Derek Fisher Stinks!

That is right folks. I know that several people were on the D-Fish bandwagon after a couple of good games in the Golden State series. Fisher won a lot of people over for having to go through a terrible ordeal with his young daughter who was diagnosed with Eye-cancer. But it is time to face the facts people, Fisher isn't any good. Fisher has now shot the Jazz out of two games, so far in the San Antonio series he is 2-17 from the floor, that is 11%. When your shooting guard is shooting around 10% you aren't likely to win many games.

The thing that kills me about Fisher is not his total ineptitude as a shooter. It is the fact that for being a "veteran" he sure plays like a rookie. He plays terrible defense, as demonstrated numerous times tonight by his leaving Brent Barry wide-open on threes, or by allowing old man Finley to go right around him for a dunk. The worst thing that Fisher continually does is that he forces up horrible shots. Here are two examples, Millsap grabs an O-board and throws it out, Fisher immediately jacks up a 3, at the time there was 22 seconds left on the shot clock. This happened when the game was still close in the second quarter and just contributed to the complete loss of momentum. The second example was in the third quarter when the Jazz had cut the lead to 11, Fisher first gives up a lay-up to Ginobili, he then runs the ball up the floor and takes a contested 3 which he misses badly, the Spurs get the long rebound race the ball up the floor (and seeing as how a terrible shot was just thrown up no one is back), Ginobili procedes to drain a 3 as time expires. Thus, our manageable 11 point margin went back to 16 in the course of 20 seconds all of which could be attributed to D-Fish.

It boggles the mind that time after time Fisher is "allowed" to continually make boneheaded mistakes and is never reprimanded by Sloan, whereas any other player on the team would get a first class reaming from Sloan if he made the same mistakes as Fisher. Let's face it folks, Fisher won't help us in this series, it is time to insert Ronnie Brewer. In Brewer we have length, athleticism, someone who knows their limitations, and someone who can actually play lock down d.