Finestrg wrote:Is it too soon to revisit the whole Afflalo vs. Lee comparison? People couldn't wait to run Afflalo outta town and I never understood that. He had a fine year for us last year. Many standout games. Again, to me anyway, we wanted Afflalo to shoot the ball. Needed him to shoot the ball... Never had a problem with Afflalo looking for his last year at all. I welcomed it...To me, Afflalo's got much more potent offensive skills over Lee. So many people thought Lee would be some monumental upgrade at the 2 for us -- that's pure myth...Both are having mediocre years--I don't even think Afflalo's starting for the Kings at the moment--but I take Afflalo for half the contract over Lee all day (2 yrs/$25mm vs. 4 yrs/$50mm). The grass ain't always greener...
The unspoken benefit in the Afflalo vs. Lee comparison is "The Fireman", Justin Holiday. He comes off the bench and gives everything that Lee was brought in to do. Some are clamoring for Baker, the 3rd string SG, to move to the starting lineup. Definitely not over Holiday.
PS. I find it hilarious that Afflalo felt he was too good to be coming off the bench with the 2nd unit for us, but is only a bench player for the Kings.
Sangfroid wrote:Finestrg wrote:Is it too soon to revisit the whole Afflalo vs. Lee comparison? People couldn't wait to run Afflalo outta town and I never understood that. He had a fine year for us last year. Many standout games. Again, to me anyway, we wanted Afflalo to shoot the ball. Needed him to shoot the ball... Never had a problem with Afflalo looking for his last year at all. I welcomed it...To me, Afflalo's got much more potent offensive skills over Lee. So many people thought Lee would be some monumental upgrade at the 2 for us -- that's pure myth...Both are having mediocre years--I don't even think Afflalo's starting for the Kings at the moment--but I take Afflalo for half the contract over Lee all day (2 yrs/$25mm vs. 4 yrs/$50mm). The grass ain't always greener...
The unspoken benefit in the Afflalo vs. Lee comparison is "The Fireman", Justin Holiday. He comes off the bench and gives everything that Lee was brought in to do. Some are clamoring for Baker, the 3rd string SG, to move to the starting lineup. Definitely not over Holiday.
PS. I find it hilarious that Afflalo felt he was too good to be coming off the bench with the 2nd unit for us, but is only a bench player for the Kings.
Point taken on Holiday. I'm a big fan. You're right--he does supply a lot of intangibles we thought Lee was gonna provide. JH definitely needs to keep playing. So glad Hornacek saw his value right from training camp and didn't bury him off his poor preseason play. I wouldn't even mind Holiday seeing additional minutes at backup 3, even when Lance comes back and if LT continues to struggle (we talked briefly about this the other day on another thread -- I seriously wonder if we wouldn't be better off sitting all 3 of Lance/Kuz/N'Dour, and instead give the backup 3 mins. to Holiday and let Baker see some time at backup 2). And you're right with Afflalo -- he did sound off about a bench role here late in the year (part of me didn't blame him, though. We were TERRIBLE last year and I find it difficult to put a lot of the blame on Arron. I could see how he would take that demotion as an insult. Again, I though Afflalo played fine last year. Dude did his job) -- but yeah, I wonder how he feels about coming off the bench now in Sac.?
Even though Lee isn't consistent he brings a more complete game. Afflalo just had no legs left. He couldn't fight through screens and he couldn't attack the rim. He just hit a high number of contested jumpers which doesn't lead to good offensive continuity. Lee can move better off the ball, operate the screen and roll, and isn't as much of a liability defensively(they both failed to live up to their defensive reputations). Lee's shortcomings are more mental on the defensive end whereas Afflalo just had no explosiveness left, maybe from battling his leg issue? The majority of AA's plays came from floppy sets where we would break truangle for him specifically or low post plays where he would nail incredibly tough fall away jumpers. It was pretty stagnant whenever he got the ball, much like Melo always has been. He was effective at getting his though, it just doesn't breed good offensive flow.
