He got 1 shot a quarter, none of them closer than 17 feet, and spent the entire game setting picks 20-25 feet from the basket.
Other than that he is shooting around 50% from the field in December.
I'm sick of this whole topic. Ive been on message boards for about 10 years and have spent the majority of them having to debunk people who don't know the game who bitch about Z for one thing or another year after year.
umm, seems to me you make my point for me! he stands around and the ONE thing he is supposed to be good at, hitting the wide open jumper, he does not do except for a week or so of games so far.
and your last sentence is beyond pointless. we're talking about Z NOW. i know basketball plenty and i know that with very few exceptions (shaq being one) big men decline EXTREMELY rapidly, tradtionally. you can ignore the wages of win numbers or his PER or his FG% but guess what? they all point to him bringing nearly NOTHING to the cavs when he is on the floor. now, his plus/minus has been good in some games but i don't put as much stock in that number in general but it's especially true in Z's case as the other numbers are so bad as to out-weigh the +/-.
Z is an offensive and defensive liability. what part of that don't you get? what does he do that we can count on night in and night out? maybe defensive rebound a little? and as i said in another post, you can pretend Z is great all you want but it was windy who said that Z was the big man out of the rotation if powe comes back healthy. but i guess windy doesn't "know the game" right?