I don't know if its this video or a different one I saw, but it mentioned Scoot's 3P% goes way up when he holds the ball for 6 seconds or longer. I don't know why we would be playing him off-ball unless we're just getting him more minutes.
With Scoot shooting struggles I wonder if it's more important to often pair him with big man shooters? So for example always have him and Duop come in the game together. Could then still spread the court with 4 shooters, so our offense still has great spacing. Like some things I see from Scoot but I just don't see him succeeding in big minutes with traditional lineups this season. The bench has been much better for him though.
How worried are we about him being able to fix his shot? It looks really ugly, some of those misses weren’t even close. Is this a DSJ/Nkilitina situation?
It's all going to depend om his work ethic. He has to be maniacal about this because the physical tools are there. The learning curve is much steeper than I expected. He has to become a better finisher and shooter. That will be the first step in opening up the game for him. I got some Mudiay/Dennis Smith jr vibes last night while watching up close and in person. Need some more positive plays from him to get through these obstacles. But I am currently a little bit worried. Draymond pulled him aside spent quite a bit of time talking to him after the game....not sure if cameras caught that. CP3 and Steph also were constantly chatting with him during the game.
He’s just a super likeable kid. And everything I have read is that he’s a gym rat. It’s just gonna take time. But I have said before, he’s not as developed as I thought he was. As we were TOLD he was. I still think he’s gonna be good though.
As far as his shot, i think he jumps too high on his attempts. It would regulate hid form quite a bit more if he just jumps a little less.
His 2-point shots looked great in the last game. At one point in the game, he took the ball and hit a floater when his teammates (including Sharpe) were playing hot potato with the ball. Scoot was 4-6 on his 2-point shots (and 0-3 on his 3-point shots.)
Here are Scoots shots from the game against Golden State. The floater and mid-range jumper are looking very good. I would like to see more shot attempts of these types of shots. He actually made one of them (more of a flip-in shot) off of a miss of a 2-point shot by Anfernee Simons, rebounding and putting it back in.
Even though it was an offensive foul, it was impressive to me that he hit a finesse shot after running into a defender. This floater was well defended and went straight in. (at 1:30 on the video above.)
Yeah it appears his 2 pt mid-range shooting will be fine, 3 pointers hopefully improve over time he should take less of them for now, and his attacking the rim should improves as well with experience
He shoots the way he plays/moves on the court. That's his problem. Compare to how calm and relaxed Shae is when he shoots a three.
scoot is going to be fine, the stuff he is bad at is fixable, and the things he's good at are difficult/impossible to teach and/or god-given. but they're different things than what shae has, or chet, or any of these other prospects. because they're different players. people still seem to be coming to terms with the fact that he's not quite as baked coming into the league as we thought. and my guess is it'll take a while for people to get their feelings out about that, or in the case of national media types, it'll be a while before they fairly give him another look.
If he was too good we'd win more games this yr than I'd like, so him taking yr or two for Scoot is fine, maybe get a top 5 pick this yr and with the GS pick and see what happens.
I think we had too high of expectations. So seeing him play like a Mudiay level player has been bizarre. Right now he really ought to be with the Remix. But I'm not worried - he’ll breakout eventually.
I don't think the Remix is a good idea at all. I don't think the G League did him any favors. He needs to be playing in the NBA.
