IMHO....... James Anderson = Marcus Denmon

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Originally Posted by Kidd K

I don't think anyone expected him to be a star, I was just pointing out that it was incorrect to say "a lot of teams are having success with "tweeners" when basically none were.

When I heard the phrase "tweener", I don't think "height" as much as I do their skillset. After all, 6'3" isn't undersized if you know how to play PG. But if you don't have PG skills, then you're just a short SG, so you're called a "tweener".

In other words. . ."tweeners" tend to just be undersized, ball hogging, chucking SGs who don't have great playmaking or ballhandling skills or both. It's not just about the height. . .the height really doesn't apply except when the player doesn't have much skills at the point.

So a tweener's just a short SG with limited skills. Mostly just shooting and possibly a bit of slashing. Scoring essentially, and nothing else. So teams tend to not have success with those kinds of players because they're one dimensional.

We already have Neal for that (who as we all know is streaky, and useless if he isn't hitting his shots), so we don't exactly need Denmon. I guess they just wanted another body for the Toros.

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If he can shoot as well as Neal and has better ballhandling and defense he would be an upgrade.

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Originally Posted by G-Dawgg

Don't even insult James Anderson with this comparison for fuck sakes....

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Agreed. Denmon has more in common with Jack McClinton than JA.

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Originally Posted by Kidd K

You didn't answer my question.

I asked him to name TEAMS who had success with tweeners.

Not to rattle off a list of sub 6'5 SGs with halfway decent stats.

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76ers went to the NBA Finals with Iverson as their best player.

Chauncey Billups came into the league as a 6'3" guard who couldn't really run the point and developed into an All-Star and a Finals MVP with the Pistons.

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Originally Posted by therealtruth

If he can shoot as well as Neal and has better ballhandling and defense he would be an upgrade.

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Even if he only shot as well as Danny Green, if he brought ballhandling and defense, he'd be an upgrade over Neal.

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Originally Posted by tesseractive

Even if he only shot as well as Danny Green, if he brought ballhandling and defense, he'd be an upgrade over Neal.

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Green shot better than Neal.

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Originally Posted by Mel_13

Green shot better than Neal.

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Oops. I stand corrected.

For some reason I think of Green as a shakier shooter than Neal, but with vastly better defense. Obviously I'm wrong.