

    What an awesome effort he gave us. Now his trade value is back up!

    Sorry, that was bad. It just reflects what'll happen this summer. But I think if he could manage what you wrote----playing with a more even temperment----the maturity would follow.
     

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