Shane Battier is "stressed out" about his offense!

Kwame will love this thread .

 

I don't have any statistics to back it up, just pure speculation, but he wasn't THAT bad offensively when he was with us. He wasn't a scorer but he held his own. However he seemed to have gotten worse and worse each year and maybe he's finally realizing he's hitting rock bottom and is frustrated at the self realization that he sucks.

Plus I think JVG and Adelman was better at hiding and compensating for his offensive deficiencies. Spo, not so much.

 

It's ironic that with a team with that much offensive fire power Battier is concerned about his offense. I don't think he ever struggled here that badly but that's the biggest difference between a post dominant offense wide open 3 point shot as opposed to a guard/perimeter 3 pointer with a guy in your face.

 

Wrong forum gaiz! He is two teams past being a Rocket.

 

He hit around 40% on threes while he was here, I believe.

 

Quoted for truth...

He also won us countless games with his play.

 

He was probably "stressed" then too, thing is now he's on a team that gets coverage.

 

Isn't the simple answer that he's slumping worse now than he ever has, hence him being more "stressed out" than usual?

Battier was an efficient offensive player overall for the Rockets. Very low usage, but also efficient. In Miami, he's low usage and very low efficiency.

 

Law of 10,000 strikes again.

 

How about he's just showing his age and wear and tear from all those years of ridiculous effort?

 

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He didn't need to prove anything while he was here making him way too comfortable. Introduce a little incentive to perform and he will be "stressed out" and push himself to do well. Bud too was getting too comfortable until McHale gave him incentive to push himself instead of going partying every night.

What Morey needs to find are players with a winner mentality. People like Thabeet, Hill and Bud do not posess this mentality, they get comfy too quickly. You have to get someone with the black mamba attitude, who competes every night and sees losing as the end of the world. We definitely have this in Klow, but a lot of the others are not like this.

 

When he was on a team that's 29th out of 30 teams in attendance, nobody was watching him. He could hide, since there were 28 other teams getting much more attention than the Rockets.

Now that he is on the Miami Heat, he can't hide anymore.

 

The Rockets were never 29th in attendance when Battier was on the team.

 

He is the smartest player in the NBA. He is not your average player. He has more important things to do in his life.

 

I still remember the 3point shot against the Lakers few seasons ago(the season we got the 22 game win streak), so not sure what you are talking about him costing Rockets many games, besides, he's always known as a defensive specialist, how he made life difficult for Kobe, Wade, Lebron, etc.

And what makes you think he wasnt stressed out about his offensive weakness when he was with the Rockets? Just because it wasnt reported? Also ditto for JVG and RA talking to him about it, did you check back all the documented Rockets press releases and was sure those werent reported? What is the point of your thread?

I say "YAAYY" he's sucking playing for Queen James's team. i hope the Queen doesnt win a ring in the NBA. All bets are off then he goes over to WNBA though....

 

I checked the Roster and Battier plays for the Heat.

Wrong forum.

 

He was playing for a team that contend to be mediocre. He was never good.