Tony allen is a good player. Before his show off dunk two seasons ago he was putting up 20 points per game with ease. He can score and play defense. If he can cutdown on mental mistakes(which is lessen so far) he will be a really good 6th man.
On one of the worst teams in Celtics history...when he was given the green light, 40 minutes per game, and not being asked to play within an offensive system.
This is the problem with Allen, and how I will feel about him until he proves me wrong. He is a superstar on a bad team, who simply not able to keep his focus when asked to play a smaller role on a good team.
He really is not much different a player this year than he was last year...he just has been given the keys to the car in the preseason, while the Big 3 rest up. I just have no confidence that he won't zone out when they tell him to move into the backseat again.
I honestly think the best thing this team can do is play him a ton early in the season, and let him do his "thing". Then see if they can get a team to give up someone who will fit in better with their system for the rest of the season.
Wouldn't a deal of the Tony Allen from last night, and Scal for Nick Collison make a ton of sense for both teams?
While I respect your posts, I find your logic to be illogical. Paul Pierce was on that team. Ray Allen oversaw back to back 35 and 31 win seasons. KG got his great numbers on back to back 32 and 33 win teams before last season. Basketball was, is, and always will be a team game. Good talent can be on bad teams and still be good talent.
Sorry, I wasn't making my point clear. I did not mean to infer that Allen is not a good player, because he only played well when the team was playing badly. The point I have been trying to make is that when Allen played so well in 2006-2007, they were a much less talented team, and were therefore asking Tony Allen to play a much different role. They were asking him to be a starter who was a primary scoring option, who had the ball in his hand a large percentage of the time. On this team, however, there is a ton of offensive talent around him. If he wants to be a 6th man, especially come playoff time, he is going to have to learn to be effective without the ball in his hands. He is going to need to show that he can consistently keep his head in his game, and help his team out in different ways.
In the past Tony has shown that coming off the bench, he does not play as well as if he starts. He also has shown that when he is not a major part of the offense, at times he loses concentration on defense, and tries to do too much when he finally does get the ball. These are the things that he is going to need to show he has grown out of.
If he hasn't grown out of them, he can still help this team, but he simply will not be as valuable as he could be, because he won't be able to be counted on game in and out.
Topic: Will the real Tony Allen please stand up? (Read 6922 times)