I thought TWill was looking he was looking to pass too often. He would be within 5' of the basket able to shoot and pass it back out for a longer shot. I am hoping that he takes his shots and drives to the basket more often tonight.
Haha I saw that. Twill is definitely full of himself. That can be a good thing or a bad thing for a player. It can show confidence in oneself or it can destroy oneself. For Twill's sake, he should wait until he proves to everyone but his self that he should be playing a lot and puts up the numbers to back it up. Once he does that consistently, then he can do his show boating antics after a 3 or a nice assist.
To be honest I had no idea why we drafted Parsons, or why we kept him on the roster instead of Smith and Lin. Like what others have said, I basically saw C-bud without the shooting touch. Now, I'm thinking Parsons can carve himself a niche role as a Matt barnes/Battier type of player, a glue guy who has length and knows how to use it to bother people into taking crazy shots. His scoring skills seem to have deserted him (which is crazy since he was a good scorer in college), but I like the hustle, the smarts and long D at the sf spot, something we sorely lack.
I agree. I saw that with Goran too. I know they are trying to fit in and go with the flow but if you are within 5' of the basket, it's your shot.
It was one of those situational match ups. Boner likes to camp out at the three and Mchale wanted someone to make sure he doesn't get open looks. A little hesitant on offense but I like the kid.
Cmon man, the team was on a high and putting a whooping on a good team. Why can't he be happy? We need some guys that will show emotion out there once in a while. Plus we were winning big anyways.
Maybe you're right. I only watched three of their NCAA tourney games last year, and usually it was to look at how much of a ballhog Kenny Boynton was. I'm basically an ACC ho. Parsons' stats from college are not great, although he certainly did get TV exposure as one of Florida's "stars" and build a rep that way. The main thing I based my statements on were preseason. I could easily be wrong and hope I am though. We'll see.
I hate this but it is absolutely true. That play and the one where he drove the paint from the right side, went into the air, had a super easy dipsy doodle layup and he passed to somebody on the left baseline who was expecting the shot. Then he trots up court like his man missed the pass. Stupid play by TWill. Just play hoops man. Just play hoops. You can tell there is a chemistry issues big time between him and Goran too. They inbound the ball to Goran and he dribbles, dribbles, dribbles....and TWill stands and stands and stands as if to say, when you get through give me the durn ball, instead of moving, moving, moving, receiving the ball, making a quick move to the hole and either taking it to the rim, or getting rid of it. Goran dribbles it too much trying to make the play. And then TWill does the exact same thing when he gets his mitts on the ball. Reminds me of the Adelman era McGrady. Adelman was begging for ball movement and player movement and McGrady wanted the ball at the top and stand there palming it expecting a screen and everybody else to cut so he could throw them the ball. TWill is doing the same thing. Him and Goran suck on the floor together. I hate it. I'm not happy with Goran doing all that dribbling and running around either. He does way too much dribbling around and not enough moving. Goran's strength is his shooting, not his playmaking. He should be moving around, catching and shooting, or catching, making one move and either shooting or passing the ball. Goran and TWill are ball stoppers. Goran hasn't proven he's effective enough in that role. And TWill has proven to be incapable at this point of moving the ball around the perimeter crisply enough. TWill is always looking to make the play himself and he's always waiting for one of his mates to do something for him, set him a screen, so he can keep dribbling around. Both of them hinder the flow of the offense on the second unit together. Neither of them move enough without the ball and they both want to receive it and play with it too much. Like I said, I hate it. TWill could get so much more out of his game if he just paid attention and started scrapping out there instead of acting like a prima donna. He could have boarded that shot by Lee and dunked it back down, and very likely would have gotten and And 1 to go with it. He could have just laid in that ball that he would up turning over. That's 4 points and a board and one less turnover. That's the kind of stupidity that keeps him from being a very, very good player right now with the opportunity to be great. He won't do the little things that he needs to do to be able to do the big things he wants to do. It sucks that so much talent is bottled up in a pinhead. And yeah, TWill, I hope you're reading this. I love your talent. Hate your antics.
Hate the idea of playing Parsons. Parsons has limited upside and will never be a NBA starter. Marcus Morris should get all of the extra playing time. Honestly Marcus Morris and T Will should get all of the playing time at the 3. Parsons is a waste of time
I thought Parsons looked very good against the Spurs. I would start Martin and T-Will and then have Lee and Parsons coming off the bench with Bud being the 5th guy in that rotation. Parsons also looked a lot more comfortable than Morris (in very limited minutes).
I wouldn't say Parsons is a waste of time. But yeah, I agree that they should concentrate on developing Morris. I envision Lowry, Morris and Patterson the future core of this team. All three of them have all-star potential.
He has the potential to be somewhere between Gallinari and Odom which isn't that bad for a second rd pick. I'm not sure about Morris yet, but we'll see. It should interesting to see what the roster looks like as the season progresses. It's probably going to change quite a bit by the time the season ends.
I dont think that's a fair comparison either. He's not a defensive specialist or even close to it. He's got a better all-around game than either of those two. He's like Tmac without the explosion, but moves around more.
