Hope we don't make the same mistake with Leonard as we did with Jermaine...

i dont necessarily disagree, yet still

in the 9 games he has played more than 20 minutes he is averaging

7.9 pts/ 5 boards/ 1.3 blocks

.617 shooting, 13/14 from the line

as one of the youngest players in the league

 

Any concern we are 3-6 in those games?

 

Horrible. Trade him for some unknown something.

 

A lot of blowout losses

 

Obviously Nards' fault. Just ask 'blue' about games when LMA scores 20+.

 

all the losses except the clippers game were on the road, seems pretty normal to me

 

8/8/1/1 in a win against Houston.

What is the point? Why give up on a guy who, as the stats show, is a pretty good rookie center historically at age 20?

Maybe Stotts should pull his head out of his ass and start playing the younger guys who have better stats than the crappy vets like Jeffries, Pavlovic, and Price.

Hell, Claver played well last night after not leaving the bench on Tuesday.

 

I think if he were pretty good he would get consistent minutes.

Instead Stotts doesn't put him out there because Leonard is pretty much lost on both sides of the court. He's just....not playing well. I'll leave it at that.

 

Interesting. I like the FG% in those numbers, and that he's basically at 1 turnover every 25 minutes. He just doesn't fumble the ball or miss easy ones (unlike Freeland). He plays reasonably mistake-free basketball on offense (other than being out of position at times.) Yeah, the team record isn't great, but most of those happen to be road games so you kind of expect losses.

I get the feeling Stotts is trying to instill some defense in his game while he's still young and malleable. He could very easily go down the slope of a poor man's Amare of all-offense/no-defense if you don't push him. If you could fix just some of the defensive incompetence he could be a really valuable bench asset.

 

I don't see that at all. He has the highest bench PER easily, and he is +8 on Ortg/Drtg, best on the team (LMA is the only player positive at +1).

What more can he do to get minutes? Box out better? Stotts needs to put his best players on the floor, and Leonard's stats say he make the team better.

 

I think Leonard would get consistent minutes if he were more consistent on defense. Kid has shown he can score and rebound well, but is always out of place on defense. IMO, Stotts is trying to teach him by not letting him play until he figures out defense.

As for his PER, it is like 2.0 this month so far. Inconsistent minutes will do that to PER though.