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tehG l i d e · Nov 1, 2012

in a preseason game*

Easy · Nov 1, 2012

I remember there was a thread about him having the worst +/- in the entire league last season.

He is a career .365 3pt shooter. Good but not great. He can go hot and cold. He has some "he thinks he's Ray Allen" moments every now and then.

Someguy1229 · Nov 1, 2012

I'm glad to have him aboard as well as cook. They are our marksmen specialists.

ralphabetsoup · Nov 1, 2012

He's not just a 3 specialist, but an all-round player. Streaky shooter. Not shy about shooting. Physical enough to play inside some for rebounds or guard down low. A good safety valve spot-up 3pt shooter for our offense when someone runs into a double team wall or the play bogs down. Good to have a South American on the squad.

RioFan · Nov 1, 2012

Follow Carlos Delfino on Twitter at @cabezadelfino.

Carlos Delfino played injured last year. That much was evident to anyone watching him. The way Delfino lumbered up and down the court, dragging a messed up wrist and a painful groin injury through the season. He actually suffered the wrist injury on the first game of the year, which was some extraordinarily poor luck for Delfino. He suffered the groin injury about a month after the all-star break, when he was finally getting his shooting touch back and putting together a few weeks of solid performances. Delfino played through the injury, though, both when his wrist hurt and when his groin was strained. Is that respectable? I think it's fair to say that most sports fans expect players on their favorite teams to play through injury, no matter the cost. Not most sports writers, who tend to understand why players don't do that, but sports fans tend to react with confusion when a player takes time off to heal.

I mention all this because Delfino is actually somewhat upset that the Bucks haven't reached out to him at all since his contract expired at the end of last season. I think he has a pretty good point. If what he says is true -- and we have no real reason to doubt that it is -- it's a bit of a classless move by the Bucks organization, in my view. If you don't want a player back, you don't have to offer them a contract -- but when a player played through injuries for your franchise and stayed relatively loyal throughout a tumultuous 3-year stretch, doesn't it behoove the GM to at least give an exit interview or a call to say thanks? Is Delfino an amazing player? No. He's really good at using screens to get open, and he has a nice misdirection dribble he uses to create space. And all things considered, Delfino has refined his game into being an excellent three point bomber (currently sits at 36% from three on his career). He gets assisted on the vast majority of his threes, mind you, but his ability to get open for three is fantastic and he'd excel in a system with a point guard like Kyrie Irving or Russell Westbrook, players who have a lot of court vision when they use it but are surrounded by players who can't get open.

Outside all of that, kind of eh. He's an average defender, decent rebounder, and a subpar passer. Overall, nothing particularly special, and it's true that Delfino relies quite a bit on his point guard. But he's effective at what he does, and he did just spend almost an entire season playing through nagging injuries to try and help his team. Maybe consider calling him up, John Hammond, and saying thanks? Just a thought. Bucks fans have a good point when they note that players have a strange and foreign aversion to playing in Milwaukee, but it may not just be the climate. With stories like this one, Jennings/Jackson wanting out, and Andrew Bogut's relatively poor experience with the Milwaukee management, it becomes a legitimate question whether the market-size disadvantage is half market and half management. I suppose we'll figure that out later, but for now, it's an open question that I'm not sure Bucks fans really want to answer. At least Hammond is decent on the trading block, I suppose.
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jets fool · Nov 1, 2012

Had him on my fantasy the past few yrs when he was with the bucks dude can light it up frm 3 and can put it on the floor even remember him splashing some 3s on us the past few times we've played the bucks.....best 3 pt shooters on team = 1Delfino 2Harden 3AirParsons

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