It's Time: STEVE FRANCIS

go tell adelman..

 

damn straight.

 

i dont see the offense operating smoothly if he gets in the game. we dont need more chuckers at the guard position.

 

That was some of the worst PG play that I have seen. Mike James and Rafer were awful. Rafer's terrible shooting percentage is killing us. If we had an AVERAGE PG we would be blowing out teams by more than 20 points a game. That is how good we are.

There is absolutely no reason why SF3 should not have gotten minutes tonight considering how terrible James and Rafer were. He is even worse than Sleepy Floyd and that is saying something.

 

i for once, second that.

 

I don't know if Francis is ready, but If there was a time to put him in, tonight was the night...all three played horrible. We won the game because of Yao.

 

So you want to exchange guys who can't shoot straight and turn the ball over...


for another guy who can't shoot straight and turns the ball over?


I'd be shocked if the solution to our PG problems is already on our roster.

 

I quite agree with you.
Watching James play just make me sick. He didn't know how to pass the ball and he was really cold tonight. I just wonder that if Steve isn't ready for the Princeton, why he has. For Luther, he just didn't get enough time, so he is losing confidence.
We just want to see Steve play.

 

Steve should be getting his chance soon....I mean 2-10 from both of them tonight...YUCK !

DD

 

UNLEASH STEVE!

 

Our PG position is one of the weakest amongst the contenders - but I believe Bonzi and Scola coupled with Yao will transform us into a post scoring team more than a team dependent on jumpers and shooting. At least , I hope so...and I hope its enough to cover forour weakness at PG

 

Exactly. So far in his career, Francis has not been a high percentage shooter and his turnovers are very high for a point guard.

Why? What do you guys expect? For him to suddenly become a different player after 8 years in the league?

He has done the same things you are upset with Alston and James for doing throughout his career.

We are winning. We should change nothing unless we trade for a better point guard because Steve isn't the answer.

 

its still too early to say youve been patient

 

Play the guy, could he do any worse than rafer and james on a night like this.

 

If he could do all of that he would be playing right now. On talent alone, even the shell of Steve Francis is better than Rafer Alston and Mike James - the only person who could actually keep Francis out of the lineup is Steve Francis himself.

 

If/When Steve gets his chance I think we'll see a different guy. He'll know the flaws that Alston and James had that led to him getting minutes and he'll change up his game to aviod looking like another AstonJames. Thats the only way Steve will get extended minutes...BE A TRUE PG!

 

oh i forgot- the offense was real smooth tonight
how much worse could it get? from the goof-ups vs dallas (not even being able to properly bring it up in the 4h) to tonights inability to shoot, it has been really smooth.

 

Oh look we won -- another Steve Francis whine thread!

Just like clockwork.

 

All I can think of is Luther's three point shot from last year is keeping him in the game this year. I love the guy, but he's been a non-factor in every minute of every game he's played so far.

As bad or as out of shape as Steve may be right now, he has to be better than nothing (Luther).