Sergio Rodriguez thread num 2

LOL. Few years and I'll know Spanish as my 4th language.
It wasn't translated well this time, but knowing a lot of words, hearing a lot of games in Spanish, reading translated Spanish a lot helps you understand some of the unclear translated sentences after looking at the original text.

One of the things Sergio talk about there is that he is even more angry/disturbed when he is puled out of the court after short time on he floor and don't have consistency then when he doesn't play at all.

It also seems that he got close to Noc in the Kings.
 
iowamcnabb said:
I like him on the kings as well but he is probably going to be offered money the kings won't match for a 3rd pg.
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Even with Beno's consistence this year, I think a lot of us would still prefer Sergio being our 2nd PG. Besides, from what I've seen so far, I don't think coach Westphal is playing all 3 of them as clear-cut-ly 1st, 2nd, 3rd PG. Reke can always play 2 when Sergio or Beno is on the floor. Or even 3 and have both Beno and Sergio on the floor.
 
I'm not optimistic but not pesimistic neither. This week he hasn't played very good but I think the season is long and he'll have good games and he'll earn a contract at the end of the year. What I don't see clairly if he will end up playing for the Kings next year.

Appart from this last bad games, I'm by far more optimistic than when the season started and he had some DNP... I hope he gets into the rotations when Martin come backs agian.
 
Is it all you want for you favorite player - to get a contract?
What about playing? What about playing well? What about being a leader of a team, the director on the floor like a PG should be?

Maybe it is a reason why you optimistic, you have different goals.
 
That will come later I think... Nash started becoming a leader quite old, Sergio is still 23.

It would be fantastic if he gets more play time, but I understand Beno is being incredible this year and Tyreke is the franchise player and plays at an all-star level. Even with that roster, Westphall is having relative confidence in him and he had finally entered in the rotations when nobody cared who he was.
 
=LarryLegend= said:
I think hes a good fit here, just needs to work more on his game/ defense.
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He works a lot. If he won't succeed the last reason would be that he haven't work hard enough.

He is not quick (he is quick in ball-handling, it totally another thing), he is not athletic and he do what he can do.
I think that the damage he brings in defense is much more minor than it looks like sometimes.
The bulls are maybe not the smartest team but still you can see how many mistakes they made because they thought they had a mismatch and tried too hard to go on it.
 
drboiffard said:
That will come later I think... Nash started becoming a leader quite old, Sergio is still 23.

It would be fantastic if he gets more play time, but I understand Beno is being incredible this year and Tyreke is the franchise player and plays at an all-star level. Even with that roster, Westphall is having relative confidence in him and he had finally entered in the rotations when nobody cared who he was.
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Come on, if Westphall wanted he could find 15-20 minutes for him easily like he did in many games until the negative snow-ball started. It's Evens, Udrih, Udoka and him for 2 guard positions. And when Sergio played well 3 of them even played together.

As I explained in a long post in another thread, Sergio's game require a lot of sharpness, concentration and confidence, and without this he don't have any tools on the floor. And he don't have the trust he needs from a coach nor a status like Evens for example that he can made a lot of mistake but he always will get another chances.
 
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Against the Lakers he played in the time outs. It wasn't his best night and he wasn't very concentrated. But to play in a time out against the Lakers is enough confidence for a 3rd PG, I think.

If Evans finally doesn't play today, I guess he'll have big minutes.
 
Against the Lakers it was too late to give him time. As I told several games before, the Kings lost him. It takes much less time to ruin confidence that to rebuild it.

Why should Evens not to play?

You telling me now that I already didn't go to sleep on time so that I would be able to afford myself to wake up at the night?? :rolleyes:
 
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I did wake up but felt asleep again before Sergio got into the floor :rolleyes:

From all the posts here I understand that he played but didn't play well... both things as expected.

I cannot say that I'm optimistic now, of course, but I can see a scenario that he will be much better at the next game if Evens doesn't play again and he gets consistent minutes.
 
Yesterday he wasn't very fine...at least he did 6 assists. But has to improve his shoot, or be more concentrated I don't know.

I agree he isn't as allowed as other players to make mistakes and his game has to get consistent minutes to make the team run well, he isn't a scorer, he has to run the team. Anyway I think here he has more freedom than he had in Portland. If he has less minutes is because Beno and Tyreke are machines, not because the coach doesn't like his crazy play.

But he has to go more hard-minded. He has to grow stronger and deal with his irregular PT. He must squeeze his oportunities.
 
I was extremely frustrated watching Sergio last night. He had like 3-4 layups that didn't even hit the rim yet he kept trying to score. 11 shots for him is way too much. I feel like he's been pressing lately. Maybe he's feeling the pressure of potentially losing his minutes because he hasn't been playing well. With Martin coming back soon I just don't see how he's going to play at all.
 
LWP777 said:
I was extremely frustrated watching Sergio last night. He had like 3-4 layups that didn't even hit the rim yet he kept trying to score. 11 shots for him is way too much. I feel like he's been pressing lately. Maybe he's feeling the pressure of potentially losing his minutes because he hasn't been playing well. With Martin coming back soon I just don't see how he's going to play at all.
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I'm with you here. It was so frustrating seeing him in there instead of Donte as well. What's crazy is that 2 of those layups were actually point-blank and make-able, the others were just crazy hail marys.

I think the spanish chocolate is getting too much into his head. It always seems like he's trying to make something amazing happen, even when it's not there.
 
The problem with Sergio is that he only goes one speed, when I see him try to run an offense he only does two things. He either dribbles to his right, and only to his right into the paint, tries to pass it off while in the air, or shoot it.

or he just dribbles around aimlessly around the perimeter and passes it off to someone to chuck a three.

He really needs to learn how to switch gears, also it is a problem that he is a very frail pg, guards just overpower him
 
The problem with Sergio that he don't do well the things he does, not that he doesn't do another things. What other things he should do or can do?

Again, the thing is that when he does this things well, some of them (not all of them) seems easy and when they don't they seem stupid. They require a lot of sharpness and mental concentration this is the first think you lose when you lose confidence even a little bit.

Plus he depends a lot of his teammates. If nobody get opened for a pass lane he can find himself without options and takes shots he don't want to take, or maybe want but not when things don't go well for him.
 
LookingAround said:
I did wake up but felt asleep again before Sergio got into the floor :rolleyes:

From all the posts here I understand that he played but didn't play well... both things as expected.

I cannot say that I'm optimistic now, of course, but I can see a scenario that he will be much better at the next game if Evens doesn't play again and he gets consistent minutes.
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I know well my favorite player, don't I ?

btw, I didn't see the game, and Sergio is a kind of player you never really can trust the states about how good/bad he was.
Anyway it seems much better then the whole period since the game @Portland.
 
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LookingAround said:
I know well my favorite player, don't I ?

btw, I didn't see the game, and Sergio is a kind of player you never really can trust the states about how good/bad he was.
Anyway it seems much better then the whole period since the game @Portland.
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He played better, but that's not saying much. He was too intent on driving to the hoop and really didn't let the game come to him. In addition, he seemed to have completely forgotten that he also had to play defense.
 
0turnovers 15pts 6asissts and 2steals in 24 minutes are not bad numbers... I guess he was horrible in D. As the Kings lost it I think I won't see the match
 
drboiffard said:
0turnovers 15pts 6asissts and 2steals in 24 minutes are not bad numbers... I guess he was horrible in D. As the Kings lost it I think I won't see the match
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exactly... though the entire team was horrible defensively last night.
 
drboiffard said:
0turnovers 15pts 6asissts and 2steals in 24 minutes are not bad numbers... I guess he was horrible in D. As the Kings lost it I think I won't see the match
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ok look stats lines can be incredibly misleading... going by the numbers i agree with you that "ON PAPER" it looks awesome....

unless......

you actually watched the game like i did.... sergio is a mess.... he tries to iso his defender way to often.... which results in him running the shot clock down to the point where his only option is to shoot.... which in turn leads to a terrible shot.... thus in my book is as good as a TO!!! and going by what i saw last night he had as many TO's as he did ast's....

dont get me wrong he made some good plays and a few good shots... he HAS skill....

but he doesn't look to do whats best for the team each time or tries to do to much or be flashy... and mostly looks out of control and selfish...

plus hes a terrible defender!!! his steals were the result of both teams playing like garbage... and being totally careless with the ball
 
T4L3NT3D530 said:
ill take a 3.5 a/t ratio anyday from the backup pg.
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Who are you talking about? his A/T ratio is 2.35...

As for whomever asked about his Assists per minute, he is ranked 7th in the NBA. However, coming up 9th is Marcus Williams, with a A/T ratio of 2.57. As 3rd string pgs go, these two are pretty evenly matched. Take it w/a grain of salt.
 
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