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I turned on RMJ once he retired from the game of basketball.
JK, just wanna say how impressed I am by Gary Neal so far. I'm not ready to eat crow and say I was completely wrong about us needing RMJ back, but at this point it is looking like Gary Neal was a fantastic pickup for us. However, I am slow to say he's for sure, without a doubt, a better player than RMJ, because RMJ did this exact thing for us 2 years ago, everyone thought he was the next great Spur before everyone turned on him once he hurt his shooting wrist.
Keep in mind it has only been 3 games before all of you start nicknaming him 'The Savior'.
RMJ is completely sucking for the Knicks this season though, so I think it's safe to say we made a good decision.
I turned on RMJ once he retired from the game of basketball.
Pffffft.
Sorry to disappoint you O.J., I know you were coming in ready to bash me.
RMJ's main problem was he was made a starter when he should have been a rotation player like Neal is now. Come in hit shots or sit on the pine. Manu should have been a starter when Hedo was here but because Hedo was garbage off the bench Manu played that role, then it was someone else blah, blah blah...these guys are bench players who need the mentality of a bench player or else you turn them into something their not. STARTERS who can't start.
Nah, his problem was Pop played him at PG at end of 08-09 season and it killed his confidence, and he had never played PG before so he was adjusting to it mid-season.
Last year, he broke a bone in his shooting hand and had to wear a splint, and was only getting minutes as a backup PG.
I'm pretty sure half my posts are just me owning people about RMJ. It's pretty funny that I can take a player that polarizing and bad, and completely dominate everyone.
I went to a Knicks pre-season game
RMJ played well
Oh wait, it was against the Raptors
Nevermind......
Well said.
Neal has already shown better ball control and court vision than RMJ. Mason Jr., even at his best, was a one-trick pony. He was there to hit the three and maybe be decent on defense, which he wasn't.
Neal is a better defender, better ball handler, and has a lot of supplemental skills that RMJ lacked. His fundamentals are just better, even if he might not be quite as good of a shooter as Mason Jr. was.
Although pre-season. Neal is 1-1 for game winners. That second unit we have has been killer. Hopefully then carry on tonight.
I like Neal's cold-bloodedness. This team can benefit from that. RMJ looked lost and confused most of the time, like he didn't really want the ball.
Great points and something most of us probably hadn't considered.
One other thing on Mason, the more he played and the more teams scouted him, the more his flaws became exposed, After the hype surrounding those game-winners, teams started forcing him to take the ball off the dribble. We all know he had terrible handles and had issues finishing at the rim.
If Neal was forced into a starting role, it'd be curious to see what and when would be his "point of diminishing returns" - if at all.
At least Neal tries. I distinctly remember a overweight RMJ getting schooled on transition D and PnR D. Pop didn't change his role, RMJ changed it with his horrible D forcing Pop to sit his lazy ass. So what if you can knock down a 3 in the last seconds of a game if you are going to give up layups the entire game to inferior teams. Neal had to earn everything he has, otherwise he would be choking on the smoke filled arenas in Turkey still. There is no special treatment, the Spurs org. have simply noticed that Neal has a much greater ceiling on both sides of the floor. After 1 solid game you can already see the upside.
So if you play point guard you forget how to shoot? He was bad even before his broken hand. The delusion of some. He tuned out, after his massive playoff fail, its simple, he couldn't get over it, because he was weak mentally.
ya got me! dammit
Shout out to ST'er ROGER FREEMASON JR.
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