Hopefully, this installment of the
Predicting 2010 series won't be premature. I haven't seen anything from the team regarding the signing of Rodney Carney, but I'm going to toss him into the equation anyway. After the jump, we'll take a look at the stats, projections and try to figure out where he's going to fit in with this roster.
I envision Carney as part of the three-point brigade coming off the bench. Kapono, Carney, Ivey and hopefully Holiday, will be used to help overcome the three-point deficit which will most likely be created by the starters. Is it an ideal solution? No, you'd obviously love to have your starting lineup be able to at least stay even with the opponents from three, but their strengths lie elsewhere. It's going to be up to the bench to come in and stretch the floor.
How well equipped is Carney to be a part of the three-point solution? Well, he's never shot better than league average from three, but his 35% mark ranks him as one of the best for Philly. I don't think he'll play heavy minutes, about 8 per game, but much as with Kapono, I think he'll have the green light to fire from deep when he's in there. He showed signs of being a sniper at the end of his last season here, he showed flashes last year in Minnesota, if he can carry some of that confidence into the limited role he's asked to play, he can help this team. He's nowhere near the shooter Kapono is, but putting Rodney on the floor doesn't carry the same negatives as heavy minutes for Kapono either. He can defend, he can run, and he can put his unbelievable athleticism to use.
Here's a quick look at his stats from last season and my projections for the upcoming year:
Like I said above, a limited, but potentially important, role for Carney. Thoughts in the comments, as usual. Check out the
full series here.
contrary to what many fans think (just read the comments on the post after his acquisition) I have extremely low expectations from Carney this year: maybe this is the key not to be disappointed after
- Dude is 25 y/o and has done shlt so far in the League.
- Has played FOUR full years in College, THREE in the NBA and still can't dribble nor pass the ball
- check his assist numbers and you'll be shocked.. Dalembert has perhaps a better assists/minutes ratio. Simply awful for a perimeter player.
- yes he would be an improvement over Green probably, but this says a lot (and everything that is needed) about his role...
- it's true that Jordan's system looks perfect on paper for Carney so in this sense the signing could be a good move
- a vet min of 800 K dollars for a marginal player like Carney tells us one more time that whoever negotiated those collective agreements on behalf of the players is a f'n genius...
expectations for, not from, sorry...
gotta agree with ricky on this one. well put. at least he can shoot the three decently and can dance around on defense.
thank you
I left a comment on Recliner GM some days ago on another Carney post saying similar things, I'm copying and pasting an excerpt here:
"13 assists in FOUR MONTHS !! Nov-Dec-Jan-Feb !!!!"
Brian if you have the time to go deeper in a research about Carney and his assist-per-minute or per-game ratio, I think you would find very "interesting" figures, like NBA worst player among guards or something in that territory...
will make Willie Green look like John Stockton, LOL
They should have Carney, Green and Dalembert run the three-man weave in practice. High comedy.
Anyway, he's an upgrade over Willie, in my mind.
Ricky, I have less of an issue with the assist thing because a man has to know his limitations and Rodney basically shoots the 3, drives or kicks it back out top and if he forced things more and turned it over I would have a bigger problem with him.