I am not going to lie and say I have seen a lot of Jeffries. In fact, China was my first time to see him in anything other than garbage minutes. In China though, he looked every bit the part of a serviceable rotation player. He was on the three point line more than I would like to see in the second game (don't know if that was by design) but was really active around the basket on both ends. For all the horrible things I have heard bantered around on here, I didn't see much there not to like and I liked what I saw as a bench rotation player. He'll never be a front-line starter but you cannot teach Height, wing-span and he has that and plays defense like a tall Chuck. Just my limited opinion!!!
I was really high on Jared Jeffries after first game he played with the Rockets in New Orleans. He finished with 11 pts, 5-11 from the field and 9 rebounds. 2 misses were from behind the arc and I swear at least 3 of those other misses came from easy easy layup misses (that I thought were just 1st game with new team jitter misses) I remember thinking "I love this Jared Jeffries! Knicks Chick was wrong!" and then his production wasn't the same after that game, and he kind of became a joke to a lot of fans- not quite Brian Cook status but close to it. I think what makes me just feel uncomfortable with Jeffries on the court is him shooting 3 pointers. He averages under 30%. Other than DA last year (who was another big player I didn't want shooting 3 pointers) our big men didn't shoot 3's. We don't need Jared Jeffries firing up 3's even if he's open. I like his defense and his rebounding. Those are where he seems to contribute the most and I think he is going to contribute a lot more this year than last year if given minutes including some on offense- just not from behind the arc. Oh and I totally dig the new hair cut.
