This guy was insane his first few weeks, now he looks lost. How many bad passes has he made the last few games? Maybe teams are playing him differnetly is he in a slump? Its amazing we are 9-6 with aldridge, outalw, frye, rudy, and oden playing so poorly.
Frye has had a couple good games. And Outlaw is one of the top three point shooters in the league. LMA has had some good games in the post. Rudy and even Oden have had some good games too. Only a couple games ago, we won by 42. And tonight, we still won the game. We've won 8 of our last 11.
It's ridiculous. Rudy has two bad games in a row and all of the sudden he's lost. Don't even mention he's a rookie. Guys, this is a 6 month season. There are ups and downs, hot streaks and cold streaks. Be concerned if it takes place over a month, not a 2 or 3 game span.
Rudy does NOT get the ball! he shot it 4 times man. We run him wild on screens but never pass him the rock. He pushes it and our guys can't catch his passes.
it's lack of team movement. Outlaw's reverted to his stagnant inconsistent self, Blake and Roy don't reward cutters (and Rudy's caught on), and his passes to big guys are never converted (because they all suck right now), this is a recipe for increased defensive attention on a spot up shooting (exclusively) Rudy. Blame goes to: 1. Blake and Roy 2. Nate 3. Big guys 4. Rudy 5. opponent attention (in that order) trade blake!
His shot has been off. I also think Nate isn't using him right. For the last 4/5 games the only plays we run for Rudy are kickouts for a 3-pt shot. I want to see Rudy creating his own shot once in a while.
I do agree though that the guys need to look for Rudy a little bit more when he's running around trying to get open. You can see he gets frustrated that he just stops moving unless Sergio is in the game. But this is certainly not Rudy's fault that he hasn't been putting up numbers lately.
Ummmmm, yeah, his shot's been off but come on - after he lit the league on fire those first couple of weeks, y'all don't think other teams started figuring out that they needed to pay more attention to him??? It's a long season and it's his first in the NBA - he'll have his ups and downs. He started up . . . WAY up but it'd be tough to maintain that kind of pace all season long. He'll be back and he'll be fine. Better than fine actually.
You have to wonder if the schedule is getting to him. In Spain, he was only playing 1 or 2 games a WEEK! He has probably already traveled more in the first 3 weeks of the season as he did is a WHOLE season over there. He'll be alright!
The early schedule hasn't been friendly to rookie transition this season, 10 away games to just 5 home games. Trips ranging all the way from the NW to the tip of Florida, compared to playing in a domestic league in Spain where you never travel further that like the width of Texas to away games. Numerous Back to backs, which is something that just isn't done in Europe, think about that for a sec. You're used to playing 2 games a week tops, maybe 3 if it's the playoffs and suddenly your playing in 2 games back to back (often with travel in between), sometimes playing in as many as 4 games in 5 nights. He looked fantastic the 1st few weeks, but now the transition is starting to catch up. He'll have more big games, and he'll have more off games, but eventually he'll get more consistent.
I'm wondering, also, about the man's 3-week offseason this year. We've seen CP3 not play great, K*be playing less minutes, DWill and Ginobili hurt, (though LBJ and Bosh and Howard are monsters)... He might've hit the "rookie wall" a couple months early. Or he might be getting unintentionally frozen out of the offense.
Ya, that's what I've been thinking. He played during the summer and is not use to how many games or how physical the NBA is. I think he just hit a wall. He'll be back.
Seriously man, Rudy has what 2 subpar games and you gotta make a fuckin thread complaining about it? I realize that this is a place where you discuss these types of things, but I'm noticing that all you do is complain about who is underperforming when it's obvious that player is incredibly skilled and is just having some bad luck. For example, LMA goes through a slump, worthless C. Frye does decently, and 80% of the fan base subsequently screams for Frye to replace LMA in the starting lineup... Oh and Rudy was what 1-8 last night? WTF ship his ass out. Worthless scrub!!!!!!!!!!
Lmao, just look at the thread topics on this board. MIXUM is easily the most whiny, annoying poster I've ever seen. Sorry, but if you make this many stupid, annoying threads, you deserve comments like this.
Outlaw AND LMA are the guys that concern me. TO may have good 3 pt stats but I just don't like the way he plays and he's so iconsistent game to game - I'd trade him if a good opportunity arises. I hope LMA is just slumpimg, but his offense just sucks right now.
