Can some one tell me what Eddie Griffen is good for?

This boggles my mind... Granted, he may be a decent project and may be good in 3 years, but right now he is probably the most useless piece of $hit on this team.

Defense- TERRIBLE.. Continues to take risks and continues to get abused.

Rebouding- Horrible

Offense- He is the worst offensive player on this team and before someone bashes me, let me explain. Not everyone is a good offensive player especially against NBA defenders and outside shooting in general takes a great deal of skill. But most players find roles and niches and play to their strengths. Not that Eddie has any strengths but shooting outside shots is clearly not one of them. The guy roams around and shoots 3 pointers and opponents gleefully watch him brick one after another.

Again, I understand that it takes time to develop but during games is no place to practice his ugly @ss jumpers.

Lastly, the thing that bothers me the most is Eddie brings NO INTANGIBLES whatsoever.

He plays like a bonehead. Terrible passer. Moves poorly without the ball. Cant cut, doesnt set screens doesnt get loose balls etc.

So I ask you guys again, what is Eddie good for????

We already have too many "young prospects" on this team and we definitely need to get rid of at least one of them... If Eddie doesnt show me anything anytime soon, he gets my vote. He still has some trade value left so we should seriously look to move him...

 

Rocketkid,

I understand that you are a Eddie fan as so many on this board. But you can almost say that about anyone...

"Once he starts knocking down his J on a consistent basis, he'll be a solid contributor. Once he learns some post moves and hits his turn around jumper, he'll be a force. "

 

Do you think Eddie would continue to get such good looks IF teams actually felt that he could consistantly hit those shots? Personally, I dont think so. Teams FREELY let Eddie shoot WIDE open jumpers because this takes the ball out of our better shooters such as Steve, Yao, Cat etc. Eddie should almost wear our opposing teams jersey when he shoots those 3s.

So my point is that you can not judge a "good look" without taking to account who is shooting it. In my opinion, a wide open 3 for Eddie is not a good look. At least at this juncture in his career. Neither would a wide open 3 pointer be a good look for Yao or Mo T. That is simply not their strengths and if you are going to tell me that shooting 3s is Eddies strength, then he simply should not be starting for the Rox nor playing in this league.

 

First of all, I did not say anyone. I said almost anyone. And here is the quote of what the other poster said about Eddie.

"Once he starts knocking down his J on a consistent basis, he'll be a solid contributor. Once he learns some post moves and hits his turn around jumper, he'll be a force"

One SAMAKI WALKER starts knocking down his j on a consistant basis, he'll be a solid contributor. Once he learns some post moves and hits his turn around jumper, he'll be a force.

Would this statement be accurate? I can probably interchange about 20 other young fowards and the statement will still be fairly accurate.

I realize that Eddie is young and will some day improve, but as I said earlier, he is simply not ready now. We are in a playoff race. This is no time for him to be "practicing" his 3 point shots when we are fighting to win games. As of now, he brings nothing to the table. Until he does, he should not play. We have given him MORE than enough chances for him to prove himself and he is truly hurting us now.

 

You are really grasping for straws if you are going to tell me that Eddie is improving through his 36% FG % last year to 39% this year and his extraordinary .3 rebound increase from 5.7 to 6!!!!!!

Frankly, I am not that picky about stats. But it is just how Eddie plays the game. As I said in an earlier post, I realize that shooting is difficult and there is nothing wrong with Eddie not being a good shooter and their are numerous other ways for him to help our team that does not show up on the box score such as:

tough d
ball movement
screens
lose balls
keeping the ball alive
hard fouls to protect the paint
movement away from the ball to create better spacing for teammates

He currently does NONE of these well

 

Potential is not gonna get us into the playoffs this year. If Eddie isn't able to contribute NOW, he should sit on the bench and let someone else who CAN play.

 

Yes. Chandler and Curry have been playing well and seem like a great duo in the future. However, please understand why they get playing time.

First of all, they have began playing well with more minutes. Thus, they earned the playing time.

Secondly (perhaps most importantly), it is clear that the Bulls are in the early stages of a major rebuilding process and are no where close to competing for the playoffs.

We, on the other hand have a VERY good shot at making it but we seem to be still experimenting with projects who are not simply ready to play at this level.