Why no minutes for Marcus Landry?

[cdif911]

we've got roster spots open, why haven't we re-signed Gerald Green and Orien Greene yet?

Because at the minute, Kedrick Brown is signing a contract with us.

No Mikki Moore 

Orien Greene is not walking through that door

[Jeff]

with Pierce out, this is the perfect opportunity to Brandon Wallace to get his feet wet

[BudweiserCeltic]

Be afraid, be very afraid:



http://twitpic.com/14ynyu

[Fafnir]

with Pierce out, this is the perfect opportunity to Brandon Wallace to get his feet wet

That's a few "potential all-stars wasting away" ago Jeff.....

[Scribbles]

Why is everyone saying Marcus is a small forward?  Last time I checked he played PF and even a little C at Wisconsin and I highly doubt his dribbling skills improved that much to allow him to play on the wing.  He always was a solid defender, and could hit the outside shot, but he was never a wing. I doubt he'll see any minutes at all for us.  He is however a very mature individual. If you haven't heard about this, or don't remember here was an article about him from when he was at Wisconsin.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=3616868

[clover]

Landry will be lucky to get off the inactive list.

  There's always the Re Claws...

Or as Celtics rookies probably refer to it, the 'Dread Claws'.

[housecall]

Danny told the Big Show guys Marcus looked good today in practice.

[Roy Hobbs]

Why is everyone saying Marcus is a small forward?  Last time I checked he played PF and even a little C at Wisconsin and I highly doubt his dribbling skills improved that much to allow him to play on the wing.  He always was a solid defender, and could hit the outside shot, but he was never a wing. I doubt he'll see any minutes at all for us.  He is however a very mature individual. If you haven't heard about this, or don't remember here was an article about him from when he was at Wisconsin.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=3616868

With the Knicks, he played as a 3/4 (with the majority of his limited time at the 3).  It's similar to Brandan Wallace, who was a C in college, but who was converted to SF with the Celts.

[Chris]

Danny told the Big Show guys Marcus looked good today in practice.

So he will probably be cut tomorrow.

[PosImpos]

Marcus may get some time tomorrow since he's one of our few wing reserves with size and Pierce will be out.  I don't think Doc is insane enough to put Scal on LeBron.

[PLamb]

Marcus may get some time tomorrow since he's one of our few wing reserves with size and Pierce will be out.  I don't think Doc is insane enough to put Scal on LeBron.

I think he's insane enough

And I think he would be right

Tony Allen and Marquis Daniel's will get the yeoman's amount of minutes guarding Lebron but if they get into foul trouble thinking Doc would use Landry before Scal might be more insane than thinking he should

Landry doesn't know the defensive system
Landry doesn't know where to funnel LeBron for help
Landry doesn't know the rotations on pick and roll defense
Etc
Etc

Landry, for all I know could be a better physical specimen and physical match up for LeBron than Scal

But Scal's knowledge of the system, experience in guarding players much better than him and experience with his team mates and their tendencies and defensive habits easily makes him the 100% correct pick as the third option to guard lebron over Landry

[billysan]

Looks like TA or Scal will start at SF and the other will be the back up. With Daniels now likely out with the flu and Pierce still injured, Landry may get a few minutes. There really isnt any other choice at this point if we get any kind of foul problems. I think we can kinda count on Scal picking up a few fouls quick on this one.

[bel-ami]

Clever and funny OP.

[PosImpos]

Well, at least we'll have an excuse when we lose to the Cavs tomorrow.  You can't beat the Cavs when you have no true SF to guard the best player on their team (and in the whole world).

[connerhenry43]

i did not read all 3 pages, but to answer the original question:

because he is not a very good basketball player.