Where in the world is Al Thornton?! And can he take the spot of the guy he just dunked on?
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Good question
not sure where AT is. He’s good enough to warm a bench somewhere in the NBA.
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I also checked his twitter
and he said he’s rehabbing.
No way he comes back here though.
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i watched him play for the warriors quite a bit on tv last year .
i think having been cut etc might have humbled him, given on the warriors he was scrappy, passed a lot more, and was much more looking like he was a role player and was ok with it.
i guess the whole “fighting to actaully stay in the nba” thing changed his attitude. just to have a backup SF i think he would be a good veterans minimum signing. i’d rather have him than gomes anyway.
Agreed
He could be a bit of a ball movement stopper but when you are playing on the 2nd unit, that is less of a problem. Scoring is a problem on the 2nd unit and Al could score a bit, mostly in ISO drive, fallback jumpers but a score is a score.
Gomes is unfortunately bringing nothing to this ball club. However classy a guy he is and however good a game he talks, he isn’t helping this team and so really needs to be gone in some way.
Reggie Evans, Kenyon Martin, Al Thornton, Randy Foye, Mo Williams would be a nice bench and quite easily do-able if we can get Kenyon.
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Reggie Evans, Kenyon Martin, Al Thornton, Randy Foye, Mo Williams would be a nice bench and quite easily do-able if we can get Kenyon.
Help us Altered Beast you're our only hope.
Fixed even more.
Reggie Evans, Kenyon Martin, Mo Williams, JR Smith would be a nice bench and quite easily do-able if we can get Kenyon. If VDN keeps up the good work with rotations, he can throw in a starter onto that team (I think it would be Billups or Caron).
One step at a time
but yes JR Smith is on my hit list too.
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by ClipperChuck on Feb 3, 2012 12:50 AM PST up reply actions
Not really
Any injury to a starter and you’ve lost Mo or Kenyon to the starting lineup leaving only 1 scorer on the bench again – that is too much pressure. Foye is fine if he’s not being asked to score loads – he takes too many low percentage shots in my opinion but, if you had other bench players who would be asked to score, he can still do a job.
I think Thornton would be an upgrade over Gomes but I doubt the organisation will go back that way again.
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Any injury to a starter
On nearly ANY team will leave the bench weak.
Yes....................
which is why to try to build a decent bench, something we don’t have. My point is that if you only have 2 people who can score on the bench (and we only have Williams and Foye – to a much lesser extent), if one of our bigs goes down injured, we have nothing to put on the floor, changing the whole dynamic of the team.
If a guard goes down, we can put Mo in but that leaves Foye as our only scorer off the bench. We need to have 3 people off the bench who have some semblence of putting the ball into the basket.
We’ve constantly ignored Ike Diogu, who can score and I must assume that is because we will make a run at Kenyon. I’m not sure about JR Smith but hey, he can flat out score. We need someone else if we are making a run at this whole thing.
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I liked Thornton back in 09...
But he’s seriously not what the team needs. People complained a ton about his chucking back then. I think most of us are just blinded by how bad Gomes is playing. There’s got to be better options.
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….hmmmm wait
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by Takebb909 on Feb 3, 2012 8:54 AM PST via mobile reply actions
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