He hit open 3 pointers in one game.
**** the least you can ask of a terrible player is to make OPEN shots. How easily you forget the open 3 pointer he missed that lost a game against the Thunder. Kobe's play late in that game aside. Blake had an EASY, OPEN look.
Blake is not a more refined PG because his passing is ineffective because all his passes come from 20+ feet out. Morris can drive. That's the passes you need in D'Antoni's system.
What is Nash going to teach a 32 year old PG.. Come on son. At least Morris is young and can shape his game still.
What's a below average PG going to change. He's not Kobe Bryant who can just change his repertoire yearly. Blake is going to learn to be a P&R guard
He can't even drive to the basket.
We talk about Blake shouldn't play SG... Where do you think he is going to play... When Westbrook, Lawson, Paul are playing 40 minutes.. We're going to win with Nash play 43 minutes in the playoffs? Not likely. So someone is going to come in. MDA who loves Blake's game will take him off the bench, and put him in the game. They're going to play Blake on any guard in the West. All of which will torch him? Nope he'll be on SGs throughout the season and playoffs.
Blake will do well ?
You would think the least a terrible player can do is hit 3 pointers, have we forgot the likes of Radmanovic, Murphy, Morrison, who were billed to be good three point shooters and ended up doing absolutely ****? At least Blake tries and hustles, he puts the effort forward. If we are going to talk about his misses, lets talk about Morris' misses along with his suicide bomber approach to fast breaks. Yea Morris can drive, but half the time its to no where. I'm not saying take Morris out of the mix, he's shown his moments, but give me a experienced player like Blake any day of the week and i'll take him.
I'm not saying he's going to be come Nash jr. or anything, but **** you don't think his game might change a bit for the better watching one of the greatest point guards lead the team? I'd give him a little more credit that that, I mean he is a professional basketball player.
You act like guards don't torch us now, we've been torched by every great, to good, to mediocre, to downright players who you forgot played in the league. I mean this year alone we've been torched by the likes of Toney Douglas, Cory Brewer, and Marcus Thorton. I agree with you Blake isn't the best backup point guard in the league, he's probably bottom 10, however I think his play could be useful to us, and the fact that D'antoni likes him is a plus. I mean we argue about D'antoni's defense rightfully so, but his plays have been pretty money, and hopefully a confident Blake can step in and knock down some open shots. Who knows though, I might be on the team Trade Blake for McDonald's Sweet Tea before the year ends.
Guess what.. Effort doesn't mean a damn thing if it doesn't result in anything. Sure I love his effort. But he hasn't produce one iota for the Lakers.
In 2010-11 his Player Efficiency Rating was 7.2. I cannot tell you how amazingly bad that is for a guy who plays 20 minutes per game. Only player worse than Blake was Luke Walton. In 2011-12 his player efficiency rating shot up to 8.5. In comparison Fisher was an 8.0. Troy ******g Murphy was a 9.0. Even McBob posted a 10.9. In the 7 games he played this year, he had a 9.0 rating still amazingly bad. His savior is Morris and Duhon had worse PER. And one of them is on the job training. With multiple games of 5 or 6 minutes that typically result in lowered PER. No one said Morris is ready, fully developed. But he shows results on defense.
What is his experience exactly being in the league 10 years? Never being above average and he's in freefall decline.
We got plenty of experience. Our 5 best players each of which get 30 minutes per game at least have an average experience of 13.8 seasons. Kobe & Nash in their 17th. MWP 14th. Pau in his 12th. Dwight Howard is his 9th. Jamison is in his 15th year. Duhon 9th. Meeks & Hill 4th. We don't need 10 year guys. We need young guys.
Tell me where is he going to play? He's certainly not guarding PGs. So he's going to be playing SG like Morris. But because Morris can slow down quick guards, he's put on PGs. You telling me, we are putting Good Job, Good Effort Blake on PGs. Do we want defense, or do we want a **** show.
You do know you don't get better after 10 years in the league. You don't add new things, and become a player you're not. The players that can change are elite. Or are elite in one area, and can transform it into a different manifestation. What's Blake going to learn? P&R? He's not fast enough.
But what offense are we going to run. He can't distribute the basketball. So who is running the offense. If it is Nash then Blake has to be at the 2. If not Nash, it's Kobe, and we might as well just call it all iso because Steve Blake won't make a splash.
Kwame Brown is a professional basketball player.. Yet he never learned how to catch a basketball. So what truly is your point? He can theoretically say well I learned a lot from Nash. But he will never be able to change his game at this point. That's why people place young players with veterans because they can mold their game. No one ever says "Let's go get this 10 year vet because he can learn a lot from a 17 year vet." At 10 years, you don't become a new player. If you were not an all-star and only average at best like Blake was, you only decline.
So MDA likes him? What the hell difference does that make. I liked Josh McRoberts, but that doesn't mean I'm going to draw up plays for him. Or even play him for that matter.
We "hope" Blake can be money.. So why bother even taking the time on him. We've hoped 2 straight seasons. He wasn't confident when Mike Brown basically put him with as much minutes as Derek Fisher. And then made him starter. He played the same. Then lost his starting job.
Oh the coach likes you... Now you'll play better.. He's a veteran, that **** won't change. And it's not like Mike Brown treated him like Ebanks. He played him consistently and increased his role. And when he was demoted from the starting lineup... His role/minutes was still comparable.
He's just not a good player. Likeable guy. Great effort.. But he's not good.
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