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Yes...because Damon Jones proved to be so clutch and helpful in ECF against Detroit. I believe he scored like 2 pts in Game 7...the game where they really needed him to step up and show his brilliant "outside shooting"
Well Dwayne Wade was asked on ESPN a while ago if he could get ANY player in the league who would he get? His reply was................
Damon Jones!!!! He said they flat out need a shooter.....They even asked if he wouldnt chose Duncan, he was like, Duncans a great player and I love the guy but we have Shaq so we dont need both of them.
I think the Heat are really hurting over their lost of D Jones. Pat made a huge mistake dismantling the core of his team.
Yes...because Damon Jones proved to be so clutch and helpful in ECF against Detroit. I believe he scored like 2 pts in Game 7...the game where they really needed him to step up and show his brilliant "outside shooting"
Damon Jones?!?!
They did ask ANY player right?
He mentioned they needed a shooter and he picks Jones?
There's Peja, Redd, and R Allen, etc..etc..
Funny
Dwayne or Dwyane?
Man they are stupid but they got Jason Williams, i'd definitly rather have Jason Williams manning the point over Damon Jones, the dude can spread the floor with the best of them, of course he does get a bit wild throwing half court three's on a fast break with plenty of time on the clock still, but he can still play great point
He's got good taste to pick the only University of Houston Cougar in the NBA that I know of.
I think this is a matter of politics. He can't very well say some superstar like Ray Allen or anything like that lest his teammates get pissy because he's saying they couldn't carry the scoring load, and obviously he can't say any other big in the league since Shaq would pout, so he picks a role playing shooter who left over money and PT issues. He couldn't very well say Michael Finley without looking desperate.
A while ago? Was that said by Dwyane prior to Damon signing with Cleveland?
He said it this morning when he was on the hotseat.
Interesting. He obviously regrets the move, or non-move, on Damon.
He misses his partying homeboy. Maybe he rolled great blunts or something?
I think the man is stupid, he has sick talent and doesnt need a underachieving point guard to be on his team, he has White chocolate now, who can dish out passes with the best of them....he should be content, i take it as a slap in the face if i was JWill..i'd be pretty pissed
If J-Will was a member of a firing squad, he'd shoot at "AIM!" instead of at "FIRE!".
He said he needed a shooter, not a PG.
Shaq made people think Wade is an all-star, why wouldn't Wade think Jones was better than he actually is, too?
Isn't Wade a freaking Shooting Guard?????
Why the does he need a shooter? he should be improving his shooting skills and not asking for a shooter.
Exactly but Wade was an all star before Shaq got there, he pretty much carried that team to the playoffs the year before shaq got aquirred
Wade is definitely an All-Star. But he does need to improve his shooting, or else it's gonna really be the Antoine Walker Shoot-Fest. And you know how that turns out...
I hate to sound like I'm disrespecting the guy, but Wade was not an all-star before Shaq arrived. He did show tremendous upside in the '04 playoffs, and would probably have been an all-star this year even without Shaq. I've seen people rating him above LBJ and Kobe, in addition to the comparisons to Jordan, which are all ridiculous and premature. Shaq's influence has a tendency to be forgotten or vastly undervalued.
As for the '04 season, Eddie Jones and Lamar Odom probably deserve a little bit of credit, so saying that Wade single-handedly did anything is revisionist history, too.
Don't get me wrong, the kid is a stud, but he's not a top ten player. Lunch is right, though: Wade needs to increase his range, because the Heat should not want Walker and Eboy taking all their threes.
If you really looked at the Heat last year, you would see Wade was more of the PG and Jones the 2.
I wouldnt compare him to Kobe, or Jordan, but i would with LBJ i dont think LBJ is that great either, he's just the only option on his team. Look for his stats to diminish greatly as this season moves on now that he has a supporting cast. Dwayne Wade showed the world he was going to be an all star in 2004 and he held up to it in 2005, the dude can play and is without a doubt an all star with or without shaq
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/column...ric&id=2155597
Updated: Sep. 15, 2005, 11:30 AM ET
Miami moves puzzle, disappoint JonesBy Ric Bucher
ESPN The Magazine
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For someone who has played for nine teams in seven years and never lasted anywhere more than one season, Damon Jones sure is having a hard time saying goodbye to Miami.
Jones, 29, will be introduced this afternoon as the new starting point guard for the Cleveland Cavaliers, right after he signs a four-year deal worth as much as $16 million. It's easily the longest and richest contract he ever has been offered. After giving the Heat one last chance to keep him, Jones flew to Cleveland on Wednesday afternoon and spent the evening being wined and dined by GM Danny Ferry and an assortment of Cavs officials.
No one has ever showered this much love on a guy who couldn't even land an NBA training-camp invitation his first two years out of the University of Houston, lasted until the fourth round of the CBA draft, and spent his formative years playing with the Black Hills Posse (IBA) and Jacksonville Barracudas (USBL).
This, then, should be the happiest day of Jones' professional career. Yet it's not.
Or at least it wasn't as of early Thursday.
"This was the hardest decision I've ever had to make," said Jones by phone, in between physicals early Thursday morning. "It's tough to talk about, even now. It won't really sink in that I'm a Cavalier until I put my name on that contract. It's still disappointing that I'm not going back to a team that was a minute and a half away from going to the Finals."
Now he joins a team that he described as "on the cusp of being good." He loves that he's coming in on the ground floor of an emerging franchise, that first-year coach Mike Brown scratched his way through the coaching ranks the same way Jones did as a player, that he's arriving with Larry Hughes and Donyell Marshall, and that LeBron James can't posterize him again as he did with a fast-break dunk Feb. 3 on TNT.
"Instead of being on the other end, I can be the one throwing him lobs," Jones said.
But for all that, Jones knows that the Cavs aren't ready to contend and that a lot of question marks about their chemistry and cohesion will have to be answered before they are.
That's why he'd still be in Miami had the Heat simply been willing to increase his salary more than a few hundred thousand above the $2.7 million he would've received had he not opted out of his two-year deal. The Cavs, after all, reportedly are starting him at $3.5 million. It's hard to believe the Heat, had they reeeeeeally wanted to keep Jones, couldn't have matched that.
And to hear Jones tell it, he won't be the only one disturbed about his departure from the Heat. Shaquille O'Neal and Dwyane Wade repeatedly offered to exert their influence on Heat management to get Jones re-signed. One conversation with Shaq this week lasted 2 1/2 hours, he said, and got "very emotional."
"But I didn't want them to say anything," Jones added. "I wanted to be brought back for my contributions on and off the basketball court, nothing else."
Jones also indicated that coach Stan Van Gundy had his back. Despite the acquisition of Grizzlies point guard Jason Williams in this summer's ginormous five-team, 13-player deal, Jones had been told he would remain the starter. That could've been propaganda to get Jones back in the fold -- or it could point to the threat of fissures between Van Gundy and president Pat Riley that bringing in Williams, James Posey and Antoine Walker poses. Riley, as with all personnel chiefs, will want the new pieces provided every opportunity to demonstrate how wise it was to get them. Van Gundy, as with all coaches, will want to stick with the players he knows and can trust.
"Now that I'm on the outside looking in, it's going to be tough," Jones said. "They're going to be successful, but Stan is going to have a problem coaching those personalities."
Although Jones thanks Riley for the chance last season afforded him, he is baffled by the team's extreme makeover.
"I've been scratching my head from Day One," he said. "I can't give you a real reason why it had to be done. We lost to the defending champions with a whole lot of things that didn't get airplay. Udonis [Haslem] had a broken finger; Eddie [Jones] was having knee problems; Dwyane was hurt; and I got two cortisone shots in my ankle so I could play in Game 7. Pat Riley had a vision of, I don't know, the Showtime Lakers and a bunch of big names. I just wish we could've done what the Detroits and San Antonios and even the Lakers in their championship years did -- keep everybody together and build that championship continuity."
That, of course, is no longer his concern. Despite the Cuyahoga love, owner Dan Gilbert's money and whatever he might say, Jones leaves the lingering impression that he still wishes it were.
Ric Bucher covers the NBA for ESPN The Magazine and collaborated with Rockets center Yao Ming on "Yao: A Life in Two Worlds."
You could not offer better proof of how overrated Wade is if you tried. If LBJ has no supporting cast, then I wonder how people explain seven assists per game. He also had a better year than Kobe, and he's only 20. Given that as a follow up to his rookie year, that's pretty in' great, in my book.
I never said Wade couldn't play, and I'd take him on my team any day of the week, but if he thinks Damon Jones is the most valuable addition to his team, then he ain't too bright.
I have a crush on 1Parker1.
By the way Damon Jones sprained his ankle badly in that game. That might have to something with why he struggled. Damon Jones is a great addition to Cleveland and Miami is stupid for not resigning him.
LBJ no supporting cast?? The Cavs have been scrambling to make him happy since the first day he was drafted. This season he definitely has a supporting cast, let's see how far they go
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