The way I look at it, the best way to gauge any player is at age 23-24. That's the player they're going to be. That's four years of college and one year pro. They might increase their production a bit through their prime, but that's a bonus. So Scoot is essentially a sophomore in college right now. I don't think he's the number 3 pick yet, but we'll see.
Correct, just the good moments are far and few between yet not recognized on here. Not a word til I mentioned this.
Why should there be? This thread is about eating crow by those who thought Litle Scooter isn't a bust (relative to his draft position and expectations). The original poster is critical of him, so that was the intent.
Lighten up son. I couldn’t find the Scoot is a bust thread. This place gets to hating and it never changes. Billups gets murdered for EVERY lose and then crickets on a win. Same here with Scoot. 20 year old is getting killed constantly and when he plays well it’s hush hush time.
I'm glad you have incompetence on your mind, and where did you learn camera angles? Did you take Geometry in high school, or some crappy neighborhood community college? You know the obtuse angles, but if I were you I wouldn't use the term "acute angle."
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena" Scoot will be good, if not great. Fun to watch him develop along with the rest of the players and team as a whole.
I actually agree that he'll be good. The years of delay is caused by a combination of his playful short attention span, and the coach. You never read of Scooter saying after a game, "I learned that amazing move watching (player name) on film (or TV)." He hasn't added to the small repertoire of ordinary offensive moves he brought from high school.
I posted this in the ‘Bust a Scoot’ thread that you couldn’t find - Not everyone in this forum is as perfectly balanced as you and I, @THE HCP . We just have to learn to smile at the bi-polar nature of the common posters we have to put up with here in this forum. With that said, Scoot may have had 19/6/5/4 with only 1 turnover, but those 2 missed free throws by Scoot on Saturday are a sure indication of a dark future for him. Am I right?
Absolutely correct! That is a sure indicator he is not perfect and thus entropy will rule and his skills will increasingly decline. If only he had made them, the future would look much brighter....
Over the last ten games Scoot is averaging (per 48) 21.6 points, 8.2 assists (3.4 TOs) and 5.6 rebounds (.1 more than Jerami). He's also shooting 11/35 from 3. Not bad! His FT% is not amazing at 77%, but his FG% is his real weak spot at 37%
He's put together good games before, usually 2 or 3. His issue is keeping it up and not going from solid performance to being invisible on the court and not a detriment to the team. He needs to string together 5-6 games in a row (or 5 out of 7 games) where he's playing like this. Not saying he has to scored 19 points and have 10 assists to 1 turnover type numbers though.
I think it needs to be a 20-30 game stretch as a gauge. His clunker rate has been 50-60%. That needs to drop to 10-20%. he doesn't need to have a great (for him) game rate of 60%. He just needs to cut way down on the terrible games. That's the first step to consistency
I understand that. I'm just saying we need at least a 20-30 game sample size to gauge what kind of consistency is sustainable. We know he can have a great game every once in a while. What we don't know is how often he can have solid games compared to clunkers. The clunker rate has been way too high so far
