The Official 'Complain About Raymond Felton' Drawer

uuuuugggggghhhhhhhh it’s been ugly. Nothing to do but ride it out and pine for Dre, at least for now. Can we start putting cupcakes on the back of the rim to help his 3pt%?

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I hate to put you down Ray…and I’m sure you give a shplit….but you really suck man.

The faster we play that game, the faster we get worse. What I don´t like is that in the last five years we haven´t been able to develope and keep other than Batum, and I wouldn´t say he´s been improving that much. We have had a problem, other than injuries, in the development department. Now the team is limited and we have to stick with what we have. We are always in “win now mode”.

He is a starting quality guard. Just not a playoff quality starting guard. This is not the East where you can blow a few games by blowing cute behind the back passes and still make the playoffs. I don’t know what happened to his three ball. But he is more of a liability than Dre was at the three point line. I’m afraid we are stuck with him for now though.

Ray is doing fine I guess, by his standards. We’ve just been spoiled by the great unheralded Andre Miller who got no respect when he was here, but was the main (or at least#2 reason behind lmas development we were competitive last year). How many easy buckets has lamarcus got this year as opposed to last years dre lob fest? Dre had intangibles that we tried to replace with a slightly better 3 point percentage. I’m not gonna rail on Felton anymore. He’s fine, he’s trying but he is no DRE. (would make a great backup to dre however).

If he could get his weight under control I think he’d be just fine. He seems to tire quickly. Tired legs lead to missed shots and sloppy play.

Maybe he should join Barkley doing Weight Watcher commercials?

But I have been a vocal Raymond supporter, almost to a fault. He hasn’t been what I had hoped for in total, but I’m liking the direction the team is taking (getting everyone involved, much faster pace). What I don’t like are the growing pains (shooting woes, adjusting to new style, coming off post lockout era where few guys maintained the training level needed to succeed).

The following bugs me though:

1) comparing miller to ray. We were below .500 with miller at this time and we would be if he was still here. Get over it.

2) people saying “blow it up”… Obviously Ray still needs time to adjust. Lets stay the course, his stats will improve.

3) Lamarcus – saying he was better with miller doesn’t even make sense. LMa’s stats are better this year. Period.

4) Raymond can get anyone / everyone involved. His assists would be thru the roof if we as a team (including him) could finish at the rim. He distributes and can find teammates. Unlike miller who went one on one lol.

That’s all. Honestly what we need are bigs to rebound and interior presence so we don’t play this small ball.

through about three or four practices.

Here is what I see: Poor execution because of unfamiliarity. He doesn’t know the system yet, ye hasn’t had any real practice time to learn the system and that results in not knowing where to expect the player movement to send the guys around him, which then leads to errant passes, bad spacing, frustration that then leads to ill-advised attempts at driving into traffic, and further turn-overs which kill his confidence and affects his shooting percentage because he’s a half-second behind everything that is going on.

I know it is frustrating as a fan to watch Felton play right now. Believe me, in that first quarter of what would become a blowout against Phoenix last night, I was yelling at my TV in disgust over Felton making stupid passes and racking up turn-overs. To be fair though, you have to know it is ticking him off as much as it is anyone else by the expression on his face and by the efforts he displayed last night to get the ball back after he made those mis-reads.

Give him time, he will come around. The fact remains that he’s had virtually no time to practice with the team, no time to learn the system and his screw ups aren’t due to incompetence, they are due to not knowing the spacing, the routes his teammates are running and the tendencies of those teammates which will all come in time.