Jose Calderon’s safe but steady style buoys up Toronto Raptors

by Buddahfan on Jan 2, 2012 3:31 PM EST

Interesting and nice piece by Doug Smith on Jose

Full piece on link

Calderon, with 11 assists and one turnover against the Orlando Magic here Sunday night, is now at 3,004 assists and 734 turnovers in a career that has spanned 431 games, leaving him tied as fifth-fastest to 3,000 among active players who’ve gone past that number.

“All these things like records or all achievements (are) going to be more important when all things end, you know what I mean?” the self-effacing Calderon said when the achievement was pointed out to him.

“You’re going to have to be a little bit older to let your guys know, your little ones know, this is what I did. Right now I’m just thinking about what is going on day to day. You don’t really pay to much attention to all that stuff, you know.”

The company Calderon is keeping is impressive. He’s behind only Chris Paul, Jason Kidd, Deron Williams and Andre Miller and tied with Baron Davis for active point guards in reaching 3,000 career assists the quickest.

He is far ahead of the likes of Dwyane Wade, Steve Nash, Tony Parker and Chauncey Billups. And while Derrick Rose and Rajon Rondo — two current all-star point guards — aren’t at 3,000 career assists yet, Calderon isn’t going to drop too far down the list.

“He’s a floor general, he’s who we are,” Raptors coach Dwane Casey said of the 30-year-old Calderon. “He’s the coach on the floor. He knows every play, he knows what we want to do, he knows the calls. He’s been solid and we need that steady hand out there with that first group.”

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Very impressed with Jose this year, I have criticized him alot before but this year he has looked fantastic. If this is him going forward the next 4 years I hope he is around.

by Shalax23 on Jan 2, 2012 4:24 PM EST reply actions

He Has To Stay Healthy

He has been injured too much the last couple of seasons.

by Buddahfan on Jan 2, 2012 4:38 PM EST up reply actions

how old is he????

to lazy to look up.

by ppellico on Jan 4, 2012 10:15 AM EST up reply actions

30

I think.

by siggian on Jan 4, 2012 10:26 AM EST up reply actions

Jose has always had a good assist to turnover ratio.

Turnovers have been a major problem with this team so far, can you imagine what it would be like without him having so much of the ball?

Formerly known as timboslice85

by Rebrand_the_Raps on Jan 2, 2012 8:29 PM EST reply actions

for awhile late in the game.
he did seem to be dribbling the ball a bit more than he did earlier and the team started to slow down their movement.
perhaps just becaise it was tired legs…or maybe because players like to be rewarded for running without the ball.
late in games they stop moving without the ball even more if the ball handler just dribbles around the perimeter looking fior HIS shot.

But they eventually still got the ball to open looks and all was fine.

I also like the way he seems to talk to the player he assisted succesfully while back stepping onto defense. Very emotional and rewarding.

by ppellico on Jan 4, 2012 10:14 AM EST reply actions