QRich3 wrote:Neddy wrote:QRich3 wrote:Yeah, Jamal's still really good at scoring in isolation, he was the 5th most efficient last year among players with at least 100 such possessions, right between Lillard and Durant. The problem is, even for the best in the league, isolations are still not very efficient possessions. So it's great to have a guy like that for broken plays to bail you out, but the problem, as we know, is when he takes too many of those possessions instead of deferring to say, let the best playmaker in the game and the best roll man in the league run a much more efficient pick'n'roll. If he was ready to be a role player and not bite more than he can chew, he'd be a really valuable piece to have, even with his bad defense. But we know he's never gonna be that.
whenever he is on the floor, it is obvious that we need the ball out of his hands until the clock in in a single digit. thus I advocate for Felton to be our primary backup PG and not Austin.
Yeah Felton should definitely be our full time back up PG, we'll see if Doc thinks the same. Although I like Austin defending opposing PGs more than anyone else on the bench, and on offense I like him much more playing next to a competent PG like Felton. He is not ready to run an offense by himself, that's for sure. And a lot of the time he shares the backcourt with Crawford, it's Jamal running things, which is probably even worse.
it seems like another lifetime ago when Austin Rivers was ranked #1 by Rivals in high school. but then again, that was a life time ago in terms of NBA's life span. Doc and Austin cannot live in that past. they must, in particular the son Austin must, find a way to carve his nitch in NBA. I don't think that path involves him being a PG. he needs to work on his shooting, continue to work on his defense, and maybe he can eventually live up to the contract that was a legacy program deal we haven't seen in clipperland before.
