uptempo wrote:
32 wrote::wink: Some things never change, uptempo.
Our division between Mullin's effectiveness as a GM remains one of them. Entertaining as it is, I don't think Biedrins learned to be lazy from Adonal Foyle. I think his aggression, in all facets of the game, evaporated. When his free-throw shooting became a league-wide joke, he stopped taking it inside on offense (which was the only place he could score). After a while, the offensive glass went too, because he didn't want to chance getting sent to the line on a hack. And then his whole game just became passive. I don't know if it's laziness so much as fear. And, to his credit, it seems like what he's most afraid of is failing. Stings of cruel irony that his fear of failure is tanking his career like this.
Biedrens was effective when he had Baron Davis running the offense and giving him, Biedrens, perfect passes off of the pick-and-roll. The poor free throw shooting is fixable, but only if Biedrens applies himself to do it. Sadly, he seems to have lost his motivation for any improvement.
His best year was the year after Davis left.
AB:
07-08 GSW 76 59 27.3 0.626 0.000 0.620 3.4 6.4 9.8 1.0 0.7 1.2 1.12 3.45 10.5
08-09 GSW 62 58 30.0 0.578 0.000 0.551 3.6 7.6 11.2 2.0 1.0 1.6 1.77 3.81 11.9 <---------12ppg, 11RPG
09-10 GSW 33 29 23.1 0.591 0.000 0.160 1.9 5.9 7.8 1.7 0.6 1.3 0.97 3.55 5.0
BD:
07-08 GSW 82 82 39.0 0.426 0.330 0.750 1.2 3.5 4.7 7.6 2.3 0.5 2.83 3.01 21.8
08-09 LAC 65 60 34.6 0.370 0.302 0.757 0.7 3.0 3.7 7.7 1.7 0.5 2.97 2.97 14.9 <----------- YEar that BD went to LAC
Heck, you could argue that Baron's numbers indicate that BD needed Andris more then Andris needed BD....
Some things never change, uptempo.
: 2010 - 2011
