I've got to admit, I've been on the "bring back Antoine" train for a long time. I was furious at Ainge both times he traded him and wanted him to come back up until last season. I'll even buy the argument that he has game left in him and can get back to the level he was at when he was the second leading scorer in the playoffs for the NBA champion Heat.
Still, he doesn't fit in here. With the exception of Perkins, our frontline is already either perimeter oriented (Garnett and Scalabrine) or undersized (Powe and Davis). At the 3, Toine is too much of a defensive liability.
He just doesn't fit the team's needs as currently constructed even if we do entertain the idea he can still contribute.
Toine was the second leading scorer? That absolutely is not correct, maybe third behind wade and shaq.
He scored 13 a game on 40% shooting - 32% from 3 - and 57% from the line, he was a dynamo!
Toine has been done for awhile, he doesnt fit our needs. I would much rather take a flyer on a player with potential or one definitive skill for our end of the bench spots
Actually, and I hate to have to admit this, another poster here at CB, who is either Antoine himself, his agent, or a close and personal friend or family member of Antoine's judging by his love and adamance over bringing Walker back, and I had a long talk about this and he did correctly point out that Walker scored 1 more point for the Heat in that entires series than Shaq did.
What is not a part of that statement is that Walker went off twice scoring a tremendous number of his points in garbage time of a blowout loss of the Heat's. During times when the games were crucial or during Heat wins, Walker's scoring was almost nowhere to be seen.
But that doesn't stop people from reveling in the fallacy that Walker was imposrtant in that series because he was the Heat's 2nd leading scorer in that series.
