Fools Gold

Patrick Patterson is mediocre.

 

Rudy Gay - Classic chucker that has a nice skill set but does not translate to smart production on the floor.

Demar DeRozan - Doesn't defend, poor shot selection, does very little other than score.

JJ Hickson - Numbers look nice, and is a rotational player. However, is a poor defender and often times is a black hole.

Jeff Green - Doesn't defend and doesn't rebound. absurdly inconsistent with only one post move.

Michael Beasley - Just garbage, which is too bad.

Eric Bledsoe - A very good spark player, but is not a real point guard and when his role evolves beyond a bench player, he will struggle.

Reggie Evans - Early on he realized he would be in the league a long time if he did one thing well. He does, he rebounds... at all costs, that includes at times letting his man get position and shoot so Reggie can get the rebound. On defense he will be out of place... all to get the rebound. On offense he will be out of place.... just to get the rebound.

Nate Robinson - Excellent athlete, and can really fill up the scoring column. However, he takes many poor shots, he does not play within the offense and at times he shoots his team out of games. Defensively he drives coaches crazy.


As a side note:

Rick Rubio will join this list if he keeps shooting 35%. He simply cannot be a rotational player with such a poor percentage.

Thomas Robinson is probably headed to the land of Stromile Swift. He does not know spacing, does not react quick enough and he is very, very, very raw. Having said that, he is very gifted and is a good defender. There is an outside shot he becomes a very good player.

As for Andre Drummond, he has looked very good. Yes, he must improve his free throw shooting. However, he is very young. There is no reason he cannot become a 50%-60% free throw shooter with moderate effort.

 

Canaan

 

basketballholic

 

Before you strain something partying yourself on the back about Drummond, you might want to rethink the assertions around big Al. He pretty much proved last year that he could could put a team on his back and this year, he's starting to roll again. As for Lim and Parsons being great locker room guys, you still hold that torch today? Was Lin ever a good locker room guy?

 

I don't really see what's the hate with Drummond, the kid's only 21 years old and sometimes it takes a while to become good in the NBA...DMO for example is already 24 and yet is still slightly inconsistent. And DMO has tons of international experience playing against grown men, Drummond spent his highschool and college years just standing in the center and raising his hands up.

For me inner drive and focus isn't something you see inside the court, it's something you see out of it. Guys like Melo, Iverson, Perkins etc. always turn it up in big games and show a lot of intensity on the floor but if you look at their games they haven't really improved one iota in their professional career, and that's because they were too lazy to work on their game during the offseason.


On the other hand, a guy like Chuck Hayes doesn't strike you as the fiercest competitor but the dude went from being unable to create a shot for himself and relying on Tmac gimmes during his rookie year to flirting with a triple double night after night as our starting center.

So right now it's hard to say whether Drummond is just coasting or he's working hard because as a rookie big man he has so many holes to fill, and the improvement he's making might be too small to show up on the court immediately. Let's see how he looks like a couple of years from now.

 

Just like TJones rite?

 

Mr. First 3 Quarters.

 

You must spread some rep before repping heyp again.

 

For the love of god, can we all just collectively decide to put him on ignore now? Maybe he will get the clue and stop posting. Who brings up a thread from 2 years ago to rub it in peoples faces about how right they are when they are still so completely wrong. I'm beginning to wonder if he and what are the same person.

 

Eh never mind, not worth it.

 

I put him on ignore awhile back. It's much better like that.

 

From my eye test, Jamal Crawford and Jarrett Jack are huge chuckers, who typically take shots away from more efficient teammates but are hailed as heroes.

 

How many games are Ricky Rubio, Hassan Whiteside, and Ty Lawson winning?

Advanced stats aside, the main stat of them all is team record and winning games, right

 

Crawford before this season had around a 55 percent TS%. That's pretty good considering he pretty much creates his own offense. Obviously it would be better if he could create for others. But, if he could create for others he would be a borderline max player.