Saying we were "tanking" is really weird and misleading. We had home court rapped up and went onto the WCF. We did sit most of our rotation players and Ant got a chance to be the guy and scored 37 got 9 assists in 48 minutes. Saying that Scoot isn't someone who could do that in three and a half months might be premature. I realize it wasn't close to as efficient but Scoot just put up 33 points and 9 assists in 40 minutes.
Clyde his rookie year was a bull in a China closet. Ramsey and Clyde would bump heads about Clyde putting his head down on a drive.
This is where I am at as well. I’m firmly in the boat that he’s not a bust - however… He’s been the most frustrating Blazer to watch since Oden. Flashes of dominance and then back into a major regression.
He's not showing consistency. Not too worried, but he sometimes looks like someone who still thinks he's faster and stronger than everyone else
I remember now: we wanted to lose so that we wouldn't get matched up with... the team we ended up getting matched up with. So not "tanking" in the trad. sense, but definitely not trying to win.
I guess the way I feel is that, unlike both Ant and Shae, who even as rookies could have stretches where you thought "holy shit, that's amazing!" and who always had smooth-as-butter jump shots, he always looks like a bull in a china shop. Now, some great players always look kind of graceless (Tim Duncan - amazing player, but not "smooth"), so I guess he could end up like that. But if someone forced me to bet, I'd bet against it.
A stretch implies more than one game. How many games did Simons have as a rookie where you thought "holy shit that's amazing?"
People have some serious revisionist history about Ant. For a long while people on here thought he was hot garbage.
I think he is what he is. He's a dynamic scorer. Maybe Scoot could turn into an Eric Snow to his Allen Iverson lol
Zero. I don’t remember him showing much at all his rookie year. I also remember midway through CJ’s 2nd year I was wanting him traded. I’ve gained more reason as I’ve gotten older and watched more hoops and realized that players blossom differently.
Yea and I think you’re missing the point, champ! It is VERY rare for someone to be as bad as Scoot has been so far to become an all-star or all-nba level talent… no matter how difficult it is to be a rookie PG.
