George Hill
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I’m going to propose a hypothetical defense of Hill. Hill succeeded at both Utah and San Antonio which are very pass centric team basketball kind of teams. He has good basketball IQ and moves well on and off the ball.
Kosta is that kind of player but ZBo is not. If you go to NBA.com ZBo has the highest usage of regular Kings players and Kosta has the lowest. Almost half of Zbo’s usage. With ZBo if you throw him the ball he can often get you a bucket but the man often isn’t going to pass it out or hit the cutter. His assist percentage is almost half of Kostas.
That type of player is a horrible mix with Hill. It’s okay for Hills assists (he had 7) but death to his scoring because Hill isn’t a Kyrie that can take anyone off the dribble. Hill is the type who would make a pass, make a cut, make a layup. But if that pass back never occurs then Hill doesn’t score.
Many of the Kings players fit that model. Bogdan, Buddy, Justin. It’s not an accident the team had 14 assists in the second quarter and that many of those players look better in the second team playing with Kosta and not ZBo.
Kosta is that kind of player but ZBo is not. If you go to NBA.com ZBo has the highest usage of regular Kings players and Kosta has the lowest. Almost half of Zbo’s usage. With ZBo if you throw him the ball he can often get you a bucket but the man often isn’t going to pass it out or hit the cutter. His assist percentage is almost half of Kostas.
That type of player is a horrible mix with Hill. It’s okay for Hills assists (he had 7) but death to his scoring because Hill isn’t a Kyrie that can take anyone off the dribble. Hill is the type who would make a pass, make a cut, make a layup. But if that pass back never occurs then Hill doesn’t score.
Many of the Kings players fit that model. Bogdan, Buddy, Justin. It’s not an accident the team had 14 assists in the second quarter and that many of those players look better in the second team playing with Kosta and not ZBo.
Don’t worry about Hill, he will come along as the team around him comes along. Bogs is getting acclimated, Buddy is struggling to be a reliable scorer as he has in the past, Temple knows he’s stop gap, Willie continues to look for a game, Zbo is a scorer first, a team player second. It seems a lot more difficult to get that bunch to click together than the kids and Koufos in the second unit. It’ll come around.
I don't know if it's that bad, but we've come a long way from the "Hill will help a ton now. But, if Fox is ready now, the Kings can readily flip Hill for a 1st rounder at any point between January 2018 and the February 2019."
He's in Sacramento because most of the teams with cap space didn't want to pay him that salary. You can get out of the last year, but next season is pricey at 19 million.
He's an injury risk.
He's playing very poorly.
He's probably signed his last contract of significance.
I'm generally in favor of riding out this entire season because he has to play better. But if he's crummy most of the year, he's a rough contract. A team would be taking on $19 million of 18-19 salary for a back up point guard, who had real questions as to whether: he's physically still got it; and/or he's mentality, financially, otherwise still in a spot where he can get it back.
He's in Sacramento because most of the teams with cap space didn't want to pay him that salary. You can get out of the last year, but next season is pricey at 19 million.
He's an injury risk.
He's playing very poorly.
He's probably signed his last contract of significance.
I'm generally in favor of riding out this entire season because he has to play better. But if he's crummy most of the year, he's a rough contract. A team would be taking on $19 million of 18-19 salary for a back up point guard, who had real questions as to whether: he's physically still got it; and/or he's mentality, financially, otherwise still in a spot where he can get it back.
My only problem with Hill is that he over dribbles at times. He drove me nuts last night in the second half dribbling away the shot clock and then ending up with a highly contested, and sometimes wild prayer shot. I realize he's playing off the ball, but that doesn't mean he has to throw all of his PG skills out the window and try to be Michael Jordan. Just saying!