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Message: [QUOTE="champs99and04, post: 2183956, member: 488"] I'm a little uncomfortable with the way we portray this sort of thing in general. If Isaiah would have sat out the rest of the postseason after his sister's death, I would have absolutely supported that. And there is certainly a good chance - not sure I'd say 100% - that her death had a negative effect on his play. But if we're going to make this out to be some act of heroism (which I wouldn't, just because I think it sets a dangerous precedent), then I don't know how you can at the same time grade him on a scale for his performance in those games. I would imagine it is possible for something tragic to have the opposite effect on performance in that it alleviates you of the nerves that typically accompany high stakes basketball games and allows you to become more zoomed in. It's just a difficult variable to account for so I almost feel it's better to not try. Yeah, he was very ordinary in the Chicago series. Again, could have been that his sister's death had something to do with it. Could have also been that playoff basketball is hard and it was a tough match up. There is a lot going on with Isaiah and so valuing him as a player is difficult. I think that's fair to say. We still don't really know what we have with him. Certainly it's possible that on some subconscious level his draft position could be contributing to my skepticism, but there's also data out there to suggest that he is one of the very worst defensive players in the league. A lot of the best NBA guys still had him behind guys like Lowry when both were healthy during the season and moving forward there is still a lot of work to be done in regards to sifting through all of the quantitative and qualitative information, both with regards to Isaiah specifically and how he fits into the climate of the current league at large. He's a fascinating talent and he does things with the ball in his hands that are rare, but I'm still taking the wait-and-see approach. [/QUOTE]

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