I saw the bad Scoot pass live, then found the replay. I went over it several times in slowMo... i was left befuddled. option 1: Scoot saw Duop streaking through, and fired a pass at the back of his head. option 2: Scoot thought Doup might stop at the 3 point line, which is why the pass was behind Doup. option 3: Scoot thought the lady ref was a Blazer, and didn't pick up Duop running through the passing lane to the referee.
It should be concerning that he looks basically the same now as he did in game #1 of the season. At least he isn’t rocking a -7 PER anymore though
Scoot with 22 points on 9 shots 3 for 4 from three, only 1 turnover with 4 assists 2 steals and 1 block to wrap it up. GIVE THIS DUDE MORE RUN!!! (aka usage)
I appreciate that Scoot took advantage of his opponents (PHI) in garbage time. A really good 4th quarter for him.
You have to stop kicking the can down the road at some point and try to win with what you have. You usually only get 1 significant difference maker per 3 top 10 picks anyway.
That’s a loaded question. Of course this isn’t a cemented fact. But how sure are we on anything like this? With that said, I’m pretty confident. Like 80-85% sure we have the right guy for the time being.
3 straight games of shooting at least 50% from the field. Also... think it was mentioned on the broadcast last night, but he has hit like 27 straight FTs. If you remove his abysmal October shooting the three, his 3pt shooting is passable for a teenage rookie at 34%.
kind of looks like normal variance, at least on FG's and FT's, and he's just in a hot streak now. On FG's, the three games before this 3 game streak he was 12-36 on FG's. And in the three games before his current FT streak, he was 7-15 still, when he re-sets to a norm, each new reset seems to have a little higher mark than the previous one. He's back over 40% on two's; that's not good but it's better than the 38% he was batting a while ago as far as his three's, he's been doing a lot better lately. But I don't like that 1/3 of his FGA have been three's. I think that's too high a rate for him. Obviously teams are baiting him to shoot them and constantly going under screens so three's are available, but he needs to resist the temptation a little more often by the way, he has also improved his FG%-at-the-rim lately. He was hovering around the 50-51% mark most of the year. But then he had a disastrous showing over about 7 games and had dropped all the way down to .487, IIRC. He's now at .502 if he could use his left hand I think just about all parts of his offense would improve. That's what he needs to work on the most next summer
I think 1/3 of Scoot's FGA's have been threes due to the way he is being used by CB. Much of the time he is the off guard watching Ant or Brogdon doing what Scoot was brought in to do. He pretty much gets the kick out when the others get stopped or the shot clock is nearing zero.
Billups in his postgame last night said he has been telling Scoot to pull up if defenders keep dropping that far under. He said Scoot has to start applying what he spends his time training on into practice in games. Scoot echoed the same in his postgame. I like that mentality. His two biggest issues that are leading most of his problems are his finishing at the rim and his shooting. Once he starts improving even to average levels at those two things, his game will take an astronomical leap. Just needs reps as Brogdon said. Trading Malcolm is paramount.
His post actually had a bunch of positive in it. I was just messing with him. I hope he knows I was not really being serious. Just having fun with it.
