<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">With an ambitious five-team trade nearly official, the Miami Heat have reshaped two-fifths of their starting line-up with one swift day. This Heat team, just a few minutes away from the NBA Finals, elected not to safely ?run it back? with the Jones? of Damon and Eddie and will instead bring in two talented, yet unpredictable and volatile players in Jason Williams and Antoine Walker. Looking first at how this hurts/improves the Heat at the point guard spot, Damon Jones was better statistically than Jason Williams in nearly every category. He had a better field goal percentage and was vastly better from the 3-point line, shooting 43% compared to Williams? 32%. Jones was also stellar during the first two rounds of the playoffs versus the Nets and Wizards, but during the conference finals, particularly in Games 6 and 7, Jones was a liability to the club. He was held to just eight points during those final two games. Pat Riley and company apparently didn?t see Jones, an ultra journeyman who has played for nine teams since coming into the league with the Nets in 1999, as the point guard who would get the Heat to the Finals. </div> Source
