Yea Pat has always seemed like one of those Battier types where the raw stats won't blow you away, but lineups just seem to perform great when he is on the floor.
Obviously bringing in PatPat alone isn't going to get us into the championship. Signing PatPat depends on context. If you could sign him for something semi-reasonable (whatever that is in today's market) AFTER moving Ryan Anderson (and maybe spare parts) to a willing team (hometown Sacramento? would never-used-here Harrell and perhaps Dekker or whomever get you the #10? and if not, hell, cap space would be fine for Anderson alone), then, yes, paying less for a guy who brings you what Anderson brings you for too much money.......nice.
Some positive looks at his stats. Ortg was 115 .372% from 3 .412% from the corners .659% of his overall shots were from 3
QUOTE="YOLO, post: 11139905, member: 50714"]besides the fact that PP isn't some great defender, bc the spurs beat hou in the post? far from it[/QUOTE] I said a good defender. I never said great. Great post defenders are a dying bread with the speed of the game and even the bigs being forced out to defend the small lineups. This also means Ariza is not forced to play the 4 when Ryno is playing the 5 spot or is resting.
good great doesn't matter in this instance bc he's neither good either. you could probably say respectable due to some effort
This. Capela was switching a lot more than Nene since Clint could recover better while Nene was better suited to staying close to the rim. I think many posters on here still have a traditional view of defense despite watching the rockets switch heavily and send weak side help to the post.
Really like him off the bench, but are you going to spend 9-10M of cap space on him? He's a very good option onto a terrible summer for us.
This is something that happens to spot-up shooters when either 1) the team's star players are not generating offense very well or 2) the opposing team decides to stick to the shooters rather than helping off them on dribble drives and post-ups. With the Raptors, Lowry (partly due to injury) and DeRozan have not been very threatening in the playoffs compared to their regular season production. Something similar happened to Shane Battier when he was with the Grizzlies years ago. Those Pau Gasol-led teams kept getting swept in the 1st round and Battier's playoff numbers were pretty poor. He managed to be plenty useful on better teams.
