The reason Phil doesn't turn it over is because he doesn't make anything happen and just lives on the perimeter.
Au Contraire mon frère. In his first season he led the team in assists. Second season he was second in assists. This is his third season.
Only 19.1% of Phil Greene's FG attempts are at the rim. That is the third lowest amount of shots at the rim on the team, with the lowest being Max Hooper and Marco. By comparison, Rysheed Jordan takes 37% of his shots at the rim, and the number has actually increased since the first 4 games of the year.
Congratulations. I have never even heard of such stats nor could I ever have imagined that they existed. However, I'm about to render them meaningless with my trump card stats:
Phil - 48% from field 40% from 3
Rysheed - 33% from field 15% from 3
What the heck does it matter where your shots come from? Either you throw the brown spherical thing through the round orange metal thing or you don't. That's all that matters.
Carmine, whose playing style suits our team more as a PG?? Phil or Rysheed's??
I'm glad you're asking me this question. I feel that Jordan is naturally more of a PG and Phil is more of a SG. The versatile talents of both players make it possible for both of them to play the other guard position as well. Ideally, both of these players would see big minutes.
I HAVE NOTHING AGAINST RYSHEED JORDAN OR JAMAL BRANCH. In fact, I believe Jordan will either be BE rookie of the year or a future all BE team selection and that he has Nba potential down the road. There are aspects of Branch's game that I like as well.
Phil Greene has been continually hammered on this board and blamed for the teams woes for going on two years now and I've been his self-appointed protector. Posters complaints about him have mainly been two-fold:
1) He has a tendency to dribble in a pattern resembling Charlie Brown's head.
2) He's a bad shooter.
Now that his shooting percentages have climbed to a level that's not only ahead of Jordan, but also ahead of 3'lo; and it's been revealed that not only has he been dutifully playing out of position but also on an injured hip that required off-season surgery, I was optimistic that the bashing would cease.
But lo and behold we take a loss that anyone could a have seen coming ( I predicted a 10 point loss exactly ) to a tough conference foe on the road and Phil get's blamed.
I really don't mind defending him as it's easy. I don't have to make sh*t up...I just go to the numbers.