Posted Wednesday, December 23, 2009 09:53 AM
Meaning a player in the NBA who has all the talent in the world but makes dumb, bone headed mistakes constantly and plays at times like he could care less.
I vote Al Thornton of the Clippers. He actually makes the "Bad" Clippers worse. I watched the fourth quarter of the Clipps/Rockets tilt and it looked like a Al Thornton blooper reel.
I will give three plays for example:
Taking a jumper from the top of the key with a player in his face and12 seconds on the shot clock while Baron Davis calling for the ball to set up a play.
Walking across the key when a Houston player was already shooting a freethrow. The freethrow missed but the player was awarded another shot because of his dumb infraction. The player hit the extra shot(to the delight of Rockets backers I'm sure).
Fouling a Houston player shooting an off balance, rushed shot as they were trying to beat the shot clock.
Those were the plays from today but I've watched a few Clippers games this year and he seems to do these things consistently. The sad thing about it is he has amazing talent and should be netting 20 points a game.
Please share which players we should be aware of out there in the Association. I know you will.