Game Thread 2023-24 GAME #80 - BLAZERS VS WARRIORS - APRIL 11, 2024 - THURSDAY - 7:00 PM PST - ROOT

With about ten minutes to go I was thinking I wish Brogdon could come in now and finish them off.

 

think scoot just ran out of gas. his decision making is shakier when he's fatigued.

so many points to improve upon this summer

 

Good loss.

 

OK, game for Scoot. Sorry, I can't call games where any PG has more than 5 turnovers good.

However, fourth-quarter Scoot is pretty much unwatchable.

 

Blazers really missing a closer this year.

 

He's getting better and more comfortable. Rookie wall stifling Scoot's athleticism and second halfs. He'll need to work on conditioning in the summer.

 

Have absolutely no evidence of this except that a 20 year old guy seems to get very tired mentally and physically in ends of games. I assume the Blazers monitor every player closely but if they don't, I would think about hypoglycemia.

 

Scoot really needs to study hard on what a good pass is. He doesn't appear to know at this point.

over the last 9 games he's had 54 turnovers...that's 6 a game!

it's definitely the case that 1st-haf Scoot is a lot better than 2nd-half Scoot

 

I would have been happy with just having Banton available.

 

What happened to him?

 

I read an ankle issue. Probably some tanking bullshit

 

He's a rookie but that's rough, especially with his usage rate.

 

I think you might be onto something.

His quality of play recently has dropped so dramatically in the 4Q or late in the 3Q that probably at least is a part. He hasn't been playing this many games this many minutes against this quality of competition ever in his life. It would absolutely make sense that he tires and then his focus drifts ... at lot of his mistakes are "lack of focus" plays like settling for shots and making bad passes.

This definitely would explain that. I hope you're right. He just has looked like a completely different player from the first half to the 4Q in recent games.

 

7 of the top-10 highest turnover rates are bigs; guys who set a lot of screens at the point of attack; and are called for lots of offensive fouls as a result, which adds a turnover. Probably need to sort out front-court players from back court players. Or separate ball-handling + passing turnovers from moving screen turnovers

but yeah, I think Scoot's biggest issue isn't shooting, it's turnovers, and it's not getting better, it's getting worse. Over the last 9 games he's averaged 6 turnovers a game. I think those suggesting he's getting fatigued after about 22-25 minutes are onto something

by the way, after last night's 9 turnover extravaganza, Scoot's turnover rate climbed from 19.4% to 19.7%

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kind of unrelated...while searching for moving screen stats I found this:




I was surprised to see that Ayton ranks 12th in screen assists. I'm not sure I've ever seen a big who sets as many matador screens as Ayton so he's doing much better at this than I would have imagined