Shane Battier shouldn't be part of our future plans

Shane is on the decline and won't be good enough to be a factor in any championship run we may have in the next few years in the Yao-era. Certainly nothing like the significant role hes playing now in the team anyways. with the development of ariza and the acquisition of kevin martin, battier will always be remembered as the single worst acquisition morey's charge at the helm, whether you may consider that trade and acquisition to be a mistake or not.

In my opinion, Battier is more than expendable. He should not be getting more than 30 minutes per game as he is getting now and I wouldnt complain even if he was taken out of the rotation. Hes just not good anymore and he hurts our offense worse than chuck hayes(chuck at least can facilitate the offense as a high post passer). Shane, although I love him as a person and a locker room guy, Im afraid is the single weak link in the team and is completely not suited to whatever offense adelman is running. Shane will be the player holding us back from the promised land.

To put my view of shane battier in perspective I have the following stats for you:

as many of us are frustrated with the losses piling on and on in recent weeks and months, despite whats been labelled as a "easy schedue after december", shane has put up the following performances in the run of "easy schedule" games:

for the months january

games 14
minutes 34.4
field goals: 2.5-7.2
fg% 34.653
3pointers: 1.2-3.9 (this is shanes bread and butter)
3point %.309 (!)
FTMA 1.4-2.0 67.857
Points: 7.6

I am sure he may have brought limitless intangibles to help our team, but those stats certainly do tell a story. I know shane cannot be quantified by stats alone, but were we winning any games? Surely winning games is the greatest indicator of them all...

On a side note, I would have LOVED for this trade to have gone down before the trade deadline:

This helps to restock our PF production after Carl is traded, and Troy Murphy's 12 million expiring contract next year will be the T-Mac expiring of 2011. It also enables us to utilise Brian Cook's expiring contract instead of letting it go to waste. If Tmac got us KMart and all those New York picks, imagine what Jefferies + Murphy can get us in the next off season. Murphy is also what Morey would have dreamed Steve Novak to have become, being a great floor spreader for Yao to enable the inside-outside game with Yao just like the Orlando Magic have done to lead to their recent success.

(flame suit on lol)

 

That is all true with shane being a great mentor and a leader everywhere-- whether its on the court or off the court, but I believe its better to just sign a hardworking great character r veteran such as Raja Bell or Juwan Howard (;D) or Bruce Bowen or Ronny Turiaf etc to fulfill that role on a much cheaper cost. It comes to a point where the on court performance negatives outweights the positive contributions he gives off the court. Young teams for instance, such as the Oklahoma City Thunder, sign players such as Kevin Ollie just to mentor their young players. It would be too great of a cost to overpay for JUST veteran leadership when many productive players possess the same qualities.

 

exactly.



if hes such a great bench influence and vocal, charming, smart leader then why not just let him do exactly that on the bench? Better still, just flip his ass to the bench and lockerroom and then he can go teach and influence and work his trade in the lockerroom and practise gym all he wants to his hearts content......cos apparently thats where he is most effective right? and let those others players thats been supposedly been so much affected and improved by his leadership and aura do the work for him on the court...if those players under his wing do well then shanes done his job right?

just keep shane off the court at all times. better still, morey should have just done that trade I proposed for troy murphy and lets see how shane "wins" on those pacers. that'll be a true test of his "winner everywhere he goes" fact, er, I mean, myth?

 

lol yea I admit I was less than mature in my last post. but sometimes emotion just takes over your fingers and you don't end up filtering whatever you end up typing on the keyboard. :grin: thats how strongly I felt against battier.......

but on the other hand, battier wouldn't even be a 6th man on a title team. James Posey isn't even the first guy off the bench in New Orleans...I give credit where credit is due, but his role on the team is too big. would you seriously complain if he was taken out of the rotation? I doubt you will hardly notice a difference.

 

I meant that? Sure, if you take my comments as facts, thats great! even though I never claimed things I write as anything more than my own view. but you may take it as a fact all you want :grin:

Battier is obviously isnt the most stellar morey got...............

 

unfortunately other teams wouldn't do that........

as morey said: you have to give up something in order to get something