BRoy gettin nasty (front page article from Yahoo)

By Marc Spears: http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news;_y...?slug=mc-royblazers031610&prov=yhoo&type=lgns

 

Roy does need to get more aggressive with his game overall. Not just his scoring. I suppose there is a balance between ignoring criticism and using it to become better, but the last thing I want Roy to do is emulate Kome with his shot selection.

 

“I can flip the switch and go from scorer to playmaker,” Bryant said. “I’m sure he can flip the switch to go from playmaker to scorer. He has all of the skills to do it.

Very nice compliment from Kobe Bryant.

I can only imagine some of the things I'd read on this board, and others, if Brandon suddenly starts scoring more. I think he should, since he's basically unguardable when he's hot, but aesthetically, I'm not sure if some fans could handle it.

 

Part of me sees it that way.

The other part says, that as bad as Kobe can be at times in terms of shot selection, he's still a 46% career FG shooter. Plus, he has 4 titles.

 

I have no problem with B-Roy shooting the ball more but he already does shoot a very high percentage of the total shots taken so I don't know how many more are really available.

Perhaps the best way to get B-Roy more shots would be to have an offense that isn't last in the league in pace?

 

Good. he has seemed to take this to heart recently, looking to be really aggressive early in games, and it has helped us in those games. If he gets off hot and rolling, others will fall in line around it, because it will open up more for everyone else and make things easier for everyone else.

 

USG% is pace neutral, and Roy is in the mid-20s while Bryant is in the mid-to-low-30s. He could probably have the ball in his hands even more and we'd see even more production, since Roy is such and efficient scorer. I don't think anyone can make the argument that Roy is being used too much, can they?

 

I don't mind roy taking more shots... at the end of the day which blazer do you want to have his hands on the ball in critical situations? Hands down BRoy.

 

Nope. Did not stop people from making these arguments earlier this year on this very board. I agree, if anything, we do not use Roy enough.

 

What do you think he said here? Badass? Asshole? Motherfucker?

 

I'm going with "dick".

 

Pimp-Ass MotherFucker!

 

I was just thinkning, maybe it's Roy's way of indirectly calling Kome a [expletive]

 

I like the way you think...

 

I do... this club has many scorers besides BR and I think he should allow them to be involved for better play overall. He gets the lionshare of opportunities at the end of the clock and in crunch time so getting his 15 or so attempts isn't in question... no need to be obscene about jacking up crap like KB often is

STOMP

 

The "obscene" Kobe shoots at a 46% clip for his career and gets to the foul line. The funny thing is, Roy is an even more efficient scorer, yet has a much lower usage rate.

I might have to start criticizing Nate for under-utilitizing Roy, who is one of the elite offensive players in the NBA, yet seems forced at times to spread the ball around.

 

I didn't say how many more I thought Roy should take. Somewhere around 20 a game would be awesome. 30 a game would be a bit much.

 

I was refering to the raw number of shots available to be taken by a Blazer player and the amount of those Roy currently uses. He could take proportionally more shots if Portland sped the game up just a bit.

Like enough so that Roy could average 18 to 20 shots a game but the percentage of total shots take wouldn't rise as much.

I was not refering to the Usage Percentage stat.

 

Usage% is about the percent of possessions he is used when he is on the court - not necessarily about the number of shots he takes.

At the end of the day, Roy is such a good decision maker and he is such a willing passer - that putting the ball in his hands more often is not a liability, imho. I do not think he needs to get to 37% like D-Wade does - but he is used as much as Joe Johnson - a player that is a lot like him, only not as efficient and capable, imho - and there is no need not to get Roy a little closer to the Kobe 32% or LeBron's 33.5% than keep him at the 27% he is used now.

 

veery high praise from kobe...he just said he has the second best offensive game in the nba