Artest's FG% is the LOWEST this year in his entire career!

He is a good play anyway, I would rather admit we have problems in tactics.

 

This game suggested that Ron is not good enough to be your primary offensive weapon, which is probably agreed on by most of us anyways. The keyword for Ron's offense is mismatch. He creates mismatch in the offensive end and he has the physical ability to exploit it. He is extremely strong and can play a good back-to-the-basket game when guarding by smaller players. He has a pretty good jump shot so he can abuse the bigger but slower players on the perimeter. For him to be effective offensively, he has to pick his spots.

Right now he's pretty determined to go to the basket, which is not a bad thing in general. However, when the low post is crowded by the opponent bigs, with his vertical at a all time low, it is not surprising he got blocked over and over and over. His perimeter game is still OK. Our team just need to figure out a way to use his low post skills more selectively and more efficiently. Ron will prove his value to the team when TMac is healthy and back in the line-up, that's when a mismatch is due.

 

different way with different adversaries.
one word: be smart
another word: cool down
but i think it's too difficult for Ron to do it

 

miss 8 lay ups a game. go figure.

 

Ron can shoot better when spotting up

 

Ron can shoot better for Miami at this point, I'm ready to bring in Marion who shoots a much better average.

 

seems many good guys played very well when they are not in Hou, while once trade to Hou, their performance may greatly low down, just like M.James Posey and now Ron. this puzzled me a lot

 

it's not gonna help his finishing ability though. that's something you either have or you don't.

 

He is supposed to be the third option.

Answer - get T-Mac healthy.

Ron is not the problem - injuries are. Ron was not brought here to be the 1st or 2nd option. It's not his fault Yao and T=Mac have been injured, not to mention Barry and Battier as well.

 

Ron is shooting below average, what makes you think Marion won't shoot below average?

Seriously, if we traded players away every time they were in a slump we wouldn't have a team right now. At least he gives us defense.

And this might work in our favor as I don't think Artest is going to be able to demand a 10 million dollar contract averaging 15 a game.

 

Mike James had a fluke season in Toronto. And Houston was probably his second best destination in terms of averages. In Minny he got benched halfway through the season and he doesn't see the court in NO.

 

Actually he's not getting fouled at the rate you would think.

Tonight against the Nuggets for example: He had 6 of his shots blocked and went to the free-throw line for a total of zero times. So basically when the ball goes to Artest it's almost as good as a turnover.

 

all of his haters need to calm down. artest will come through. if the team just had battier and no mac we would've won in denver. there about four games this year where we could've won. when tracy comes back, battier gets full health again, the rockets won't let those type of games happen again. plus the schedule is getting easier and the offense WILL flow which will lead to better shooting from ron. it seems after every loss we all lose hope. its a long season.
artest's shooting will go up along with everyone elses.

 

Almost as bad as when Rafer gets the ball.

 

Can anyone verify if Ron gets blocked most in the league?

 

I don't know about that but I would imagine he's up there on that list. Why the hell does he make a layup with double and triple coverage, I don't care who you are its going to get blocked.

 

You are right, Hou was his 2nd best destination, and the season 05-06,Mike James was a member of Raptors, he can got 20.3 average, that was a high stat.his shooting percentage was about 47%, highest in his career

 

Did you watch any Kings games? Honestly, did you?

That would completely invalidate any argument against Ron's finishing.....
How about that playoff series against the Spurs?

 

You can if you want to go through 82games.com

For up to the Spurs game:

Ron's shot is blocked 10% of the time so he has around 26 blocked shots over 18 games.

Yao follows closely with 11% of his shots blocked making it around 23 blocked shots over 17 games.

 

one thing i might say that may cause this is yao: he does clog the paint. the kings were able to spread out b/c brad miller doesn't stay in the paint that much.

b/c he is literally horrible around the paint.

we'll see once tracy and shane are fully healthy and resume their minutes so artest can go to the bench where landry and hayes don't occupy the paint as much.

b/c he is TERRIBLE right now. absolutely terrible. i rather take a rafer floater over artest finishing around the paint.