[video=youtube;MYjVK8dcCGk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYjVK8dcCGk#t=89[/video]
This is what I want Dion to become. Always push the ball, and just be a bull going to the hoop.
Oh my.
If you want Dion to become that, you all have to drop the "Just let him play through his mistakes, he's being yanked for almost nothing". That's not how you achieve that from someone with the mentality Lance has. If you let him "do his thing" he becomes Tyreke Evans 2.0.
Lance is 23. When he was 21 the only time he got on the court that year was literally the most garbage of minutes. Like Karasev-gets-more-burn garbage time. The only burn he got in the playoffs that year was enough to get throat punched by Dexter Pittman in a blowout game 6. The year before that he didn't start, he played even less.
If he got put in he was pulled with the first turnover or first missed defensive assignment. He didn't hem and haw and show out about it. He put his eyes on his coach and listened to the people he was supposed to answer to. He learned from the coaches yanking him around till he did it right. All the stuff you guys criticize Brown for doing to Dion, Lance got it worse. When he mentioned his talent, Jarrett Jack impersonator Dahntay Jones would bring up his draft status.
Now that he's shown that he can play within himself, he's slowly been given more freedom to let his talent shine. In essence, he had effenciency drilled into him.
While he had his supporters(and the talent was/still is there) but they were very much the minority, most realized he didn't need to be out there airballing layups "playing through mistakes" as if that would improve him.
The difference between the two of them is that Dion has been given more rope from Day 1, mostly because the Cavs couldn't afford not to play him. If he were on the Pacers, he would be yanked around way worse than he has been by Brown and if he didn't drop attitude he would've been shipped out without a blink of an eye, and the way we've been winning, the only one that would regret it is the Rich of Pacer's message boards.