Attn: Coach McHale!…..D-mo is NOT a three point shooter!

The coaches and his teammates see him in practice every day. If DMo's post up is the next McHale like, you really think McHale wouldn't use it?

 

hey you never know. last season we had camby and dalembert, two legit 7foot defensive/rebounding centers. but in march mchale went with 6'9 patrick patterson to finish games. maybe he has a fetish for undersized centers, i dunno.

 

Dmo has a bright future just like Lin and Parsons. I am a fan of Lin and Harden and now also Dmo after meeting him in person. He is so calm, down to earth and friendly to his fans. He has earned my respect for him.:grin:

 

D-Mo is apparently an awesome 3P shooter in practice. To become an awesome 3P shooter in games, he has to actually take the shot in games.

He clearly has the potential to hit long range jumpers, so I don't think we should say "don't do that" in a season which is largely about developing young players.

 

David Lee is a legit post player in this league. I don't know if you saw the "mighty David Lee" score 8 straight points and 10 points in the first quarter against Dmo the last time we played GS, but I would guess no based off the fact you think Dmo can take him in the post.

Posting up has absolutely nothing to do with how big and strong someone is, just how effective they use their body to get there. If you are someone with "heavy hips", it is very hard to get you off your post position, whether you bench 100 pounds or 400 pounds. It has nothing to do with brute strength, but a combination of finesse and body control. Look at our coach during his playing career... His rookie season, he was listed at 6'10", 210 pounds. He knew how to get post positioning and wouldn't get pushed around.

Dmo can develop this over time, but so far, Dmo has not shown any body control and I don't believe I've seen him sit his ass down and drive his man backward in the post or on a block out all year.

To be clear: Dmo has nice post moves, he just has not shown the ability to hold a post. Those are 2 separate skillsets that people lump in to 1 all the time because MOST people who have one have the other, which is not always the case.

 

What you quoted had nothing to do with me saying he never posts up... In fact I was just saying it was probably too late in the year to change our offense to incorporate more of Dmo's post game.

I also happen to do this special thing called watching the games. In it, you can see how effective or ineffective Dmo is at holding a post. His early, duck-in post-ups are very good and smooth. His traditional, hold-the-guy-on-your-back and call for the ball post-up is not. He doesn't sit his ass down on his defender's thighs and make them yield ground. He doesn't swim move, ever. He doesn't use any technique to get himself open in the post.

That means to me that he either doesn't have them, or doesn't feel comfortable using them in the game. The thing he does very well is dribble enter the ball in the post and go to work from there. Don't confuse that with him being great at getting post position.

 

the organization is telling him to be a stretch 4 by shooting 3's. scola said they told him the same thing before they let him go for not fitting in their system aka not shooting 3's.

 

Actually, I'd argue that the problem is entirely different. The problem is that he is taking almost as many threes from the wings, where he is 5-17 (29%), than he is from the corners, where he is 8-23 (35%).

If he stuck to the corners, he'd be giving us a reasonably facsimile of what Patterson (40% from the corners, 27% from the wings, four times as many corner 3s as wing 3s) was giving us on offense.

 

Also not a good FT shooter/defender....

 

I do wish D-Mo was posted up a bit more. Too many 3s for a big man with such a good post game.

 

Can we address his FT shooting? It's really shaky...

 

His shot is a little flat. I think that can be fixed with offseason work. Same with free throws.

 

He can shoot some 3s, but I can't remember the last time I've seen him in the post and we've played against some bad defenders. McHale, of course, is unbelievably stubborn so I don't expect anything to change.

 

I sincerely doubt the Rockets amnestied Scola because he didn't shoot 3s. He was let go for Asik and Lin, neither of whom are 3pt shooters. He was let go because the Rockets had Patterson/DMo/Morris/Jones/White on the roster.

 

Not too worried about D-Mo's shooting just yet.

To give some perspective,
Dirk Nowitzki shot a whopping .206% from beyond the arc his rookie year and .405% overall.

D-Mo is a product of our rebuilding yet contending credo. Have patience.

 

D-Mo isn't good at three pointers or two pointer right now. I'm not worried though, he may pan out or he may not. But he's a rookie and I'm not going to panic about a rookie not shooting at a high percentage. I do hope that once TJones gets some more practice time he gets a shot by getting a few minutes. D-Mo and TRob are clearly struggling at this point so maybe TJones can give us something. But I've got pretty low expectations for all our rookies at this point for this season.

 

Dirk was a bum in his rookie season also. Too early to judge d-mo's game even though he's playing like ****. I still think T-Rob, or T Jones deserves the starting gig though after the last two sh!tty games D-Mo had.

 

I personally think DMo is going to be a solid starter in this league very soon, and might even develop into a star player -- however, point of order in reference to the comparison to Dirk's rookie year -- Dirk was 2 or three years younger than Donatus when he was a rookie, and that is a big difference when trying to gauge their comparative level of development as rookies in relation to what kind of player they may become.

 

Iv been saying it all along Trob is the better player right now I think he should be staring he has a nice face up game pivots pretty well around the hoop to get open shots down low and is a beast on the boards and better at defense than dmo. U can tell me he can't shoot but I could say the same thing about dmo he doesn't hit anything either. Trob would be better getting more minutes right now. Dmo been trash his last 3 games.