Can you please list the qualities that make Farmar a quality player or starter in this league. I for one can name you negative 3 nba traits that Farmar posseses. They are;
a) The guy has no handle! An astute NBA follower such as yourself would agree that good PGs penetrate the ball as deeply into the Defence before they either set someone up for a quickfire shot, beat their man of the dribble and take it to the cup or retreat and run the offence. Being a point guard in the NBA is all about getting from point A to point B at will. The great point guards consistently get inside the key, free throw line extended (even an average PG on a championship team such as Avery Johnson was great at this). As a bare minimum an NBA PG should set the offence up from the top of the 3 pt line (think Anthony Johnson etc). Why is it then that whenever I see Jordan Farmar he is dicking around trying to run the Lakers offence from a good 2 feet outside the 3 point line!!!!!
b) While Farmar is trying to desperately set up the Laker offence he is obviously doing everything in his power to ensure that he doesn’t have to swap the ball over to his left hand (alarm bells should be ringing at the mere hint of this, he is a PG after all, but Jordan makes it blatantly obvious). Besides looking weak and being limiting, it inhibits his peripheral vision and often means that the Lakers run their offence predominantly from one wing of the court while Jordan is playing. He is the most ‘one handed’ player this side of Lamar Odom (who is 6’10’’) in this league. The guy has no left hand!!
c) He can’t shoot. 39% from the field!! Granted Sasha shot a similar percentage but at least he makes 36% of his threes to Jordan’s 33% (and I wouldn’t be surprised if most of Jordan’s shots were open threes as a result of his man leaving him, whereas Sasha’s man is instructed to stick on him.

i find it hard to believe that a guy who is getting outplayed by Sasha Vujacic (of all people)and Shannon Brown (who as much I like was a journeyman thus far in this league) will be a starter and a “complete” player in any sense of the word.

This guy’s ceiling is the next Kenyon Dooling or at best Anthony Johnson

real talk though, jordan will continue to be a solid back-up point . . . shannon brown has stepped his game up (double-decker boat, mediterrain up) and is stepping into a ron harper-ish (on the bulls) role for the Lake-show (remember Phil is big-guard happy)

don’t front on Ron Harper. he was a pretty good defender and hit the shots he needed to.

If you played in a 3 on 3 tournament and you could go play for free or have a company pay you $100, give you some shoes, shorts, whatever, you wouldn’t take that? Of course it’s about money!!! No way Odom stays for more than 10% less.