Whats with this new editing format that asks for a reason?
A team is just that a team. You can't isolate a player and evaluate their worth without putting them in the context of the rest of the team. The are a just a piece of the whole. JJB nor any other player can't nor should they be evaluated in isolation. Thats why often a player when they are traded to a different team gives an entirely different result. Numbers don't always translate from one team to the other.
The problem with the mavs started under Nelson who filled the team with offense motivated outside jump shooters. "Run TMC" that was his ideal for a team. The years since have been spent trying to restucture the team into a more normal mode. You need a multifacited team to win a champianship. This requires multifacited players not players that bring outstanding talents but also major deficiancys along with them.
A lot of you roast JJB over the fire. He has become the scapegoat for the inherent flaws of the team. You hate him because it is the easiest way to release your frustrations. You don't want to see the real problem realistically because that might treaten your idealic perception of a player you love. So you project your favored players sins and flaws onto JJB. Some of you also believe that JJB interfers with playing time for another player who you are convinced would be a star if he only had the chance. In Psych terms it's called Displacement. It's like the wife who attacts the police that she called to protect her from her husband. Or blames the girlfriend instead of her man. There
Some of you also believe that JJB is the reason that DJ is not getting more playing time and thus it is he that is keeping him from developing into the star that you believe DJ can be. That may well be true but it is not objective to assess JJB under that kind of bias. All his flaws are magnified and his plus'es minimized through those biased eyes.
I am not a JJB fan. I for some time have thought that we needed to acquire another backup point. But people some of you have been very unfair with him both this and last season. I have also for years been a critic of RC but he is using him because he has at present no other realistic viable option to what JJB brings to fill specific team needs.
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