Agreed, but this team needs someone out there to try and make plays. I know his shooting percentage has been beyond awful, but he's got 7 assists tonight to only two turnovers. Much better playmaking than our starting point guard. He's also currently the only starter on the right side of the +/- line for us. Numbers don't tell everything, but they can't be totally ignored either.
When you're done dating Kobe and want to talk about Ariza objectively, let me know. I was not comparing them, simply stating that even the great Kobe is a bone head; we just don't have enough depth to expose him at this point. Ariza is what he is, and given all the rox misfortunes, I'm glad he's on our team.
RA's fault mainly. If I'm a player and I'm told go take shots I would too. Simply put, he shouldn't be allowed to take that many shots. He doesn't have it and he probably never will have it. Go look at T-Mac's FG% and compare it to Ariza's. Remember, T-Mac has been double for most of his career as well, Ariza never gets doubled unless he himself runs into one. Ariza is just not a good offensive player. If you wish I will point out many of the reasons why but the main one is he is horribly inefficient as a scorer.
LOL You noticed too huh. I swear some people pulled up some old rafer threads and copied and pasted everything except the names.
I really don't blame RA. Even if ariza or who ever are missing everything. We have to realise that this year is a development year. A year to develop our young guys including ariza and see what they can do. Like I said before the season started, if we make the playoffs because of our young guys, thats great. if we don't, good too, we have a chance at the lottery. We are not going to win ANYTHING this year. We are lucky to push the 1st round of the playoffs to a seven game series aganist the top four in the west. By the time next season starts, ariza will be back to his familiar role of a 3rd option. Because of his development this year, he would excel in that role much better than before. Why fault RA. let the guys play and see if they can become something special. If not, at least we know they are good role players. If they do (like carl, brookes, cbud although still early) we struck gold.
5-14 12 points 3 rebs 8 assists 2 steals 2 turnovers... I'll take that from Trevor EVERYNIGHT maybe with slightly better shooting and a couple more boards.
Grammar police: It's not Ariza's fault...They're too long. And no one cares whether or not you are gay.
Anyone else catch early in the game when Ariza dribbled from the top of the three point line over the corner toward Shane expecting a pick and when he didn't get it he throws his off hand up (while still dribbling) in frustration? I'm not sure who was at fault (I doubt it was Shane) but it was just another one of this moron's mini-tantrums on the court this season. Please let this scrub punch someone so he can be suspended so Budinger can get more time.
Been praying for that for a while now. I notice many national sports writers are high on him. Maybe some General Managers of other teams are too. Sell high!!!
the media is high on him b/c of the team itself--we are playing well. if you want to know whether other coaches respect ariza's game, watch how they guard him. they don't double/pressure him at all, and always give him tons of space and dare him to shoot. ariza is can be a very good role player if he is a 5th option on offense (meaning nobody even cares to gameplan for him). but right now, he's our 3rd option (after brooks/scola in the starting unit, and landry when he comes in) and he's still struggling. i've stuck by what i said: i'm glad morey made this move b/c i think ariza will be better once we get another superstar and move him down to the 4th or 5th option spot. any greater expectations would be ludicrous. and for people bringing his assists: nobody is fooled that he's anywhere close to a decent playmaker. it's due to the movement offense
There were a few head scratching moments when Ariza would drive halfway in and then picks up the dribble and get stuck in the double team. Half the time I don't understand what he is trying to do. His ball handling skills are terrible. He is very clumsy. This offseason, Ariza really needs to work on 3 things. 1. Ball Handling ( he needs to improve this vastly) 2. Footwork 3. shoot off the dribble The reason why he is struggling so much is because he is trying to do things he just cannot do. The Rockets want him to score more, well it is very difficult for him to score if he has a hard time dribbling the ball and his footwork is very clumsy. He can score much easier if he would find an open spot for a spot up three or cut to the basket and someone would feed him the ball and let him take off from there. But other than that, him trying to create his own shot just isn't a good idea. He just cannot handle the ball. So therefore, in the NBA, if you cannot handle the rock, you don't have a good footwork, you cannot create your own offense.
They don't. Most of Ariza's assists were horrible, they were inaccurate passes that our players was fortunated to catch and shoot. And he traveled alot and didn't get called for.
Ariza should set a rule He starts off with 3 jumpshots If he hits his last jump shot he gets to shoot again, if he misses he doesn't. Everytime he drives to the lane and scores/draws a foul.... Actually **** that Ariza should just shoot 10 times per game at most.
Meh, In the last 10 games, Ariza has been improving. His shot is still awful, but he's making better decisions as to when to shoot it and when to drive. He often gets hung up while driving and can't find an outlet, but I've also seen occasions where he makes a great decision and gets an assist instead. It used to be 80/20 with bad/good decisions, now it's probably more 60/40. He's improving with his decision-making, and I think that'll be the most crucial part of it his game (along with his outside shot, of course). He does struggle against the Lakers, but keep in mind that Ron or Kobe is guarding him and they're both great defenders.
