Why no minutes for Marcus Landry?

[celticinorlando]

he might get some tomorrow with every SF sick

[arctic 3.0]

I love definitive statements with out anything backing them up.

[connerhenry43]

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

because he is not a very good basketball player.

ok, ok, i just read the OP. the joke is on me. good one! very funny!

[cdif911]

uh oh, Marcus has been hanging with the Truth too much already

[clover]

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

These are some great pics of him with his kids:

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/flash/zoomGallery?section=gen&photoGalleryId=3617286

Photos #6 & 7

[clover]

Oh, and playing college ball as a skinny 6'7" center might not have been the best opportunity to show what he can do at the NBA level.

[TerreHaute]

As a Wisconsinite, I can say that this kid understands defense, roles, and limitations (the game of basketball)better than 90% of the players coming into the draft each year based on the great coaching he has gotten from Bo Ryan. That does not, however, mean he is good enough to play with any consistency

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

[gar]

No Joke. Think of him as a much cheaper more athletic Scal!

[Brickowski]

Is he really going to get minutes ahead of Shelden Williams?  Really, what did Shelden do to deserve this?

[GranTur]

If Marcus Landry plays tomorrow, it will be for 10 minutes to cover for Tony when he is on the bench.

Otherwise, Tony will be out there for 38 minutes tomorrow in Lebron's face.

[slamtheking]

He'll see as much court time as Walker and Giddens ever would---which is none at all.

Doc'll run Ray and TA into the ground (with some Veal thrown in) covering Lebron.  Landry won't see the court unless Ray and TA have fouled out or are close to it with entire half to play.

[PLamb]

I would love to know the reasoning behind why anyone here thinks that an undrafted rookie free agent that was a throw in in a deal to make salaries work and who only was good enough to play a total of 108 minutes on a team that is soooooo bad that they currently have the 5th worse record in the league is good enough to get ANY minutes under ANY circumstances on a team that is fighting for HCA in the playoffs

This one really baffles me

I don't care that Pierce and Daniels will be out

Tony Allen, Ray Allen and Brian Scalabrine are more than adequate enough to man the 2 wing positions for a game

[Evantime34]

I would love to know the reasoning behind why anyone here thinks that an undrafted rookie free agent that was a throw in in a deal to make salaries work and who only was good enough to play a total of 108 minutes on a team that is soooooo bad that they currently have the 5th worse record in the league is good enough to get ANY minutes under ANY circumstances on a team that is fighting for HCA in the playoffs

This one really baffles me

I don't care that Pierce and Daniels will be out

Tony Allen, Ray Allen and Brian Scalabrine are more than adequate enough to man the 2 wing positions for a game

I have no problem bringing him in, in order to foul LeBron once he gets a head of steam in the game.

[sk7326]

if he can pick up the defense quickly and make his rotations crisply (given his alma mater - there is a decent chance this is the case) ... even with a lack of offensive skill he might have some potential

[BudweiserCeltic]

I would love to know the reasoning behind why anyone here thinks that an undrafted rookie free agent that was a throw in in a deal to make salaries work and who only was good enough to play a total of 108 minutes on a team that is soooooo bad that they currently have the 5th worse record in the league is good enough to get ANY minutes under ANY circumstances on a team that is fighting for HCA in the playoffs

This one really baffles me

I don't care that Pierce and Daniels will be out

Tony Allen, Ray Allen and Brian Scalabrine are more than adequate enough to man the 2 wing positions for a game

I have no problem bringing him in, in order to foul LeBron once he gets a head of steam in the game.

Or to punch him in the face. Either would work.