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I dispute your claims that he can score at will. He can score when given tons of shots and freedom to alienate teammates.
Arenas isn't AI not as quick not as good in the mid range not as good passing not as good playing defense.
When he had us at .500 we had played what 15 games or so . He's played complete seasons where none his teams have succeeded no need reaching for a small sampling we have enough evidence to see what kind of talent he is.
I'm not saying that Jamison is our answer either. I had reservations about the trade if you remember. The fact that yoiu have questions about him make sense but he's done more in his career than Arenas has and he's played on a winning team. He was the 6th man of the year so he's learned of sacrifice and what it takes to win.
It doesn't take Arenas and Jamison heaving up a ton of shots and not playing defense and creating to's.
I'm not sleeping on Arenas's game at all I'm just seeing it realistically. I've seen his type players before many times over.
Arenas needs to focus on the little things. He's always to preoccupied with getting points and forcing the action. He's never focused on playing defense where he is absolutely dreadful instead he looks to jump the passing lanes for steals and easy buckets.
He needs to do the little things that a pg can do to help his team win, Cut off penetration by the other teams pg, not gambling on high risk passes, controlling the offense by means other than shooting and keeping others involved. By knowing when to milk a matchup advantage by other teammates.
I'm not suggesting that Arenas not shoot and not be part of the offense but he doesn't have to play as if he's the only one capable of contributing for a win.
I just advocate a Jamison/Kwame 1st approach to the offense.
MJ couldn't carry us to the playoffs he averaged more ppg and had a higher fg%. Arenas knows less about the game and has less talent then even an old MJ.
We made a huge mistake if Arenas can't run a team without taking a ton of shots and creating a ton of to's. Thats just not efficient.
We can't have Arenas playing the 2 with a small pg like Blake. Arenas already struggles against pg's he'd get eaten alive at the 2.
Arenas/Boykins didn't get them to the playoffs why make our line-up smaller by playing that way. Grunfeld got Jamison to give us more size wouldn't make sense then to create a mismatch in the back-court.
I just don't see why you feel Arenas jacking up shots and leading us in scoring while shooting horrible makes us a better team.
He can make us better blending in with the rest of our capable offense and making everyone play better.
He'll never be a great player unless he makes those around him better thats what great players do and right now Arenas is along ways away from that. He only seems to anger teammates and let them down with his antics.
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