Playoff Lou

But does he become a lockdown defender?

 

Louther

 

lou williams = luther head 2.0?

 

Windhorst on the Lowe Post podcast said that Lou's playoff futility was the reason he gave the Rockets a low trade score. Here I thought he was just hating.

Uh oh.

 

Playoff Lou about to win Finals MVP.

 

Maury only trades for Playoff chokers.

 

40, 41, 41, 35.

Those are the win totals for those Philly teams that he played on, and where the bulk of his playoff games were played. Context is important.

 

Yeah, that's why i was not high on him when someone was talking about him as a trade target, looking at his stats he always reminded me about Jamaal Crawford, good scorer as a sixth man during the regular season (when like 5 teams really play defense), but a no show in the playoffs when defense really comes in play.

That probably happens cause these guys have the habit to take a lot of bad shots, one thing is to make those against no defense and bad teams, one thing is to make them against good teams and a solid defense...also, their defense is bad and their physicality is what it is, on both sides, which probably doesn't help.

Personally i also think the context is important most of times, like @HR Dept said so, we'll see, but it doesn't look like he played that much better with good teams like Toronto and Atlanta...

 

I think in the playoffs defense are tougher so some drop off is expected
but also . . . . who was he playing with . .. as a significant cog in someone's machine
they probably play him harder . .. they probably won't have that option in Houston

Rocket River

 

Also played like sh** for Atlanta and Toronto though, who were good teams at that time.

 

Mightve been my post you read.

No doubt the data shows that he has struggled in the past.

I cant refute that or argue against that but I got a damn good feeling that hes really gonna lay it on the line and show up this time. It seems that hes really showed up on our nationally televised games

 

philly, atlanta, toronto.

Let's give him a chance. Besides, at some point in the playoffs, we are just gonna roll the dice that we get hot for 4 games.

 

Even if he doesn't do good, luckily we are not expecting us to win because Lou gets hot the entire playoffs. In fact, we are counting on quite a few others (looking at you Ego!) to step up first before turning to him.

 

So the past equals the future?

 

I agree, Gordon is the guy who needs to step up, he can make a big difference for us.

 

Yea but within the Houston Curse everyone knows that for one playoff run the player in question will feast on the negativity and thrive. Lou will come through.

 

Louther did just score 31 pts on 11-15 shooting and 7-8 3s against OKC in last game.

 

Possible explanation for this is that he was on lower seeded teams facing bad matchups? (I don't know just tossing this out there.)