1. The hero narrative espoused by many fans results, in part, from management's failure to adequately manage expectations for JV, particularly before his rookie season. This was then further reinforced by reports from this year stating that JV was the Raptors' only "untouchable" player, thus indicating his relative importance to the team.
2. If you move on to the sentence right after the section you bolded, you'd see that I qualified my previous point by indicating JVs partially to blame for his perceived lack of FGAs.
3. The Hansbrough thing was my mistake, as I was actually thinking of Vasquez. Here, Greivas averages 7 FGAs a game, despite his horrendous shooting percentages, which is only 1.4 less than JV, a center who plays 1.5 times more minutes per game. Obviously, this supports my argument that as a NBA big, JV is heavily dependent upon the guards on his team for his offensive touches (unlike fellow Raptors sophmore, Terrence Ross, who has averaged 10+ FGAs a game over the past 3 months).
4. Your point about Hansbrough's offensive rebounding efforts does have some merit. However, if you look at his off rebounding percentage, its only slightly higher than JVs. The difference, then, is that when Hansbrough catches an offensive board, his only thought is to take the ball back up himself, even if there is a better play to make or almost no chance of making the basketball. Yes, Hansbrough does have a great ability to crash the offensive glass and get to the free throw line (which is needed on this team) but he only shots 71% from there, and 45% from the field, indicating that on a lot of those possessions, he's not the best option. Ideally, you'd have Hansbrough do that a little less (hopefully raising his FG%) while JV does it a bit more (raising his FGAs) but this isn't NBA 2K.
2. If you move on to the sentence right after the section you bolded, you'd see that I qualified my previous point by indicating JVs partially to blame for his perceived lack of FGAs.
3. The Hansbrough thing was my mistake, as I was actually thinking of Vasquez. Here, Greivas averages 7 FGAs a game, despite his horrendous shooting percentages, which is only 1.4 less than JV, a center who plays 1.5 times more minutes per game. Obviously, this supports my argument that as a NBA big, JV is heavily dependent upon the guards on his team for his offensive touches (unlike fellow Raptors sophmore, Terrence Ross, who has averaged 10+ FGAs a game over the past 3 months).
4. Your point about Hansbrough's offensive rebounding efforts does have some merit. However, if you look at his off rebounding percentage, its only slightly higher than JVs. The difference, then, is that when Hansbrough catches an offensive board, his only thought is to take the ball back up himself, even if there is a better play to make or almost no chance of making the basketball. Yes, Hansbrough does have a great ability to crash the offensive glass and get to the free throw line (which is needed on this team) but he only shots 71% from there, and 45% from the field, indicating that on a lot of those possessions, he's not the best option. Ideally, you'd have Hansbrough do that a little less (hopefully raising his FG%) while JV does it a bit more (raising his FGAs) but this isn't NBA 2K.
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