Ty Lawson's game is extremely dependent on his quickness... Virtually everything he does is set up on his ability to get separation. Well, he didn't take care of himself like he should have, and he lost that "special" quickness and hasn't adjusted his game. Right now he is a marginal NBA player. He can get clean and bust his tail, but it is very unlikely he ever gets that step back.
It has to be the booze, right? I mean, dude is baller when he is drinking and after abstaining from alcohol he forgets how to play bb. Now Lawson has to watch Youtube videos to remind himself what he used to be? lol
I mean he is done right? He failed 3 teams in a 12 month span. Perfect system here but mentally he is done.
Would love to have him back on a cheap contract. He is better than Goudelock and the cruddy remaining free agents.
Very depressing interview. The best for him imo would be to get the vet min and go to Cleveland. They don't have a backup pg.
I honestly believe he just wasn't used the proper way here with JBB. The guy can play still, it doesn't just go away like that. He should invest in a sports psychologist and get his mind right. Not sure how it would work coming back to Houston but I do believe Mike D could integrate Lawson into his system easily.
worth a min contract. jokes aside, everyone was in a funk last season. sign him to a two year 1.5m deal, 2nd year to.he went from one of the best statistical pgs to absolute sht in one year! thats impossible. maybe it was the alcohol i dunno spend money on a center then sign 2 pgs to dirt cheap contracts nad have them duke it out. play them every game about 10min each for first month. if goudelock got no burn in last seasons debaclry then he shouldnt be the other pg. im sure there's plenty to choose from like jason terry and baron davis.
I wonder if things with him and James are too broken for a return. He's basically said publicly that his frustration regarding last season stemmed from not having the ball in his hands. I'm not entirely sure how things went down, because I missed some of the early games last season, but did Harden lose trust in Lawson and start taking matters into his own hands? Or was James the ball dominant guard from the beginning and Lawson never got a chance to really play the pg position?
I'd rather have somebody hungry and both mentally/physically healthy like Ian Clark that actually has a standout skill (shooting), as opposed to somebody like Lawson that looks like a lost and broken player.
Even without booze, it can just go away with age. Not everyone ages at the same rate and the margin of error for a player that relies so much on one physical trait (quickness) is tiny. He no longer is able to get separation against defenders like he could before.
He was given the starting position with the ball put in his hands and he sucked. They lessened his responsibilities with ball to help him adjust and he sucked. They moved him to the bench to be the primary ball handler w/ the 2nd unit (hoping he would find comfort in a familiar role) and again he sucked. I believe his biggest issue was that at no point did he seem to take his situation seriously. He made light of his legal issues and blew off any talk about his alcohol problems. He came into the season with high expectations but it quickly became clear that he had not put in the work to make the predictable adjustments required. This was all compounded by the fact that he had apparently lost a step physically as well. If it were just a problem with Harden/The Rockets and Lawson didn't get a fair chance as you suggested in your question, then other teams would be lining up to land a talented player for cheap. But his disappointing turn in Indy and the apparent lack of interest in him during this summer's free agency free-for-all should tell you that wasn't the case.
thanks for the really well-informed and thought out response. I guess it was hard for me to understand how someone goes from being one of the top PG's in the game to a suck-ass in a year and a half, but alcohol is a helluva drug. And if your attitude is not right and your body is not right and you don't put in the work ...i get it. Of course he's singing a different tune publicly because he wants another contract. Makes sense. Thanks; i missed most of the games prior to McHale being fired.
