[Game] Hawks vs Kings 11/18/2024, 7pm PST 10pm EST

hrdboild

Moloch in whom I dream Angels!
Staff member
Keegan shrinking and shrinking when he’s needed stinks. I still think he pulls out of it, but dang man I was hoping for a third year jump.

This mini schedule break is going to be huge. Injuries just too much to handle!
Look, to be fair (and I hope I don't get accused of coddling) Keegan has only shrunk as a scorer. In every other way he's continued to improve and he has continued to step up big-time both as an individual/team defender and as a rebounder. He's also improved as a playmaker while maintaining a turnover rate which is among the best in the league for high minute players. Obviously we'd love for him to return to college form as a high volume scorer in addition to all of that but we're less than 1/4 of the way through his 3rd season and until very recently he's been the 4th (and sometimes 5th, when Monk is rolling) option on the floor... so a bit of leeway in adjusting to his changing role seems warranted.

His aggressiveness as a scorer does go up when he sees the ball go in the net so maybe the solution here is to run more plays for him early in the game?
 
Look, to be fair (and I hope I don't get accused of coddling) Keegan has only shrunk as a scorer. In every other way he's continued to improve and he has continued to step up big-time both as an individual/team defender and as a rebounder. He's also improved as a playmaker while maintaining a turnover rate which is among the best in the league for high minute players. Obviously we'd love for him to return to college form as a high volume scorer in addition to all of that but we're less than 1/4 of the way through his 3rd season and until very recently he's been the 4th (and sometimes 5th, when Monk is rolling) option on the floor... so a bit of leeway in adjusting to his changing role seems warranted.

His aggressiveness as a scorer does go up when he sees the ball go in the net so maybe the solution here is to run more plays for him early in the game?
No argument here. He's doing a great job defensively.

Plus hey, one of us gotta be the coddling one... lol