GW's Troubles at PF continues...

[wil]

GW is playing like an all-star! GW is freakin ballin! GW is awesome! GW is a baller stud yada yada yada! GW this GW that!!.. At some point someone should tell him like Jeff n Paul did last night, "he was overmatched down low" "Mo n Peja opened up" etc etc etc.. And if talkin was not enough, D. West showed him by scoring 28pts in 32 mins

He has to play SF everytime period. We give up a lot in playing him at the PF everytime and our W-L record suffers. We have to forget about the all-star numbers he can get across the statline at the PF if it doesnt bring us the W's. I'd take a SF GW 15pts, 7 rebs, 2 stl. 1 blk a night and a bobcat victory every night. if he can do better at SF its all good, bottom line we have to beef up inside offensively and defensively. The most frustrating part of all of these is we have the personel to compete, with Ray, JR, GW, Oak n Nazr starting and closing games.. The problem is our coach doesn't know how to use them simultaneously and effectively.

PS: How thus GW feels if even the most inadequate player in the league (Jeff) is bashing him publicly The nerve

[wil]

http://www.charlotte.com/bobcats/story/451645.html

A couple of great games and this picture shows up!!!

No offence to GW but i hope he continues to play like a star and not start acting like one.

[spectre]

He has to play SF everytime period. We give up a lot in playing him at the PF everytime and our W-L record suffers.

Where was this thread the last two games?

I think everyone in here wants that lineup...but "everytime and our W-L record suffers" isn't quite accurate.

[ohara831]

http://www.charlotte.com/bobcats/story/451645.html

A couple of great games and this picture shows up!!!

No offence to GW but i hope he continues to play like a star and not start acting like one.

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Yeah, he can start acting like Brady when he brings us 3 NBA titles and will compete for a 4th! Oh, it's all in fun I guess. I hate the Patriots.

[MattD]

Feels funny comming from me... but chill out, seriously. David West is the exception because of his nice midrange shot and his ability to bang down low.

Gerald is NOT outmatched when he plays PF against slower guys because he can beat them to the rack

GW is not outmatched by guys who cannot bang, because he can block them and will contest their outside shots. David West is very very underrated. Let this game slid against one of the best teams in the NBA and then watch him tear Pau a new ass. He is good, but David West is so versatile he's hard for ANYONE to guard

one game... one game

[TheBeagle]

http://www.charlotte.com/bobcats/story/451645.html

A couple of great games and this picture shows up!!!

No offence to GW but i hope he continues to play like a star and not start acting like one.

Not sure what the problem with this article is Loved the pic with him sitting in the stands with the popcorn flying out and the jubilant look on his face. That's some classic stuff

If your problem is that he's a Pats fan, so be it, but nothing he says in the interview makes it seem that he's turning 'prima donna' on us. That was a very good, fun interview, I thought, giving us some insight on the man's personal life: he's a hard worker and a kid at heart....what's not to like there?

[Dunk]

What wrong with being a fan of The Greatest Team Evah?

Besides the fact that he violates the 150 mile radius/nearest team Man Rule. Crash is a bandwagon fan!

[qchoops]

He has to play SF everytime period. We give up a lot in playing him at the PF everytime and our W-L record suffers. We have to forget about the all-star numbers he can get across the statline at the PF if it doesnt bring us the W's.

I disagree...and so do the numbers: http://www.82games.com/0708/07CHA6C.HTM - The numbers from 82games.com have the team doing much better with Gerald at the 4 than the 3. The numbers I run actually make the discrepancy even bigger - I did a query for how the team fared when Gerald is on the court and only one of the big men are as well (from Emeka, Nazr, Primoz, Ryan, Jermareo, and Othella), and the results: The team is good - 106.0 points per 100 possessions, only 102.2 against.

And Gerald is averaging 22.4 points and 7.2 rebounds per 40 minutes under those conditions. Not that he will make the All-Star team, but he is worth a look.

[dav7z]

He has to play SF everytime period. We give up a lot in playing him at the PF everytime and our W-L record suffers. We have to forget about the all-star numbers he can get across the statline at the PF if it doesnt bring us the W's.

I disagree...and so do the numbers: http://www.82games.com/0708/07CHA6C.HTM - The numbers from 82games.com have the team doing much better with Gerald at the 4 than the 3. The numbers I run actually make the discrepancy even bigger - I did a query for how the team fared when Gerald is on the court and only one of the big men are as well (from Emeka, Nazr, Primoz, Ryan, Jermareo, and Othella), and the results: The team is good - 106.0 points per 100 possessions, only 102.2 against.

And Gerald is averaging 22.4 points and 7.2 rebounds per 40 minutes under those conditions. Not that he will make the All-Star team, but he is worth a look.

Great post, REP IT UP, All STAR player of the week in the EAST, enough said

[Keetch]

I'm not a fan of over/under numbers; I think they provide big generalizations and can be misleading of individual performance. If I'm looking at stats, I'll take the ones in the good old box scores.

I think Wallace fills in admirably as a PF and can defend most other PF's in the league. The problem is that he often doesn't. You won't find him consistently in the paint on help defense for the Center. His defense is wide-open court; which makes for some spectacular highlights, when he swoops in for a dramatic block; but also leaves Nazr and Emeka exposed for some pretty bad low-lights; when Crash is nowhere near the basket to guard their backs.

So its team performance that suffers some when Crash is the designated PF. I think at SF he plays pretty much exactly the same game that he does at PF; but then the Center is better protected by the other big (referring to Mohammed or May here; Brezac was worthless). Also, perhaps even more important; when Crash is at PF, JRich is at SF; pitting him against much bigger players. It's really obvious.

There are matchups in every game and good and bad times for playing small ball or for playing your bigs. But generally I think the team is better with Wallace at SF if only for what it does for the other 4 positions on the team.

I'll trust what I see with my eyes over what over/unders show. I'm sure the crackerjack lineup of Brezac/Okafor/Wallace helped pull those numbers down alot. Brezac was painfully bad. But of course; as he's said, Primo was the best defender on the team.