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Originally Posted by mjw0586
Stackhouse has played and will played more in his career because he's a much better player, plain and simple. Throw all the numbers out that you want, per 36 don't mean anything if you can't get on the court. How effective are you on the bench? Overall, offensively they aren't even close. JR Smith is an awful passer and he just doesn't have a good idea of spacing, running an offense, etc. Stackhouse is a much better passer, much better rebounder. And his IQ is higher than he gets credit for. Not to mention, he's not a liability defensively.
The playing time is obviously going to be hard to see, mostly because J.R. just turned 22 and Stackhouse came into the league at 21. Stackhouse was a highly visible player on a stacked UNC team. He was drafted 3rd overall by a terrible sixers team. Stack was going to play a ton of minutes no matter what (and he was reasonably effective). JR on the other hand came into the league at 19. He came straight from high school and clearly wasn't ready, but seems to have turned the corner. Who knows what kind of playing time he'll see in the future?
Re: passing - sure. Stack was a reasonably effective passer in DET/WAS, although nothing special. He also turns the ball over quite a bit more.
Re: rebounding - how much better is Stack at rebounding? The guy isn't Jason Kidd or Clyde Drexler. He grabs 3.4/game and his career high is 4.2. You don't think JR wouldn't grab about 3/game if he were given some more time?
Re: defense - I really doubt Stack is any better of a defender than JR. Dallas's D gets worse when Stack's on the floor, and it's not like his presence has done anything to curb Chris Paul, Dwyane Wade, Baron Davis, etc.