Well we went through a full year of having him on the team with that being the case. I have no idea why it is. It could be something psychological like why Dwight shoots 80% free throws in practice but can't hit them in games. I have no idea. I just know that we pay this scrub 20 million dollars a year to be useless for at least half the games and disappear completely in the playoffs.
Hopefully he has fully indicated to Chris Paul that he is willing to come here and be the stretch 4. Hopefully he's fully comfortable with the idea that he's not going to get to be declining ISO player here that he was in NY. He won't lead the league in scoring here.
1. It would take more than a season to figure it out and do something about, given as you don't want to change something for the sake of testing mid-season. 2. Only dumbasses think Anderson is a scrub. Does Anderson have some weaknesses, yes... but he is FAR from a scrub. 3. Before last season, he actually shot pretty well in the playoffs.
How is it a fluke if it's for an entire season? And the guy looked straight up scared to shoot in the playoffs. I don't know how many times I saw him hesitate, pass it out when he should have shot, or, worse, drive it in (and sure, occasionally he had success with this). I don't know what this dude's deal is, but he has one skill and he somehow managed to not have it for an entire season of home games and the entirety of the playoffs. I don't need to see more. If he was on our bench for 8 million a year I'd have zero problems with him. But this dude is making more money than Paul George.
With the Rockets pace and more open shots he should average about the same amount of points. In less shots. Hopefully.
1. fair enough. I will certainly hope you're right if he starts the season with us. 2. I think only dumbasses resort to name calling. What are his other strengths then? What does he bring to the team when his shot isn't falling? 3. Are we talking about with the Orlando Magic way back when? Please tell me we're not going all the way back to the days of the Magic. Did the Pelicans even ever make the Playoffs?
1. Professional sports teams in the NBA have professional staff in development, medical, psychological, nutritional, financial, etc. They do have the means of helping provided a player is looking to be helped. 2. I don't waste time trying to sugar coat things for people trying/content to be stupid. Sorry (not really) if that hurts your feelings. Also, his strengths are that even on off nights, teams still usually have to stick somewhat close to him. It sucked that he slumped during most of the playoffs, but if he wasn't slumping, that's a huge weapon for us. 3. The Pelicans made the playoffs in 2014-15. It was actually the year that the entire SW conference made the playoffs. Not sure how you would not this if you watched the Rockets as they made a huge deal about it. He ended up over 40% for the series sweep by GSW.
If you go look season by season on guys across sports you will often see anomalies that occur over the course of an entire season. In this case it's one that builds on itself. He starts off with just a fluke statistical anomaly and then he starts believing it. He starts trying different things at home and it gets in his head. Then he gets hesitant and it makes it worse. It all snowballs from a fluke. These things can happen. Randomly grabbing some splits: Kobe Bryant 2009-10: Shot nearly 30 points better on the road than at home Kyle Korver 2008-09: Shot 65 points better from 3 at home than on the road Kyle Kover 2009-10: Shot 88 points better from 3 on the ROAD than at home Yes, it was bad last year and yes if it repeats itself it makes him a big problem. I just don't see that as likely at all.
In other words, literally the only thing he contributes is that he is a shooter and can space the floor because of his shooting and he can't do that in half the games. And he couldn't do it in the playoffs. And he wasn't spacing the floor at all in the playoffs. Cool. Also, sorry that I don't remember the Pelicans memorable 14/15 8th seed performance in which they got swept. Sounds like I should get my priorities straight.
Didn't we establish that Ryno is colorblind and has depth perception issues at Toyota Center? Or was it all a dream . . .
Before Houston, Anderson usually shot pretty well both at home and on the road actually. Last season was definitely an anomaly.
