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Originally posted by <b>Shanghai Kid</b>!
I believe the complete opposite, I believe Arenas has superstar potential and can be the #1 option. This was his only year where he shot a bad %, he put up almost the same numbers at a 43% clip a year ago.
Arenas can get to the hoop anytime he wants. He has the potential to offensively dominate at the PG posistion. I don't think it's very hard for Arenas to score 20 points in a game. Look at March, he ran off a 15 game streak where he averaged 27ppg/8 assists/6 rebounds/2 steals.
In the second half of the season in Golden State Arenas put up 22ppg.
I'm guessing you want Arenas to become a roleplaying Bibby/Parker type PG. I don't see it, Arenas is going down the Baron Davis/Malbury/Francis path. His potential as a scorer is huge, that's why he needs to play minutes at SG with Blake at PG. I think Arenas is closer to the All-Star game than Kwame or Jamison.
Arenas and Kwame are who we're building around. Jamison is good, but he's 28, the future is Arenas and Kwame. Both of them are going to have be all-stars for this team to go deep in the playoffs.
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You really believe in Arenas.
I think you're missing the boat big time. Parker and Bibby help make winning plays with less to's.
I don't know if you know it but the to's got us beat last year more than any problem we had. You can't win in the NBA turning the ball over.
You mention March when Arenas was scoring all those points but it just so happened we lost a majority of those games.
I have no doubt that Arenas CAN score but he is never gonna be among the elite in the league as a pg unless he curbs his to's. And if he continues to play recklessly he won't curb them at all and we won't win.
I disagree with whose closer to the Allstar game. I think Jamison is the closest. And Kwame playing the pf/C is closer also because of the lack of quality pf/C depth in the eastern conference.
And that has nothing to do with who's the best player on the team is because those things don't matter anyway.
We're gonna be no better than Francis was in Houston pre Yao if Arenas keeps jacking up shots getting to's and angering teammates.
Whats so wrong with playing like Bibby, keeping his teammates involved, keeping to's low and coming through in the clutch there's nothing wrong with that.
I'm more interested in winning than having Arenas glorified as a superstar because those things don't add up to victory.
I'm a realist though and Arenas will probably get 20+ so will Jamsion, Hughes will get 18, Kwame around 10 and teammates will grumble and mumble we'll be amongst the top scoring teams and rebounding but also amongst the worst defensively and T'O wise. And then by allstar game Kwame could get traded because he'll be the main one complaining about the selfishness and the unwillingness for the team to go inside. So kwame goes and could blow being option 1 on a team where his good shooting won't be spoiled by selfish guards that don't undertsnd sacrifice and winning.
Thats whats real but I'm hopeful nonetheless.