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The Warriors should get rid of Ellis as soon as possible. I can't stand these kinds of players. Here's the Hollinger take: 
	 
	"Ellis is talented enough that he may eventually become very valuable, but at the moment he is the league's most overrated player. He plays like he learned the game from watching Allen Iverson tapes, and I don't mean that as a compliment. Probably no player in the league took more ill-advised jump shots early in the shot clock, a particular problem in this case because Ellis isn't a good jump shooter -- he made only 33.8 percent of his 3s and 38.1 percent of his long 2s. 
	 
	Ellis finished with a gaudy scoring average because he played a lot of minutes on a fast-paced team, but he was 47th among shooting guards in both TS% and pure point rating. Basically, he dribbles around looking for a shot unless circumstances force him to pass. 
	 
	The most damning stat, however, is how much better the team played without him. Golden State outscored its opponents quite comfortably as long as Ellis wasn't around, and finished a whopping 11.4 points per 100 possessions better without Ellis -- giving him the single worst differential in basketball. " 
	 
	http://espn.go.com/nba/player/hollinger/_/id/2751/monta-ellis 
	 
	Good teams don't have players like this playing significant minutes. 
	 
	Curry has room to grow and is a much better shooter than Ellis already. He's worth two of Ellis.

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