Has a 19 PER right now. But surely the corpse of Joe Johnson will do anything better than he has done. Isaiah Canaan(who was doing good before the tragic injury) for Bobby Brown, now Troy Williams for Joe Johnson. I won't even mention another wing player who's behind him in the depth chart.
Wow! If a talent-heavy team like the Knicks found a need for Troy, just imagine what an impact he would have made on a weak roster like this year's Rockets. Fire Maori!
All i needed Johnson to show me was him getting doubled in the post and passing the ball to a wide open Gordon. That's instantly makes him better for our team than Williams. This team needs the playmaking Johnson can provide. We already have a gunner in Green.
We're not the ones who overpay the Troy Williamses, we're the ones who find them and give them perceived value so that some loser franchise like the Knicks will overpay them.
I'd be more annoyed by this if we didn't have Gerald Green. He's more fun to root for anyhow. Joe can provide a unique utility if we need someone outside our normal guys to stop the bleeding in a tough playoff environment. He hasn't been great, but he still could be.
1) wrong forum 2) 52-14 3) 1st place in the West by 1.5 games 4) 1st place in the league 5) nobody cares (i'm only here and responding cuz it's a slow day at work)
Congrats to him, he's been playing hard. When the knicks started playing him in the fourth quarter in front of Beasley I knew it was only a matter of time before he got his bread. Morey's team is really good at talent evaluation and I know it was hard for Morey to cut him but looking at how well Troy has played on the big stage, I think Morey knew he was holding Troy back because MDA was not going to play him. I wish him much success
100% agree with this. I went to the game last night and Johnson ability to post up inside helped us get easy shots including himself. Dallas was actually playing some really good defense but we had size advantage over Smith Jr. and midget Jordan Barrea. Being able to have a post presence when shots aren't falling/teams are playing us differently in the playoffs will be huge for us when the game slows down. Love that we added this dimension and also a high IQ player as well who has seen it all in the playoffs and will not shy away from a big shot. As mentioned, we already have a better version of Troy Williams in Green. Morey can find players like Williams pretty easily and he is not what this team needs right now so however Williams career plays out so be it.
They play more minutes on non contenders. They have more freedom to make mistakes. You saw Troy played with us, his defense wasn’t great. And this year his shooting wasn’t either but prob because he had very few minutes in. D’Antoni wasn’t gonna rely on Troy anyway. So he was just gonna be a bench warmer. It looked like Joe was gonna be a bad pick up but I think he will be fine. He showed glimpses of what he can do on the post and in the playoffs. We should thank Joe because if he hadn’t torched the clippers, Chris wouldn’t be here. Joe look find on Sunday. As for cannan he play ok but we already knew what he brought to the team. He was with the rockets. We only signed bobby instead of Cannan because he brought in chemistry with our players. And to be honest Cannan like Troy wasn’t gonna get any minutes. So it’s all cool man We are good.
