Man, Dream teaches a grad course, this kid needs 101 classes at best. Back to the D league young man. See ya next season. I honestly felt kinda bad for him. He was trying so hard to show something out there that it caused him to make way too many mistakes and look foolish.
good to see the confidence and energy. the motor matters. more PT will help the game slow down for him. love the shot blocking.
Ibaka did not. He refined his jumper in his 2nd season. And it was not until his 3rd season that he became probably the best midrange shooting PF in the NBA. There should literally be zero discussion about Capela so far. The Rockets develop young big men incredibly well. No one should worry about how PF's and PG's that the Rockets develop will turn out. They have pretty much all turned out great. He needs two years. He's very young and very raw. He will get there. His physical tools are elite. I don't use that term lightly. Add the fact that the Rockets have Dawson, McHale, Hakeem, no one should worry. Do not be so short sighted.
I have watched a lot of basketball in my 39 years and I can think of only one other time where an NBA player was as bad as Capela was tonight. Reece Gaines attempted to play the point in preseason game after the Rockets aquired him in the TMac deal. He was stripped in the backcourt 3 or 4 times in a row without getting the ball past the timeline.
Haaaaaa! I remember that Reece Gaines game. Damn so it was badddd. Pretty sure someone will have a Capela dedication thread on his misses in 20 minutes.
Ibaka shot 40% from beyond 16 feet and 45% from 10-16 feet his rookie year. There are very few players and much less big men that ever do that as vets. So yes he came into the NBA as a very good shooter.
Would get ball off a pick and roll with a defender in the way and just throw bricks up or turn it over.
I watched a lot of OKC games in Durant's early days. I recall quite well what Ibaka was during his rookie season. He also only shot like 4 times every game. His percentage might be good but it is misleading as he had very little shot attempts. His jumper was good mechanically, but it's not like he was this excellent shooter when he entered the league. Also, I believe we have different interpretations of what type of shot that PF's have to make to space the floor for their team. Which in turn probably leads to different interpretations of what a "great shooter" from the PF spot is. Ibaka shot .387 from 16ft to the 3 point line in his rookie season. That is the shot that PF's shoot to space the floor. That is not a great jumper. Here is his shot chart and percentages from his rookie season. <br> His percentage went up in his second season (when I said he refined his shot) to .418 while shooting more times from the field. He got even better in his third season. <br> <br> He became the best (percentage) shooting big man in the NBA in his fourth season and it was actually a fact as he was shooting a lot of shots from that range.
Here's something fun. I watched the game right next to Floyd Mayweather's entourage at The M casino in Las Vegas tonight and they were all ripping on how bad Capela was. They were literally laughing at him. It's OK though because I'm pretty sure Floyd probably lost a little money tonight...
Those numbers are different from basketball-reference's numbers but I'll take your word for it since you watched the games and I didn't.
Lol. I didn't intend to sound like a know it all. Ibaka just rarely shot away from the basket during his rookie season. Like I said, he had good mechanics to start out with (something Capela probably does not) so you're right in a sense. My main point in this thread was just that Capela is extremely raw so no should be judging him at all right now. Especially given the fact that the Rockets organization develops and pumps out starter level PG's and PF's with ease every single year.
