This seems to be true. It appears he wants as many shooters on the floor as possible. For the record I would have liked to have picked up Marshall as well, but until he gives Watson a chance to play, who is a pure PG, I am not sure he would give someone like Marshall minutes either. So after this year I would assume Marshall would have moved on to somewhere else anyway. Stotts seems to not want a player on the floor that can't make the other team pay when left open to double another player. I can't argue with his theory. Not yet anyways.
If we would have picked up Marshall, it wouldn't have been for immediate impact. I think most of the people who wanted him, myself included, were thinking down the road. He would have been nice to have on our bench, to bring along with guys like Robinson, Leonard, Crabbe, etc, and I would have liked to see him on our SL team.
We still can have him for the future. Isn't he a FA this summer? I am not so sure sitting him on our bench or sending him to Idaho would have given us an advantage. This summer he will be looking at the best situation for himself. Without playing him now, I just don't think it would have been in Rip City.
Not this crap again, while I was not on this forum to blast people for suggesting we sign Marshall instead of Lillard as our PG, I am here now to say Kendall Marshall is complete garbage despite what ever inflated numbers he is putting up on the Lakers D-League circus act.
Never thought Marshall was very good.. Still don't. There are other people I'd rather have. Sent from my banana using Tapatalk 4
Never said they were I am just stressing that despite a few nice games in Laker land this kid was not worth picking up especially considering we have no playing time to offer him. Furthermore outside of a single victory in Utah the Lakers have lost by double digits in the four other games Marshall has played over 20 minutes. Including his latest 2-13 and 6 TO fiasco against the Rockets.
I would much rather have Kendall Marshall as our third point guard, rather than Earl Watson. At least with Marshall we could try to develop him into either something that could be traded later, or into a backup point guard that could play next to Dame. As much as I like Earl, the dude has maybe one or two years left in the league. He's more of a coach at this point.
Exactly why Watson is probably a better third PG to have, he is a guy that does not need to play in order to develop or to be content. Furthermore, who knows what his impact at practice is, between him and Mo Williams people like Lillard and McCollum could be learning a lot.
We can only dress 12 having him on the roster guarantees an easy decision for at least one of the three roster spots that will not dress each night. If you are truly interested in having Marshall on the roster then having him in Laker Land playing significant minutes and getting NBA experience is a lot more beneficial than burying him on the bench and hoping he learns a few things during practice, which we all know occur less and less as the season continues. Sure it may cost the team a little more to sign him in the off season but at least this way the team will have a decent idea of what he is actually capable of on an NBA court.
At this point he's not going to happen. The whole point of this thread was to pick him up for virtually nothing as a free agent when nobody wanted him. Now he'd be worth at least a few million as a free agent next summer.
That is true but with Mo Williams opting out presumably to seek more money and a longer contract the team will need to sign a back up PG this summer. The question then becomes is Marshall worth adding as a back up PG over Mo Williams or someone else.
