young players can certainly make significant improvements in their dribbling and shooting; even in their court vision and their reads by gaining some years of experience. But I'm a little skeptical that players improve on their BBIQ a lot. Maybe. But PG's? Westbrook arrived with incredible athleticism and low BBIQ and that didn't really change. CP3 displayed extremely high BBIQ as a rookie. Dame had high BBIQ he polished with experience. I know Scoot will learn and get better at decision making, but as you said, the hill he has to climb is incredibly steep right now. Maybe I'm too focused on his turnovers but he just hasn't made any progress there and so many of them are really dumb
he shot 49% on FG's and 42% on three's while playing all 82 games That was noticed Scoot shot 38.5% on FG's and 32.5% on three's while averaging 3.4 turnovers. That was noticed too
Bro you actually typed that Camara had a better season than Scoot. I would just stop right about now and come back in October.
there's nothing wrong with hyping up 1 rookie Blazer more then another. Friendly competition is an important aspect of building a team. And... if Camara gets really good, Cronin can make the roster worse by trading Toumani for a future pick.
Well, I predicted one thing right this year I guess.. Still not feeling the Scoot love that a lot of others are.
Shooting guard as opposed to point guard. Cannot say he didn’t deserve it. Just kind of shows the Thunder have some depth.
Camara did have a better season - he was an effective role player (although a below average role player). Scoot was a historically poor inefficient player and the worst starting PG in the NBA. Camara is 24 and Scoot is 20 so it doesn't mean it will always be that way.
bro...you can't fucking read apparently...and no, I didn't type what you said I typed I was talking about Cason Wallace...OBVIOUSLY you might want to 'take a break till October', or at least until you get some new glasses
he was a shooting guard that shot the ball excellently. 42% on 234 three's is something that gets noticed enough to get on a rookie team I don't know how Camara entered the discussion....
You can also say he played off the bench against guys that came off the bench mostly. Scoot played a bit more against starters. Again He had a great first year and probably deserved it. I also agree that the 82 games plus the minutes in the playoffs probably helped as well.
more than that though is that Scoot got a lot of negative press for his play. In part, that was a reaction to the hype he had pre-draft that he didn't come close to fulfilling. Scoot scored points and got assists. But he took lots of shots and had lots of turnovers. don't get me wrong...I'm not saying he's a bust by any means. I think that's nuts at this point. But after watching him this season, I question if he'll ever be a franchise level player like he was talked about as being. I've downgraded his ceiling a ways
The hype aspect and hype backlash is interesting. I wonder if he was the 23rd pick or something with the same stats would be make an all rookie team?
he wouldn't have made an all-rookie team, IMO but there wouldn't have been all the chatter about how disappointing he was
