One-dimenisonal players are hurting us and Budinger is showing that he's too one-dimenisonal. If he isn't hitting his shots, he does basically nothing else. He is shot 0-9 today, was no factor and is shooting terrible for the year: under 40% from the field and around 15% or lower behind the line. No one could shoot any worse than that, not even Rafer Alston. He doesn't play great D too nor does he have a good slashing game at all. Taylor can create his own shot and at least take the ball to the basket. He's the clear-cut better player at getting to the rim and when the shots aren't falling, like all of this season, we need a guy that can put pressure on the D, take it to the rack and finish. Put Jermaine Taylor in.
you can't keep praising JT like Adelman and Morey do and then not give him a chance when other players aren't performing
I'm not opposed to playing JT meaningful minutes. I mean, when the bench is playing as bad as this one is... you have to look for any way you could change it.
Right now he can't be worse than Chase and could only make you better. At least give him chance. But knowing Adelman he will refuse until is to late.
At this point it's not even about talent, or at least shouldnt be...we're talking about NBA basketball not some middle school team where the 12th man dribbles with two hands and kicks the ball to a teammate. You gotta get some fresh legs out there who'll play like they're afraid to get benched again. TAylor, JJ, Hill, ish....mix it up more with the starters and other bench guys......we've been doing the same thing for a few games and the result doesnt change. Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Taylor is a shooting guard. Playing him at small forward with Ish and Lee would be a size disadvantage against most teams.
You the man! I can't stand his nut huggers that believes e v e r y thing he says. At least some people doesn't like people going around the bushes and just be up front!
Chase is been a disadvantage all year at the position. At least he can be a miss match on the other side.
You seen what New Orleans is running with there 2nd unit? They often have Marcus Thornton(6'3) in playing SF alongside Willie Green. Taylor has more size than him and is about the same size as a guy like Desmond Mason, who play a lot at the 3. It's not like he's weak too. He's got a strong frame and rebounds well. Even before he was drafted, people before said he plays more like a SF. Why not try him at SF? He can't play any worse defense than Budinger and he can at least use his speed and lateral quickness to stay in front of his man.
he just needs to get out there...they all do...problem is rick sticks with his starters and initial rotation, by the time he wants to consider putting in the extended bench he's probably too afraid and stays conservative...the change needs to start early. Start hill with Miller, allowing scola to play more with the bench, which makes it easier to play JJ alongside Scola. Better balance...gotta do something similar in the backcourt
i agree that he should have not played in the second half he was obviously out of sink. I wanted to see JT a little see if we could finish off the come back.
I'm not familiar with the Hornets backup situation, so maybe you're right in that size is not necessarily the deciding factor. Taylor would need to defend small forwards well though, because from what I've seen Lee's not going to be much help in that department. The other thing is Taylor won't help with the serious lack of outside shooting of Smith and Lee, which may be why he didn't get playing time even with Budinger out.
If Budinger makes Linas Kleiza look like the second coming of MJ then something is wrong. We have the worst defenders in the NBA at each of the PG, SG and SF positions, excluding Battier and Lowry of course.
