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Watson the best backup PG?

Watson's defnitely been terrific the past 5 games, but overall he's only played 16 games with the Jazz, and probably only played well in about 7 of them, so need to see if he can sustain the energy/defense and decision-making but he has a chance to be Utah's best backup PG since Howard Eisley (Deron started the 2nd-half of 05-06 so I don't really consider him a backup PG).
 
palacio is criminally underrated here. he earned the captain crunch moniker. people don't like him around here because sloan preferred him to williams and he was sort of dumpy looking.
 
the backlash against palacio is driven by the same reasoning as the backlash against any ex-jazz player; they don't play for utah anymore. therefore, they were terrible, are terrible, and will always be terrible. in the grand scheme of things, the ~20 minutes per game palacio played wasn't that bad.
 
Get Down said:
the backlash against palacio is the same as the backlash against any ex-jazz player; they don't play for utah anymore. therefore, they were terrible, are terrible, and will always be terrible. in the grand scheme of things, the ~20 minutes per game palacio played wasn't that bad.
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Not true. I hated Palacio from the first time I saw him play in a Jazz uniform. The dude was horrible.
 
his play was, at worst, forgettable. i'd even argue that he was more effective than a rookie williams. but whatever. he looked kind of funny like ben handlogten so they are worthless as players and human beings
 
he had a better field goal percentage than williams in his only year here.

again, i'm not arguing that he was good, but the common reaction of "WHOA HE WAS SO BAD" to palacio or any ex-jazz player is silly and shortsighted.
 
To answer your question: Easily the best, easily. You can say that it has only been 19 games, but I would argue the opposite. He is on a brand new team that counts on the PG being very intelligent and making multiple reads. I would say this is just the beginning, if anything he will just get more comfortable. I personally think that the last 6 games are more than less of what we will come to expect and love.
 
IlliniJazzFan said:
Enough said

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpaNGaOjlyA
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Good god that brings up horrible memories. Palacio was by far one of my least favorite back up PG's we have ever had since I watched the team. I would say Arroyo who I could not stand but he was not a back up most of his time here.
 
vslice02 said:
...he has a chance to be Utah's best backup PG since Howard Eisley.
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He's ALREADY that. He's got a chance to be the best backup since Stockton backed up Rickey Green.


*edit* OK, maybe I was a little hasty. He probably hasn't passed Fisher yet on the list of backup PGs, but he's well on his way.
 
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