There's almost no defining Monta. He is an enigmatic player who enters in strong just as easily as he can leave with a whimper. Just look at all the great things he's done. He's shooting He hit that game-winner against Portland. He's awesome. Yet, he has just a He doesn't play defense and he turns it over a bunch. He misses free throws late in games and has some really silly turnovers. Despite those turnovers, those missed free throws, that defense, that very pedestrian PER How in the world would the offense do anything since Dirk is becoming less and less of an isolation threat as each day passes us by?
I try to imagine the Mavericks without Ellis' sublime ability to attack the paint and create. Whether that's layups for himself or lobs for Brandan Wright. I keep thinking that the Mavericks should probably trade Ellis this off-season and sign Lance Stephenson to replace him.
I once thought a few months ago t hat Devin Harris might be a better fit than Monta , since Devin can do things that Monta can do and play some defense. A few months later and Harris is shooting Monta Ellis takes a pass and flies to the basket. He barrels into Goran Dragic's awful charge attempt and banks in the tough layup. Plus the foul. The free throws brings the Mavs to within early on in the fourth quarter. A few plays later, Ellis dishes the ball to a wide open Dirk.
The Mavericks have their first lead in the fourth quarter. I enjoy Monta Basketball. We rolling. We good. I get from the hotel to the gym. One of my teammates sees it. But it is the rules. He joined another small, speedy backcourt in pairing with Brandon Jennings. He was always the one complaining. What more can I do? Everything was pointed at me. Everything was pointed at Monta. But what more you want me to do? You had [me] guarding the best player every night. M onta Ellis remains one of the few players in the NBA capable of filling it up from nearly anywhere on the court.
Throughout his career, Ellis has been derided by proprietors of advanced stats , particularly in recent years. There is a cold quality to his game — all volume, little efficiency. This season, inefficient or not, Ellis has helped the Bucks qualify for the playoffs for the first time since After that, the Bucks will have a big decision to make about their backcourt. T oo often, Antwain Ellis found himself surrounded by the wrong people.
Monta knows his brother should have been in the NBA before him, paving the way just as he did at Lanier. Instead, in their mother, Rosa, found Antwain at his Jackson home with two gunshot wounds in his back. Police believe he had been shot elsewhere before staggering home. Monta Ellis is criticized for being a volume shooter, a feast-or-famine scorer, a gunner. But it takes a strong will to take the meaningful shot.
He thinks about that every time he goes back home. By the time I went, I had to go to the NBA pre-draft camp, so when they checked me, my knee was swollen. It just flared up. Montgomery says the team debated which guard spot to play Ellis.
Very explosive and can score with the best of them. Stephen Silas, an assistant coach, also worked closely with Ellis during his development. The two played one-on-one after nearly every practice. He came over to my house; our wives became friends. We still live five, six doors down from each other. Richardson still thinks about that team often. Keith Smart says that Nelson regularly challenged Ellis to go through practice without shooting and focus on getting his teammates involved.
He used to commit a lot of turnovers. He was always strong right-hand dominant and teams started to take his right hand away, [so] he started developing the ability to go left. He ended up mastering that. He has that full head of steam where he can get you back on your heels and stop on a dime and pull up. Very few guys have the midrange game, and he conquered that. In his mind, it was just a regular injury and he would come back. Current Warriors executives, through a team spokesperson, declined to be interviewed about Ellis.
Erika Smith, a former Golden State Warriors employee, filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against Ellis and the Warriors in December Smith alleged that Ellis had sent her numerous illicit text messages that included a photo of his genitals.
The sides settled the case out of court last May. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. We did what we had to do to become better.
We traded a big player for a small player. We did get Ekpe [Udoh] back also, which helped us to get a big in the deal, but the two key components were those players.
Look, we know who Andrew is. We know who he is and how good a player he is. If Andrew was healthy consistently, I think he would have been an All-Star at least once, maybe twice in his career. But the word "selfish" is startling — and has lingered — and is something for us to watch.
Not to accuse, no. But to watch. How he fits isn't just a thing; it's everything. But we know he can score. He was eighth in the NBA last season on points off drives — plays that begin plus feet from the basket, and end within 10 feet of the rim — and was sixth in points off pull-up shooting any jumper outside of 10 feet that started off the dribble.
Only three players were ahead of Ellis on both lists:. As for the other end of the court, and the knock that Ellis sacrifices sound defensive principles, has taken too many risks to rank 16th among active players with 1, career steals? Bird doesn't hate the idea of Ellis running amok. He'll be able to do that. Ellis met the media Tuesday sporting Jordan gear from head to toe — white shoes and wind pants, black T-shirt, red hat — and enormous confidence. He was in the last class of players to turn pro out of high school — and along with Lou Williams, the only preps-to-pros player or smaller to become an NBA star — and says he skipped college because: "With the points I scored in high school, I just didn't think college was going to be competitive enough.
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