Starting, I want TJ. TJ always get his first points in the start to get us going. DMO to finish, we need his 3 ball and hustle on the boards.
Which is what I've been saying for awhile. If it were me, I would play Jones/Dmo 32 minutes and howard 35mins. That's a 3man rotation. I would play asik against certain teams,but not often. Jones howard starts. Dmo comes in for jones,then jones comes in for howard,then howard comes in for dmo. Late in games, see who is playing the best of dmo and jones.
Nah, Asik is the best backup center. He gets all the backup minutes. I even like the twin towers like we did tonight. Use it in spurts and it works. As for Dmo and TJones no need to rock the boat. But DMo needs at least half the minutes on most nights. And when hte PF is a tougher guard then more.
Jones just hitting a wall right now since he didn't play much last year. He'll be more consistent next year.
I'm really happy DMo is seizing his chance but Jones' performance as of late has been very worrisome. It one thing for him not to score as much but he really hasn't been rebounding or blocking shots as well as he was. He just looks slow and lost. We are going to need him and all the rest of our big men playing well in these next weeks and into the playoffs.
What happened to Jones? A month ago, Jones was the perfect fit next to Dwight. Now, he just look terrible.
Nothing happened to Jones. We are now going down the stretch and playing games against quality opponents that mean something. Jones is the same player now he was then. He'll probably throw up an 18/12 game against either Detroit or Orlando in the next week. And the same posters will be touting how he has went through the rookie wall and now he's gonna be just fine, blah blah blah. And then he's gonna suck hind titty against Miami and Indiana and Portland and OKC and Chicago. Just like he's been doing all season.
We have a big hole at the 4,Jones sucks and I can't trust DMo either,too bad we could not trade either of them for Patterson.
DMo is getting there... He's upped both his 3PT% and FT% to respectable levels. If you ask me, the whole 'TJ needs to start because he can score right away' thing is nonsense. DMo is an even better scorer, who actually improves our teamplay both offensively and defensively. At this moment, DMo should start AND finish games. TJ needs to have his minutes reduced.
DMo does make our offense better than TJ and his defense is improving. But he is still woefully lacking defensively. As for TJ, the truth of the matter is he should not be in the game or the rotation. He should be on the bench. He is not adding anything and is only taking away from us. But now we're at a place where if we bench him we lose the trade value we've built up with him with all these meaningless numbers he's thrown up by collecting junk baskets and rebounds off the overplay of Howard/Harden.
