About Stuckey, and rookies in general.

[BusBoyIsBack]

The truth is that people just love to bash BK more than anything.

So they ignore the inept coaching of Woodson that led to Acie Law not getting PT, so they can lash out at BK for not taking Stuckey over Law.

The notion that the two are in the same situation and one just outplayed the other is absolutely absurd.

Acie Law showed he was the best PG on this team in the FIRST GAME OF THE SEASON. When he came in after Anthony Johnson stunk and shot an air ball, two things became very evident:

A)He answered questions about whether or not he could take PGs off the dribble in the NBA

B)He clearly showed that he was a better all-around player than Lue or Johnson.

Yet of course, Woody subbed him out.

Just like in the playoffs vs Boston. Acie Law not only could provide for us off the dribble, he was a better defender than Bibby and had better size which made him a much better matchup against Bibby or Rondo.

Yet despite how abysmal Bibby played on the road, Woody never made the switch.

The disparity in his production and Stuckey's is not their talent. The disparity is in the coaching of Flip Saunders and Mike Woodson.

The idea that Mike Woodson was better than Billy Knight is absolutely absurd.

Billy Knight, despite the CP3/Deron/Roy misses, put together one of the most promising young rosters in the NBA.

Mike Woodson on the other hand, has made some of the most incompetent moves in coaching history.

[lunar]

playing the starters against miami was a dumb move (devil's advocate would be to say that he didn't want to reward the starters for doing nothing since we backed into the playoffs) but for the season in general, it was alot of bad luck for law with him getting hurt. with that said, you can't discredit AJ for playing good, he played above himself for almost half the year (he did the same thing for the pacers taking them to the playoffs one year.) it was more than him getting playing time.

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playing the starters against miami was a dumb move (devil's advocate would be to say that he didn't want to reward the starters for doing nothing since we backed into the playoffs) but for the season in general, it was alot of bad luck for law with him getting hurt. with that said, you can't discredit AJ for playing good, he played above himself for almost half the year (he did the same thing for the pacers taking them to the playoffs one year.) it was more than him getting playing time.

nah AJ was only good in that december run when the whole team overachieved for a stretch.but most of the time he wasn't doing much,just prancing up the court like an old grandma.Acie was embarrasing him when they went head to head in that Sacramento game,he only got saved by Shelden in the 3rd quarter,that big brick wall jumped in front of Acie and he fell on his wrist.The weird thing is that he got up hit 2 FT's,played the rest of the 3rd and a good bit of the early 4th quarter.

but anyways not to just discredit him,anybody is gonna play better with minutes,he got unearned minutes and got comfortable,Acie never had that chance,even when he started those 5 games in the beginning.