greens,
I know he's a 25% 3 point shooter and has averaged less than a half a 3 attempt per game, yet DA wants him to be a 3 point threat. . and so far has 4 3 point attempts a game.
I know he's on played more than 60 games a season twice in the last six seasons. And although he has averaged a great number of minutes in those seasons, you wonder whether the number of minutes played should be reduced to save his body for the long haul. And I know your coach only likes to go seven deep with an eighth guy getting 7 to 10 minutes a game.
What you say is correct but this has been hashed over a hundred times already on here - I thought maybe you had something to add that led you to say that Hill is a square peg in a round hole because it doesn't follow from those threadbare arguments.
Of course D'Antoni wants him to be a three point threat - he wants everyone to be. The question is will he force Grant to bomb away from the arc or will he let him play his game and incorporate his strengths into the offense. If you're convinced of the former then I would agree that D'Antoni is trying to force a square peg in a round hole. IMO, Mike is generally tolerant of the guys defining their own roles - more than most coaches, anyway.
Do the Suns have a place in their offense for Hill's midrange game, for his ability to drive to the hoop and get to the line, for his playmaking skills, for his ability to post up smaller/slower players? So far no one has said 'no' to this question so it looks to me like we have a nice square hole for him.
Yes his durability is a matter for concern but we have to face the fact that if the risk weren't high we almost certainly wouldn't have been able to get him at all. Far from being a square peg for a round hole, he was as good a fit as we could hope for, given the opening we had. One can certainly delve into history and find 'reasons' why the Suns were in such a pickle but that doesn't mean that they shouldn't take their best shot once they're in it.
No one would be shocked if Hill missed 20 games this year but with luck that won't be at playoff time - and given the successes of the Suns training staff they should up the odds in our favor a signifcant amount.
Yes, Hill averaged 4 three point attempts in two games but I think it is significant that they were distributed 7 in the first game and 1 in the second. I interpret that to mean that he was nailing threes in practice and decided he ought see what happened in games - once he found out his 3pt shot wasn't ready for prime time he backed off. I expect he'll keep working on the shot trying to get it to the point its a useful weapon but I don't think he's going to let the quest ruin the rest of his game.
this was my point behind how 'non-great' Coach D'Antoni really is... and his *!@*$!% system. Maybe things change this year. He can't get more stubborn, can he?
