What Daniels does to our bench players

[snively]

If they package Eddie up with a deal, that's going to hurt us more then help. Eddie's points ALWAYS mean the difference between a W or L and his shots usually start our leads.

Funny I see it as Eddies points are usually the difference between a narrow win, and a blowout. He's almost never the difference maker in terms of winning games and losing them.

So true, i completely agree. Remember when Eddie took the gamewinning shot and air-balled it?

I completely disagree.

We don't win Game 4 of the 2008 NBA Finals without Eddie.

We don't win Game 4 without Posey. The Posey/Pierce small lineup got us back in that game.

The Posey/Pierce/Ray/House small line-up was the best thing in the world.

It was good against the complacent Lakers, but that line-up had big problems rebounding and really had only one point of attack with Pierce.  The Lakers we're trying to guard Pierce with Walton, Radman or Ariza.  It made a lot of sense for the C's to punish this match-up and so they went with a 1-4 spread and let him work.  That wouldn't work much at all against a team with better defense at the 3. 

The C's are at their best when Rondo is playing well and they don't need to go to a predictable spread offense.  I think Sheed's addition will make Rondo more effective and with him the whole team, especially in crunch time.

[mgent]

If they package Eddie up with a deal, that's going to hurt us more then help. Eddie's points ALWAYS mean the difference between a W or L and his shots usually start our leads.

Funny I see it as Eddies points are usually the difference between a narrow win, and a blowout. He's almost never the difference maker in terms of winning games and losing them.

So true, i completely agree. Remember when Eddie took the gamewinning shot and air-balled it?

I completely disagree.

We don't win Game 4 of the 2008 NBA Finals without Eddie.

We don't win Game 4 without Posey. The Posey/Pierce small lineup got us back in that game.

The Posey/Pierce/Ray/House small line-up was the best thing in the world.

It was good against the complacent Lakers, but that line-up had big problems rebounding and really had only one point of attack with Pierce.  The Lakers we're trying to guard Pierce with Walton, Radman or Ariza.  It made a lot of sense for the C's to punish this match-up and so they went with a 1-4 spread and let him work.  That wouldn't work much at all against a team with better defense at the 3. 

The C's are at their best when Rondo is playing well and they don't need to go to a predictable spread offense.  I think Sheed's addition will make Rondo more effective and with him the whole team, especially in crunch time.

Rasheed
Rondo
Paul
Ray
House

Not bad as far as a small line-ups go.  Then you've got daniels.

[Atzar]

i think they like giddens all around game better than walkers so i expect billy to be gone..

What makes you say that, Billy was on the bench last year while Gabe was in the D-League.

just what i have read about how danny and doc feel giddens has surpassed walker. i think they see a guy that can score more than walker and can certainly defend better than billy. if i had to bet on which one of those 2 makes the team it will be giddens

You keep talking about this.  Can you link me to anything where they actually say this?  I haven't been able to find anything - last I heard, they both "played alright" in the summer league and the staff was impressed with Giddens' work ethic heading into the offseason.  Nothing that really implied that they're higher on Giddens than Walker at this point.

[rondofan9]

I love us getting Daniels the guy can play some at Point 2Guard or SF three positions thats valuable and i laugh at some of these Pacers fans that want TA Cuz they dont know what there getting if they do get him