JJ Hickson

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Mr. S£im Citrus

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So, it should be clear, by now, that Hickson was completely dogging it in Sacramento. Who had more to do with that, Hickson, or Smart?
 
Mr. S£im Citrus said:
So, it should be clear, by now, that Hickson was completely dogging it in Sacramento. Who had more to do with that, Hickson, or Smart?
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Im noticing hes getting most of his points off pick and rolls. This team practically never runs the pick and roll and i believe Smart has stated why before. Either way hes obviously playing for his nba life right now, and the kings releasing him was a kick in the butt a young guy needs.
 
JJ had two moves while he was here... The turn around 12 footer and alley oops. Now he can put up 29 and 13? Interesting
 
jcwkings said:
when your playing for your livelyhood anyting is possible. let me see him do this next december.
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He's also getting the minutes he needs to succeed over there since the only other big really worth his salt on that roster right now is Lamarcus.
 
I'm pretty disgusted that Hickson has been playing as well as he has since joining Portland....

21 pts, 9-10 shooting in 26 mins against OKC, then 12 pts 6 reb, on 6-10 shooting against NOH. Now Tonights 29pt 13 reb game... Was he purposely trying to suck in order to leave or is Portlands system just getting more out of its players.
 
Kings Faithful said:
I'm pretty disgusted that Hickson has been playing as well as he has since joining Portland....

21 pts, 9-10 shooting in 26 mins against OKC, then 12 pts 6 reb, on 6-10 shooting against NOH. Now Tonights 29pt 13 reb game... Was he purposely trying to suck in order to leave or is Portlands system just getting more out of its players.
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Don't care at all about JJ. He basically stepped into the 2011 Cavaliers again with the imploding Blazers. The Blazers can feature him as their big man while Aldridge is out. When he isn't the center of the offense, he blows.
 
JB_kings said:
Don't care at all about JJ. He basically stepped into the 2011 Cavaliers again with the imploding Blazers. The Blazers can feature him as their big man while Aldridge is out. When he isn't the center of the offense, he blows.
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This.

And somewhere in Portland, they are thinking: "Wow, we have found our Greg Oden."
 
Kings Faithful said:
I'm pretty disgusted that Hickson has been playing as well as he has since joining Portland....

21 pts, 9-10 shooting in 26 mins against OKC, then 12 pts 6 reb, on 6-10 shooting against NOH. Now Tonights 29pt 13 reb game... Was he purposely trying to suck in order to leave or is Portlands system just getting more out of its players.
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No Lamarcus and the fact that their third big man is 60 years old and their only other option is Thabeet (who by the way is playing worse than Hassan) means that his production was inevitably going to rise.
 
Tetsujin said:
No Lamarcus and the fact that their third big man is 60 years old and their only other option is Thabeet (who by the way is playing worse than Hassan) means that his production was inevitably going to rise.
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Oh, well that makes sense i guess. Regardless of his numbers he still has rubber hands.
 
Spok22 said:
Hickson BLOWING up in Portland right now.
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saw that. he gave up here, it's clear. he didn't want any part of this screwed up situation. He was just waiting/maneuvering to go to a place he wanted. Would not be surprised if he becomes Aldridges long term mate... and yes, potential all star. He fits very well there. body language TOTALLY different on the court.
 
He's playing for a contract on a team that openly went into full tank mode.
 
I think the big concern was that he didn't work with Cousins and you certainly don't boost Hickson at the expense of Cousins. With Aldridge the last of Portland's "Big 3" out and all their other assets shipped off at the deadline Hickson finds himself pretty much in the same spot he found himself in Cleveland last year. We're a different kind of bad team, unfortunately.
 
jcwkings said:
Im noticing hes getting most of his points off pick and rolls. This team practically never runs the pick and roll and i believe Smart has stated why before. Either way hes obviously playing for his nba life right now, and the kings releasing him was a kick in the butt a young guy needs.
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What he said. :)
 
we do have a pick and roll player by the name of jimmer. he's not being utilized either. maybe we should trade him so he can blow up too. :D
 
It's early and he's putting up numbers on a bad team, but if you've missed it, JJ Hickson is doing well in Portland.

In 35 games as a King, Hickson scored 165 points.

In 6 games with the Blazers, he's got 96. He's scored 15, 29, 12, 21, 4, and 14.
 
I saw some highlights of him the other night just throwing down dunks over guys like crazy. I was like, where the heck was that when he was with us?
 
Kings Faithful said:
I'm sure Portlands situation is helping him alot...but im pretty sure he was sandbagging it with us.
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Why would he be sandbagging it with us? Not sure I follow the logic. What would his net gain be? To go to a team whose future looks dimmer than ours right now? Not saying your wrong, but it doesn't make sense to me.
 
bajaden said:
Why would he be sandbagging it with us? Not sure I follow the logic. What would his net gain be? To go to a team whose future looks dimmer than ours right now? Not saying your wrong, but it doesn't make sense to me.
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IMHO he was just a terrible fit for this team and this team was a terrible fit for him. Its just about the worst player we could go for at PF and we were just about the worst team he could be sent to. When I say worst team, I really mean worst situation for him as a player.

This "marriage" was never going to work out. It sure as hell looked sexy on NBA2K12 but in real life, it was always disaster waiting to happen. JJ Hickson was everything we did NOT need in a PF and from his perspective, Cousins was everything he did NOT want in his frontcourt partner.

We never used him right and we were never going to get him involved as much as he needs to be involved. Hickson is a talented player but he needs to be in the right situation to be effective. He did not sandbag it here because he had everything everything to lose by doing that. He is in a contract year and if he ever needed to play well this was going to be the year.
 
bajaden said:
Why would he be sandbagging it with us? Not sure I follow the logic. What would his net gain be? To go to a team whose future looks dimmer than ours right now? Not saying your wrong, but it doesn't make sense to me.
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To go to a team that is a better fit. I think he feels like he could get a contract eventually of 10-15 mil/year. Probably sized up the situation here (after a little bit-- not saying he planned it from the get go), and saw he'd never be a major front line cog. You can imagine him going from the year he had last year... to then being maybe some kind of rebounding/put back specialist with us. He wouldn't have even been the number two scoring option in the post.
 
All he did was that turn around fade away jumper, and drop passes.

He obviously has talent, but clearly he didn't fit here. Time to move on.
 
UK_King said:
All he did was that turn around fade away jumper, and drop passes.

He obviously has talent, but clearly he didn't fit here. Time to move on.
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I think it's right to be annoyed when your team--desperate for talent, that really needs to make the most with every asset it has--has clearly mismanaged a piece that could have been valuable. At the very least, why not use JJ as the interior offensive focus when DMC is on the bench? Even if it's more on JJ, how is Portland's--interim, by the way--coach able to reach him but the Kings staff can't?
 
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