Josh Smith when he's playing the right position. Taj Gibson. Serge Ibaka is better at some things. Chris Bosh certainly does a lot though, I don't think any other big men are asked to trap so aggressively at the moment, nor could they.
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Taj Gibson Chuck Hayes Josh Smith Is that all you got? Are you serious? If so, you'd better watch more Heat games. And I love Chuck Hayes. But Hayes and Smith and Gibson, while each individually have great defensive strengths....... Bosh encompass everything they do in one package and he does it better. He's a better pick-and-roll defender than any of them. He's just as good (better) than Smith in transition D. He's just as good as Hayes in the post and he covers even more ground than Hayes. He's just as effective as Smith in help defense and guarding the rim. Bosh has NO defensive weaknesses. His basketball iq is through the roof (superior to Smith), he has more length than Smith, he's quicker and longer than each of them. There is NO better defender at the 4 in the NBA than Bosh and he is a HUGE reason why they have won 2 championships, the second most important player to the Heat and the staple of their defense.
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Bosh is mentally weak. Call me crazy but develop TJones on the defensive end and he will be much better fit to the Rockets (low salary and close production). Don't pay him more than $10M.
That's probably the stupidest thing i've read since Herrera ranting about how he thinks Kyle Lowry is better than Harden.
I removed the size tags. Take it easy. It is weekend. Go have some fun elsewhere if you can't get it here. Bosh has been tired of bang the bigs in the post since his Raptors days. It was a bless to him that Wade and James picked up the leadership in Miami.
Bosh's stats are 16.2 ppg, 6.6 rpg, per 19.11, fg% 51.6, 3% 33.9 & ft% 82.0. He's the 2nd leading rebounder behind James. He's the 3rd fiddle on the team, which he would be for the Rockets; so his #'s wouldn't drop significantly, like Love's will. Yet you wouldn't pay him more than 10M!?! You're in a minority of ONE!
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All right. Let's look at the numbers: http://bkref.com/tiny/36qC9 '13-'14 Season Per 36 Minutes Code: Rk Player FG% 3P% FT% TRB PTS 1 Chris Bosh .516 [B].339[/B] [B].820[/B] 7.4 [B]18.2[/B] 2 Terrence Jones [B].542[/B] .307 .605 [B]9.1[/B] 16.0 '13-'14 Season Advanced Code: Rk Player PER TS% eFG% TRB% AST% USG% 1 Chris Bosh 19.0 [B].597[/B] .555 13.0 5.8 [B]22.6[/B] 2 Terrence Jones [B]19.1[/B] .577 [B].564[/B] [B]14.1[/B] [B]7.0[/B] 18.3 Advanced Stats for This Year's Playoffs Up-to-now Code: Rk Player PER TS% eFG% TRB% AST% USG% 1 Chris Bosh 16.3 [B].563[/B] [B].546[/B] 10.3 5.5 [B]19.2[/B] 2 Terrence Jones [B]18.0[/B] .519 .513 [B] 14.7[/B] [B]8.7[/B] 14.3 While Bosh is the 3rd fiddle behind James and Wade in terms of scoring, TJones is the 4th fiddle behind Howard, Harden, Parsons. I guess you are surprised to find out that TJones has better PER and rebounds better than in both regular season and playoffs with slightly lower scoring. Yes Jones has to improve in this post defense especially when defending LMA. I still remember how everyone on this board was pleased with his improvement after last summer break. Mark my word, this 22 year old kid will get better defensively after this break. But you know most importantly what's missing in the above stats? Code: Rk Player 2014/15 Salary Due 1 Chris Bosh [B][COLOR="Red"]$20,590,000[/COLOR][/B] 2 Terrence Jones $1,618,680 I hope Morey will spend the $19 million difference to upgrade the point-guard position and to get a top notch wing defender who can shoot three, Bruce Bowen type of guy. I've no problem to be in a minority of ONE this time if I have to.
There is a reason why Morey said on the radio that PF is the team's weakest spot. This despite the box score stats that Jones put out. Jones is young and has potential given that he does put up good box score stats. He will likely grow with experience, but right now, he is just far from a consistently helpful player. He has good runs but look at the playoffs-- the team had to go to Asik for defense and small ball for shooting/offense. The team will do much better with an actual big player who forces the other team to worry about their shooting at 15 feet and beyond while also make few mistakes on the defensive end.
could see them wanting asik but no way lin lmao imagine wing defenders like lebron/wade funnelling to asik who can actually defend the PnR.... god
