I've been checking out this thread, and I know who Christian Wood is, but who the heck is HC3 or whatever his screen name is?
https://nypost.com/2020/10/16/nba-free-agency-carmelo-anthony-suddenly-looking-ripped/ Not the most reliable source, but in this case they might be right.
I'm not sure this kid is even draft eligible NEXT year. He's taller than Gobert: Using Dad Strength to get revenge:
Yeah, he's sixteen and his name isn't LeBron James. Gobert looked like that when he was 20. I bet by the time he is draft eligible in a couple years he'll still be wiry but will have added a lot of muscle tone and bulked up a little or who knows because he's 16 by the time he's 18 he might be a beast.
https://thesportsrush.com/nba-news-...s-stars-future-is-dependent-on-cp3s-decision/ Again, take it FWIW.
Yeah been on 4 teams in 5 years has played in a grand total of 113 NBA games. Probably not "One of the MOST talented young players in the league" but he did have a pretty nice run last year with 13 and 6 on 21 mins a game. No i didn't know anything about him either and i had to look him up.
He's been in and out of the G-League since he left college. I see him as very like Hassan Whiteside in that he bounced around until he worked it out and found the right place for him. Hope he stays with the Pistons because he might not find a place so conducive to him, and they're the ones who believed in him.
It's always a nice story to see a player work really hard and find a good place that uses him well. As the old saying goes "You never fail until you quit".
is that fucking real???...they put Melo on the same page as Walton, Drexler, and Dame?....cause if it's not a joke it's about the lamest thing I've seen from blazerland since Steele's jersey was retired
first, IMO, TS is not "too harsh" or too mild; it simply is what it is. I'd also argue that Kyrie's .575 is significantly better than CJ's .552 CJ is right around the league average for TS over the last 5 years (and worse this season). In and of itself, that's ok. But the context in this case, is important. A player with an average TS, but who is nearly elite at catch & shoot (CJ) while carrying an average usage rate without much dribbling and shot clock usage, can be valuable asset to an offense. But that's not CJ. He dominates the ball, uses lots of possessions, and burns lots of shot clock dribbling. Much of that ball dominance and shot clock could be channeled to more efficient players if only Portland had better play-makers (like an actual 2nd PG) in an offense that wasn't so remedial. Look at the significant drop-off from Nurkic to CJ. Portland averaged 91 shots a game and half of those shots went to CJ, Melo, Simons, and Hezonja why was that? What was the reason so many of Portland's possessions were invested in low efficiency? maybe then you need to think about FT's and which players were worse at drawing fouls: that's one of the critical areas that TS% gauges. And the 4 players that took half of Portland's shots ranked 10th, 13th, 14th, and 17th on the team in generating FT's. Again, TS is not "too harsh" a stat; it's a good gauge, and in this case points directly at a major flaw in Portland's roster & offense construction....IMO of course
