My$hkin drops Green for Dooling
We discussed Gerald Green here; he started tonight for Jason Terry, but only played 14 unimpressive minutes. His role going forward is still unclear, though he certainly turned heads with his performances in J-How's absence.
Now Green has been dropped for the redoubtable Keyon Dooling, who competently started three games at PG for the Nets in Devin Harris's absence. Harris of course returned last night, scoring 30 points, but Dooling still got 25 minutes, scoring 10 points (though doing little else). Harris is still not 100%, so a gamble on Dooling here is not foolish, but he's not much of a playa, even with a lot of mintues. Mostly empty points, a few 3s, and 3-5 AST if running the point. He has no extra 'upside' to get excited about, and might be called 'a poor man's DeShawn Stevenson', without the excellent defense.
Judgment: We would have hung onto Green and his upside for a few more games, or perhaps picked up someone who might contribute in interesting categories. Dooling's low-neg, and will score a bit, but how much is that really going to help?
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Nice work, Nick. You are a machine for banging out so many posts. But it's hard for us to keep up with sassy retorts.
ReplyDeleteI agree, Keyon is not very sexy when not getting starter's minutes, but I think it's not all that bad. Jersey, like Memphis, and some other teams I can't think of right now are such messes personel-wise that you gotta think someone is going to emerge as a solid 6th or 7th man. It looks like Jarvis Hayes and some yet to be named big guy (Ryan Anderson?) will be those guys for the Nets, but who knows.
Even if he starts, though (in the event of a Carter or Harris injury), he's just not a fantasy contributor. Could he avg more than 12/2/3? Wouldn't you rather have, say, Flip Murray?
ReplyDeleteIndeed. I'm just saying there's some teams with untilled earth.
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