the advanced statistics don’t like him. If he were on the Blazers his usage would go down and his weaknesses would become more glaring. Just a thought though.

I saw him guard a chair once. He held his own.

I saw him guard a chair once. He held his own.

His PER last year was 16.74, which is just above an average NBA player, (15.0), shows he is an inefficient scorer, with a TS% of 51%,and no ability to create for anyone but himself, as his 3.8 turnovers against just 5.3 assist per game show. While he is good at going to the rim to score for himself, there is little else he can do effecitvely in the NBA.

His defense is better discribed as “looking busy” than anything close to looking like a player that knows sound defensive principles or team defensive concepts. He is tall for a PG at 6’3", but he gets lost more than Travis Outlaw on defense, especially when his man doesn’t have the ball. Ofcourse playing in GS might have alot to do with that, but it could just be him too, as there are other GSW players who look at least show defensive potential.

On a team like the GSW, who allow him to play 40+ mins a night, he will always score over 20 a game, but on a good team he will never be more than a bench role player, who provides a spark off the bench. For the money he is making there are far cheaper, and better players, Bayless being one of them. If you put Bayless on GS and turned him loose, you would basically have Monta Ellis, a scoring PG who can’t see the floor well, but can get to the rim and score with the best of them. Monta is a better shooter than Bayless, but Bayless is better and drawing fouls and hitting foul shots which makes him more efficient than Monta, (53.4TS% to 51%).

Monta is simply a product of the GS system, and once he is traded, depending on who he is traded to, we will find out what he really is as a player.