Those numbers are highly skewed at best. Those are his numbers as a starter with Manu out. Add Manu back in at 30+mpg and it changes everything.
Barry shoots better when he gets more minutes and takes more shots. We've seen it many times this season. With Manu back, as a starter or off the bench, Barry's minutes go down and his splits as a starter with Manu out don't really reflect how he'll respond then.
Unless of course we give Barry all of Devin's minutes and Devin permanently rides the pine.
The argument for bringing Manu off the bench to save him for the fourth, I can sort of understand, even if I don't agree. Doing it to help Barry is asinine. You'd think people would have learned with Hedo.
Off topic, but not all the way off topic ...
Did you see the headband Manu was sporting at shootaround today ...
http://www.woai.com/mediacenter/?videoId=95222,565
He left it in SA so he won't be using it in the next road games.
He said some of his teammates called him Rambo.
He also said he might play vs Pistons but he doesn't know if he will come off the bench or as a starter.
Last edited by kolko; 03-20-2005 at 12:37 AM.
I understand having him come off the bench after this injury but I think he deserves to keep his starting job. Even though he's tough and can play off the bench remember how he played after being told he was going to get benched. He was trying way to hard and ended up playing very poorly. I don't want to see that again.
Manu lost his starting job lmao.
Told ya. Dude hasn't validated anything.
He didn't exactly lose his starting job. He's coming off an injury and may or may not start when he comes back. We'll see how it plays out.Manu lost his starting job lmao.
There is an unwritten rule in all pro sports.
You don't lose your job due to injury.
Unless you play for Pop.
What Barry can't come off the bench? He has Hedoitis?
No one said that Barry was going to keep starting except for timvp. Pop just said they may ease Manu back into the rotation.
As much as I hated the thought initially, Manu coming off the bench is starting to make a lot of sense to me. Barry has proven that he is not the spark plug off the bench that many fans had hoped, and Manu is a spark plug whenever he’s in the game. Barry is a liability on defense. Starting the game with Tim behind him to cover up his mistakes makes sense. And Manu’s defense and scoring threat is most needed during Timmy’s breaks, especially at the end of the first quarter, and the beginning of the second.
I hate rewarding Barry’s inferior play with a starting position, but Pop has to maximize the situation where each player’s skill set can be best used. In the past I had been in favor of using Barry like Pop used to use Kerr – strictly as a second (or third) shooter when the defense packs it in. But it’s obvious that Barry has more to contribute than just shooting. Since it seems that Brown has proven that he’s better than Barry off the bench, you have to figure some way to get the most out of him.
If Pop does decide to experiment with starting Barry in front of a healthy Manu, the outcome has to be shown to be fruitful very quickly. It’s too late in the season for this kind of rotation experiment. So if we don’t see clear improvement after two or three games, look for Barry to drop almost completely out of the rotation.
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Apology Accepted, TimvpApology Accepted.
Damn, timvp is good.
Manu started today. That's what u do if the guy is an AS.
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