Dash Posted December 6, 2010 Report Share Posted December 6, 2010 Jonathan_Feigen One more thing from Rox practice: Jermaine Taylor in rotation, Ish Smith out. Courtney Lee backup point. While this might be a short-term move with Brooks' return on the horizon, I love it. Lee has proven to be our best perimeter defender (amongst our guards) and played some of his best defense this season against opposing point guards. Taylor should be getting playing time with most NBA teams, its nice to see him finally crack the rotation. Jermaine can be an instant offense kind of player off the bench and his defense is pretty underrated. Sad to see Ish back on the bench but his production hasn't been very good recently. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
htown11 Posted December 6, 2010 Report Share Posted December 6, 2010 I love the decision involving Courtney Lee, he has really found a rhythm now and he plays solid defense on extremely athletic guards. Jermaine deserves a shot, in the past when they have played him you could tell you really were not seeing Jermaine at his best, he would come out and force up shots because in the back of his mind he knew he was heading right back to that bench in a few minutes so he might as well produce as much as he can in that short amount of time. I think that was hurting him more than helping, giving him legitimate minutes I hope will ease his pain and we see a more patient and smarter JT Not to mention with Budinger playing like such a piece of crap, Jermaine could turn out to be the spark that Bud was last year. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
htown11 Posted December 7, 2010 Report Share Posted December 7, 2010 "I just want to see how it works" :glasses: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dash Posted December 7, 2010 Author Report Share Posted December 7, 2010 I remember a couple nights after the draft I said that Jermaine Taylor would be the best of the 3 draft picks we made. Draft night I told myself if Morey could steal Chase Budinger with no draft picks at all then I would consider that a very successful draft, but of course Morey also came out with Taylor and Sergio Llull. After reading up on Taylor some more and watching some summer league and preseason games, I just felt that he had so more potential and talent than Bud. It wasn't just something I said out of the blue, I actually stuck with my 'prediction' ever since. Anyways glad to see Rick Adelman finally giving Taylor a chance, he gave him one late last season when Ariza was injured and he performed very well (including a 16 point game performance against the Lakers and Kobe praised his defense). I hope he does the same for us again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChosenOne Posted December 7, 2010 Report Share Posted December 7, 2010 I think it will be wonderful against guards like Rose and Westbrook. Hopefully this turns out good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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