
Originally Posted by
D-Leethal
You thought he'd be at 16-7 shooting 40% from 3?
And to be honest, my post about looking justified with regards to Lin wasn't directed at you, more towards guys like blitz who get on Felton in game threads for every little mistake, never give him his due after a great performance and are self-proclaimed Lin lovers. You are at least there to give props.
Felton put us on his back for probably the two biggest road wins we have had in god knows how long. Honestly they might be the best best road wins we've had in a decade.
I will say this, I think you value efficiency a little too much, and overlook things for guys who are efficient spoon-fed scorers and don't give the same pass for guys who are forced to actually create their own shots at times and thus, downing their percentages - nor account for the fact that these guys have to do that.
I mean the efficiency crew (not sure if you were part of it - specifically nycrican) was trying to tell everyone last season Fields was better than JR because he was so efficient. But I mean, what the hell did Fields have to do? If he was forced to create a shot he'd pass to a guy like JR because Fields can't even get a shot off on his own. JR takes bad shots that do not need to be taken, we all know this, but a chunk of those he's forced to take because he's one of the few on this team that can. Brewer wouldn't even get a shot off 1 on 1 and would look like Jeremy Lin against Danny Green last night whereas JR and Felton can create off the dribble and get a shot off whenever they need to - thus they become bailout options who have to take 3-4 extra shots a game that have extremely small chance of going in.
I didn't even read the whole thread, I went to the Nugs came, got home and saw people fawning over Gallo, bashing Melo and Felton. It pissed me off. The same guys that are the first to harp on a bad performance barely give any due for a tremendous one. Lets not forget this guy is playing thru an injury nearly everyone would sit for and hes pretty much re-injured it in every game hes played with it.
Long story short, I think there is way more to this game than scoring efficiently, and the most efficient scorers usually have the least amount of skills, and are so efficient because they are never put in a position where they need to take a bad shot - because they aren't capable of getting a shot off when the D clamps down.