Bricklayer
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Kingsgurl said:Not complaining, just pointing out the bar had been raised, which is actually a good thing. Some people thought he was not capable of averaging double digits in the NBA and now he is knocking on the door at 9.4. (and that 2nd offensive foul was crap, should have been an And 1)
The real interesting thing is that he WASN'T good enough to average double figures in the NBA. And not that long ago either. His game has grown by leaps and bounds in the last year. And really the last 2 months. That awful looking windup twist flatfoot set shot thingie has largely been reworked (you can still see remnants), and now the kid who couldn't shoot straight can hit open jumpers as a matter of course as long as his feet are set. Furthermore, the kid who had absolutley no inbetween game to go with the no jumper, and so spent all his time charging into the lane out of control trying to force the drive, all of a sudden has come up with several different pullups off the drive that he is not only taking, but making. Its actually a fairly remarkable revolution in such a short time.
Remarkable enough in fact, that while I certainly know nothing about the program or coach, I do have to question why if he had the potential for a well rounded game did nobody pull him aside in college and work on it with him. I suspect the answer is just that at the small college level it was just too easy for him to charge into the paint and jump over the 6'7" Cs he was facing, and so maybe he didn't see the need to do it differently, nor did the coaches feel a need to work wtih him on growing his game, because what he was doing was working. Nonetheless, this has all come fairly quickly, and it appears that all he needed was somebody to challenge him. There was a real danger for his career when he got himself benched there at the end of November. But in the end maybe it did him some real good.
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