I think he's right about this one. With our front office if we get a good player it must be God's doing. Just hope J. West doesn't call asking about Novak or he'll be teaming up with Gay and the Grizz next year.
Is there a different rule regarding fouls allowed in summer league? Is the 3 pt line same as NBA 3 pt line?
It is definitely the off-season. We get a Jonathan Feigen article with absolutely no substance to it and there are four pages of replies. I hate the off-season.
I like "Swish" for a nickname, assuming he can resemble that in the pros. I just hope that JVG doesn't turn him into "Cryo-vac", sealed-up, and on ice in the fridge.
Size has nothing to do with "warming up". Everyone does the same stretching exercises. For a 3-point shooting, its entirely in his cerebellum and his muscle memory whether he can come out draining 3s-- but it has nothing to do with how big he is. Novak has played bigtime minutes at Marquette, so Im interested to see how he does coming off the bench, but his ability to do that has little to do with his size.
Disagree. If a players size had nothing to do with shooting stroke, smaller players wouldn't dominate FT %ages. And if muscles staying loose after warmups weren't affected by anything, coaches wouldn't lean toward starting vets and bringing younger players off of the bench. It's the reason Olajuwan started for the Rockets even though his skills had greatly diminished. Cato could get warmed up much easier than Dream during the game once they had cooled down on the bench. If there were no muscle changes at all, delayed games from such things as power outages would pick up right were they left off. There is almost always a momentum change after these delays.
Nobody can mess up Novak's shot? I'm betting that our balding coach can do it. JVG will bench the kid immediately after every rookie mistake and maybe not bother to tell him why. After a few benchings for defensive mistakes, Novak will be so confused and so down that his shot will disappear. This happened to Hayes last year, and you could see his spirit slowly fade under the JVG treatment. Fortunately, Chuckie didn't have a shot to lose, so he wasn't too badly affected. Novak, however, will be seriously impacted, because his major skill depends totally on confidence.
Hopefully Novak will just blow off the Van Gundy benching melt downs and keep firing the open jump shots he's going to see off of Yao and McGrady. hopefully, he's smart enough to realize that his best chance to get minutes is to drain shots and keep draining them and he just goes for it.
novak will not be thinking that his shot will be going in.. he'll be thinking is it the smart move, is someone else open, is there too much time on the clock, how to get back on D, mistakes on the previous play, etc..
What JVG SHOULD do is tell him that he has a green light every time he's open. 40+% 3 point shooters are rare and have to take advantage of every opportunity because there aren't many in the NBA. It's what they're out there for. What will actually happen may be another thing entirely, though.
Smaller players dominate FT %-ages because generally smaller players are the shooters and taller players play the post. Novak is a taller player who is a shooter. I think most coaches start vets because... they're vets, and they've made it through the NBA for a while so they might know a thing or two versus the youngsters. And Im not saying you dont need to warm up, Im just saying that warming up means different things to different people, and for a shooter, means getting a couple of practice shots in and having muscle memory, which is different than stretching. This really isnt a big point for me, Im just saying I think Novak could be effective off the bench if he trains his muscles right-- since he started most of his career at Marquette if he can keep up his concentration, he should be able to come out in rhythm.
And my original point before someones Steve Kerr comment was that the Van Gundy Rockets have a history of acquiring rotational shooters that for some unexplainingable reason, lose their touch. If Novak doesn't he'll be the first. If he does, then I hope you'll at least consider being yanked in and out of games as a possible explanation.
I hope so too. But I know JVG too well now. I expect the kid to start off with a bang, then slowly fade as Baldie gets into his head. One reason is that JVG likes to be strict with his players. He would undermine that if he were to tolerate rookie errors, so he doesn't tolerate them. If Novak makes one mistake, he will be back on the bench before he has even worked up a sweat. This of course is one of the worst ways to develop a young player, but JVG doesn't care -- he knows that he's under the gun this year. So he will have even less patience for rookie fumbles than he normally would (which is not a whole lot even in the best of times). So Novak's prospects next season are not encouraging. Don't get me wrong, it would be great if Novak burned up the league next season. I just think it's more likely that JVG will ruin him. (It's one reason I wanted JJ Redick before his back problems came to light -- he has too much fire for JVG to quench. I don't have the same confidence in Novak.)
It's what JVG should do but probably will not. The best way to develop a talented young player is to just let him play. Some youngsters would abuse that freedom, but Novak appears to be a sensible kid. I hope JVG sees that and gives Novak the green light, as you say, but unless CD or Morey demands it, I don't see it happening. Agree.
I hope not, Larry Brown did that in NY with his rookies, he had Frye, Lee and Robinson totally confused about their roles and the teams direction. I just think JVG is a better coach than that but a lot of it is going to be up to Novak, if Novak has a Yao Ming work ethic, thats going to endear him with JVG and that shot can't hurt.
Did JVG ruin Jon Barry's touch? What about Luther? Mike James? I'd like a list of this "history". Who's touch did JVG "ruin" besides the pathetic, washed up and empty Eric Piatkowski? If you blame SF's problems on JVG, I completely disagree with you. But I'm sure you have a list of players instead of just him.
