Crawford will start in place of Raymond Felton tonight against the Spurs

But at least with the sandwich you can clean off the bread and get just a little bit of sustenance!

 

Do we care?

Felton is having such a terrible, terrible, terrible season that it could hardly be any worse from that position.

Think of it this way: we are at rock bottom, stuck in the gutter with the starting PG production. Try Smith. Try a CBA callup. Try Batum. Try Crawford (as is being done). Fucking try anything.

Is there a high chance of success?

Nope.

But, if any or all of the experiments fail, we will be no worse off than we are now.

The time for worrying about how Felton will react or respond is over. He has failed this team.

 

Yep. Masbee is dead on. I really don't see Felton playing in the NBA next year. When you flame out this badly with this much opportunity, it's the end of a career.

Teams wanting a player of Felton's caliber can pick from any of a dozen different guys who are 5-9 years younger. Hungry, upside, humble, cheap.

 

This is a bad move by Nate. This team goes no where without a PG and Felton is the closest thing we have to that. Let him play through it.

 

Agreed.

Your trippin.

 

He has. Haven't you seen his performance the last month? I think he's been "playing through it" enough....time to cut the cord.

 

No he isn't.

There are dozens of guys - right now - who given the same opportunity - would do AT LEAST as well as Felton has done. And some of them will do better, maybe a lot better.

There are few worse starting PG's in the NBA this season. He is in the argument for the very worst in the league.

And, can you name a team that has a PG as bad as Felton, that also does not have a star Shooting Guard or a very promising young guard?

Felton is killing this team.

Killing it.

 

The Knicks would probably take him on the assumption that he can get back to playing the way he did previously under D'Antoni. Don't know how they clear much money for him though.

 

I suppose it's possible. Yeah, if he does wind up with an NBA contract I bet its there as Lin's backup/insurance policy. But even there, if you're the GM, is Felton really the kind of PG you want Lin to hang around?

 

I think it might be a little extreme to deduce that Felton's NBA career is over. Yes, he's terrible and could be replaced, the way he's playing right now, by many marginal players. But Telfair played a number of years at about this productivity, for example, and Felton has been better than this. Felton has almost never been good, but he has been NBA-caliber. I doubt every team in the league is going to decide that, in his physical prime and without some serious injury, Felton has forever lost his ability to be an NBA player. It'll certainly drop expectations for him and his next paycheck, but I'd guess he'll be on an NBA roster somewhere next year. Just not as a starter.

 

Felton would be fine even for us as backup PG. If we had a John Crotty level player to start we could bring in Felton as the 8th man. The problem is our roster has no other PG outside of Felton, Nolan Smith has been just as terrible and is a green rookie, so Felton has had to play a massive role for extended minutes even while he struggles. It's much easier to play 10mpg against backups then 30mpg against starters.

We need to sign Patty! The guy had some competent minutes at PG last year. Hell I was never a Sergio fan but we need to bring in some other options at the PG postion or we will be out of the playoffs. Armon is garbadge and Smith is not ready.

 

True about Telfair, but he was given chance after chance after chance for the absolute worst teams in the NBA those years (the basement dweller Blazers and T-Pups), and while he had that "potential" tag as a very young player.

With Felton, we are talking about a Prime aged player who is surrounded by one of the best Forward rotations in the NBA, and can't figure out how cobble together a passably acceptable season as a starter.

I agree he will land on a roster due to the desperate need for PG's. But, I feel that he has played his way off of the "A" list. Top free agent guaranteed to get a multi-year, guaranteed contract for a starter's position. His agent will have to work very hard, blowing lots of smoke, and Felton may have to prove himself in a camp before a GM gives him a guaranteed contract. He is damaged goods.

 

Batum won't get any touches with Crawford on the court. I don't understand this move.

 

Or that 5 of those assists went to Batum?

 

Hey, my post is looking pretty not bad too. I said I thought Crawford would pass to Batum and that ball-hogging hasn't been Crawford's problem.

My main point of correctness, though, was pretty obvious: whatever it takes to get Felton off the court as a starter = development worth attempting.

 

It's not just any season, it's a lockout year. One that's had virtually no practice time for a team with a new roster along with a coach who has been clueless about his new style of play. Add in a small market with fans and media that over-analyze every fart the players make and you're set up for Failure, err Failton snicker snicker.

Despite the lockout it's still a very long season. He's gonna have a chance to prove himself once and for all after the all star break and into the playoff's. To write him off without heavily weighing in the fact that Nate has barely been able to cobble together a passably acceptable offense is definitely near sighted and premature.

Agreed, on all accounts.

 

I sure as hell didn't think so. I'm happy I look like a fool. I hope I look like a dumb ass for the rest of the season. That means our guards are actually doing their job.

 

The only reason he passed to Nic those 5 times is because LA screamed at him to........ I got proof FAMS!