ClutchFans Game Thread: Timberwolves @ Rockets 4/27/2021

Cade is Steve Francis and we are the Grizzlies now?

 

I fear that this could happen under TF. He's brought us to the verge of ruin and turned us into the laughing stock of the league.

 

I like your gusto and attempt to be positive. Lakers and Knicks have been in the crapper for years with your same philosophy as you mentioned.
They have been bad for decades until recently. And keep in mind they were prime destinations of New York and Los Angeles. Hit and miss
on draft picks and couldn't attract free agents. Kings paid a ton of money for free agents recently to mix with rooks......how did that work out?

As I've been saying, it's not how you pick.....it's who you pick. I throw that picking the best player available crap out the door after Cade
Cunningham or Jalen Green......all the others can be decent but more than likely just ok.

Martin jr makes spectacular dunks here and there and a block here and there, but his defense scores average to below average on the
whole of a game. Needs a lot of work on his 3-point shooting. 1.3 attempts per game is not going to cut it and a 31.8%. Those numbers
are ok for a big like Charles Bassey who will be setting screens most of the time; but defenses will pack the paint in the playoffs because
of KMjr.

Don't get me wrong, KMjr shows promise as a first year player. But I would trade him for upgrade in a heartbeat.

I give you points for trying to spin things in a positive manner. What @saleem was mentioning was, "what if Cade refuses to play for us?"
Like John Elway refused to play for Colts after being drafted number 1 in the NFL.

Edited: Kings in 17/18 had 5 rookies that year and mixed with vets and went 27-55.
Rookies (17/18).....................Vets brought in that year or soon after
Bogdanovic ................................George Hill
Frank Mason ..............................Nemanja Bjelica
Justin Jackson ..........................Alec Burks
Nigel Hayes ...............................Ariza
Jack Cooley................................Harrison Barnes
....................................................Kent Bazemore (Morey wanted as well)

to also join: Bagley, DeAaron Fox, Harry Giles, Buddy Yield during those 3 years

 

And then he drops 50

 

Tell me how many of those 50 were from beating his man off the dribble and getting to the basket. That’s still not a strength of his game. The way he shot last game is not sustainable. He still needs to work on that. His ball handling is not good enough yet.

 

Of course its not good enough, dude is 20...

 

Please tell me what his age, he’s practically 21 now, has to do with his ball handling not being good? It wouldn’t be hard to come up with a list of dozens of guards at around the same age that came into the NBA with good to elite level handles. His age has nothing to do with it.

He probably never really developed that aspect of his game like he should have because he wasn’t a point guard and he probably could always just rely on being a better athlete than the person defending him. Cleveland played him at small forward a lot. I just want him to be able to consistently attack the basket off the dribble in order to reach his potential. He can’t be an elite PG or SG in the NBA unless this happens. He too often is forced to settle for step backs because he can’t get around his defender.

I guess we’ll see what he comes back with next year. John Lucas and others are clearly putting time in working with him on his game.