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Ryan Anderson - 22 mins, 0 pts, 2 boards, 2 assists and 2 turnovers... Awesome... [emoji35]
TJ played 13 minutes, delivered a scoreless 0 for 5 and grabbed 3 boards.
Ryan Anderson - 22 mins, 0 pts, 2 boards, 2 assists and 2 turnovers... Awesome... [emoji35]
Doncic has not even be a positive on the court despite starting hot shooting and is a turnover machine.
We get it you don't like him. Your starting to sound like Mitch with his Peterson obsession.
The rest of his team sucks. He's a great player and playmaker. Playmakers average more turnovers trying to make plays. What excuse do we have for all our turnovers?
How about the rest of our team sucks even more than the rest of Doncic's team, and by quite a bit IMO. Especially since Booker isn't up to speed yet having missed so much time (offseason, preseason, and a week of the regular season).
TJ played 13 minutes, delivered a scoreless 0 for 5 and grabbed 3 boards.
I actually DO like him. I was stumpti g all last season for him. Unfortunately I think I had just too great of expectations and now I’m feeling let down. I still would’ve taken him over everyone else in the draft even knowing what I know now about him. And I still have great hope that he’ll be a generational player for us. But I see so many areas where he needs improvement and I’m admittedly impatient. That and I’ve never understood the fanboy mentality where you can’t admit your favorite team or player has holes or negatives.We get it you don't like him. Your starting to sound like Mitch with his Peterson obsession.
I actually DO like him. I was stumpti g all last season for him. Unfortunately I think I had just too great of expectations and now I’m feeling let down. I still would’ve taken him over everyone else in the draft even knowing what I know now about him. And I still have great hope that he’ll be a generational player for us. But I see so many areas where he needs improvement and I’m admittedly impatient. That and I’ve never understood the fanboy mentality where you can admit your favorite team or player has holes or negatives.
I actually DO like him. I was stumpti g all last season for him. Unfortunately I think I had just too great of expectations and now I’m feeling let down. I still would’ve taken him over everyone else in the draft even knowing what I know now about him. And I still have great hope that he’ll be a generational player for us. But I see so many areas where he needs improvement and I’m admittedly impatient. That and I’ve never understood the fanboy mentality where you can’t admit your favorite team or player has holes or negatives.
It's pretty clear to me, in today's rules, I'd have taken Doncic.
Sounds like in the land of hindsight 20/20, you’d be an all-world NBA GM! [emoji106]
Sounds like in the land of hindsight 20/20, you’d be an all-world NBA GM! [emoji106]
I don't agree with much of what he's saying about Ayton but I think he's right about Doncic being a better fit in Koko's offense. I'd still take Ayton but as Deandre learns the game Koko is going to have to adapt to his strengths.
Yes. I'm not an NBA GM, but I see a miss here by our front office.
I'm not so sure we'd be just as bad if we took Doncic. He has an alpha instinct. Ayton is obviously a beta. Puts up numbers, but doesnt have that killer instinct, just like we saw at UofA last year.
We get it you don't like him. Your starting to sound like Mitch with his Peterson obsession.
See my response above...
I actually DO like him. I was stumpti g all last season for him. Unfortunately I think I had just too great of expectations and now I’m feeling let down. I still would’ve taken him over everyone else in the draft even knowing what I know now about him. And I still have great hope that he’ll be a generational player for us. But I see so many areas where he needs improvement and I’m admittedly impatient. That and I’ve never understood the fanboy mentality where you can’t admit your favorite team or player has holes or negatives.
I don't agree with much of what he's saying about Ayton but I think he's right about Doncic being a better fit in Koko's offense. I'd still take Ayton but as Deandre learns the game Koko is going to have to adapt to his strengths.
I don't really understand this. I stated my reasoning for Doncic before the draft. Because I'm stating this now when Doncic has been more effective, it has no validity?
Actually you DON'T get it because you refuse to engage in any kind of conversation that doesn't fit into your black or white world. For you, if someone makes any critical comment about Ayton they're "haters!"
Ouchie REPEATEDLY banged FOR Ayton all last year on U of A, wanted him over Doncic and when he plays well, is beyond stoked. And when he sees things he's worried about, he says so.
Just because you can seemingly only view things in black and white terms, doesn't mean others are intellectually as limited in their opinions. People can be critical of things AND still like a player. It's not that hard to have a multitude of opinions about different parts of player's games.
You don't draft someone #1 overall to fit your coach's style, especially when that coach has never been a head coach in the NBA. Igor only had the head coach job for 2 weeks at the time of the draft. I would get his input on who he likes but I wouldn't give it that much weight. It should have been made clear that he needed to build a system around our talent rather than trying to force our talent into his system. He's not Phil Jackson or Popovich. His system hasn't won anything at this level yet and we lack talent. Trying to force what talent we do have to play in his system could be part of why our guys have struggled.
I can admit when a player had holes in his game but I also have perspective and an understanding of the game. He's a rookie in his first 10 games. Every game your on here talking about how embarrassing he is when he's actually been pretty damn impressive.
Big men take longer to adjust especially when you consider he's a big man who has no one to get him the ball and I do mean NO ONE.
This offense isn't designed to run through the low post like it's 1998. Your not going to see him calling for it on the block because that's not what he's asked to do.
I really honestly don't know what you expected dude but we've gone over this before. I expect flashes of greatness and games where he looks lost, you know like a rookie.
The reason this team is bad is because we are getting nothing out of 3 of the 5 positions our forwards JJ, Warren, Ariza, Anderson have all be spotty if not just downright bad, our PG situation is the worse in the league and our centers have been chandler and Holmes...meh.
I meant this response:
“Amazing how people can draw such definitive positions on a 20!year old big man averaging a double double in the first 10 games of his NBA career...”
I actually do see him calling for it on the block. More often than not, his defender pokes it away or repositions himself in front. He puts up numbers, but his lack of assertiveness is deeply troubling, particularly for someone picked first. For those that are watching the games, yet are unwilling to admit this, seems to me are lying to themselves.