K.J.' Benching Has NOTHING To Do With His Performance!

Quit making threads plz.

Already KJ threads.

 

NO MORE THREADS from you

Due to trolling and/or race-baiting ignorance

 

WTF are you, man? KJ's agent or something? These seem like some real BBholic style alternative facts here and stuff, man. I'm going to have to pass on this because it seems like there is nothing coherent here worth the dudes time, I have better things to do.

 

Mrs. McDaniels?

 

The only problem with KJ is that he is enormously stupid. You gotta play him with Harden or he is useless.

 

So which is it: Brewer is playing because he makes more money? Or is it that Dekker, who makes less than KJ, is playing because he's white? Or does Morey only allow cheap players to play if they are white (unless it is Montrezl or Capella)?

Get a grip. The one guy who has consistently supported KJ is Morey -- he is still on the roster after coach-after-coach refuses to play him because Morey holds out hope. Coaches make playing decisions, period. KJ doesn't play because KJ is not a good TEAM player. People who think otherwise are watching a few isolated offensive plays and/or can't understand the difference between on-ball defense and team defense. Money and racism have nothing to do with it.

 

Weak thread.

 

Oh nice, rockets players do post here after all!

 

I think that KJ sucked when he was given garbage time. So i understand why he is benched but we should probably give him more chances, especially in blowouts e.g against phoenix. Play him with the starters or even the 2nd unit in games like that. It is a no risk medium reward kind of scenario because we literally couldnt lose that game anymore at one point.

 

TL;DR

 

All he had to do was outplay essentially a rookie Sam Dekker and a terrible Corey Brewer. He got outplayed by Dekker, and didn't differentiate himself from Brewer much. That's just on the court. With all their shortcomings, you can tell Brewer and Dekker are guys that work their a$$ of in practice and in their own time, and we don't know if KJ is like that too.

This is the 3rd different coach under whom he has not gotten minutes. It's a joke to think Morey wouldn't want a young player on a cheap contract to succeed, that would be the most unMorey like thing to do.

You have to understand, Brewer is one of the worst rotation guys in the league right now. If that's the only person you can barely beat out, you are pretty useless still. Yes I think KJ should have all of Brewer's minutes because at least there's a chance KJ will slightly improve with minutes whereas Brewer is Brewer for life. But KJ's disappointing comparison with Brewer has made me not give a F, and frankly a little let down. I used to blame the coaches, but then there were 3 coaches. I used to blame Morey, but Morey has nothing to gain from letting KJ expire.

It's on KJ. He has athleticism, he has early career experience on an NBA team, and with the Rockets he has had a coaching staff that has done pretty well developing young guys. When he was getting minutes in preseason and early season, he should have left Brewer in the dust and outplayed Dekker clearly. He didn't do it. And his game doesn't look any different than he looked as a Sixer. And there are players who improved without playing time, case in point Sam Dekker. You can't be a person who can only get better by being given minutes that other people have earned over you. We are LOOKING for a competent athletic backup SG/SF. There is no excuse for why he can not hit 36% of a decent volume of 3's at this point in his career, he does not do anything really well to compensate, except jump high. He's not a good rebounder, not a good defender, not a good ball handler, not a good mid range shooter, not good at getting to the line. For him to not be hitting 3's, he would have to be an all round wrecking ball and defender like Michael Kidd Gilchrist, and he is not that. Dekker and Brewer play like every minute might be their last minute in the NBA. I've NEVER seen that from KJ and I truly feel let down by that. I wanted him to do that a prove he belongs.

Tough for KJ, but we are the 3rd best team in the league. We can't revolve around his career. I wish him luck, I would have loved to see him flourish here. I'm sure this is tough on him personally and mentally, but it's not the Rockets' fault. It's not about him being a good/bad guy. I'm sure he's a great guy, and so is Brewer, and so is Dekker. They re-signed him, which means they believed he would flourish.

 

that's how you do it, OP

 

You play the guitar on the MTV?



Yep, that's the way you do it, OP.

 

This thread is weaker than Kj's bball IQ

 

When you suck you don't play. Doesn't seem complicated.

 

5 star thread.