Re: PG: Knicks-Thunder
Posted: Sat Jan 9, 2021 5:51 pm
Agreed with all. He wanted to get that floater And1 but needed to shoot.
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F N 11 wrote:RJ looks lost being relegated to spot up shooter. It’s not rocket science. Put shooters around he and Randle. Payton and Bullock are not shooters...
Rather start Knox and Rivers right now.
3toheadmelo wrote:Gravy wrote:3toheadmelo wrote:Hi NoDopeOnSunday lol
We all woke up with energy for RJ today
I think RJ will be fine as a 3rd option but the excuses for him sucking is wild.
Richard4444 wrote:3toheadmelo wrote:Gravy wrote:We all woke up with energy for RJ today
I think RJ will be fine as a 3rd option but the excuses for him sucking is wild.
RJ will always be a high usage player. He cant be a off-ball player because he is not a shooter. He is more a sixth man than a third option.
Richard4444 wrote:3toheadmelo wrote:Gravy wrote:We all woke up with energy for RJ today
I think RJ will be fine as a 3rd option but the excuses for him sucking is wild.
RJ will always be a high usage player. He cant be a off-ball player because he is not a shooter. He is more a sixth man than a third option.
F N 11 wrote:RJ looks lost being relegated to spot up shooter. It’s not rocket science. Put shooters around he and Randle. Payton and Bullock are not shooters...
Rather start Knox and Rivers right now.
robillionaire wrote:i have concerns that we will have to max out RJ because he will be putting up numbers but they will be so inefficient and not really contributing to winning that it will end up being a really bad contract. of course he has 2 and a half years to improve his game but as of right now he's looking like a wiggins type deal waiting to happen, except his FG% is so absurdly low wiggins looks amazing in comparison.
dude is shooting 38% from the field and 21% from 3. Far worse than last year. I don't even think he should be starting unless they decide to change things up and change his role in the offense. His shooting percentages are grotesque and he's playing far and away the most minutes of anybody in the NBA at 38.8 mpg
I don't know why he gets a pass for this when any other young player on this team shooting 38% and 21% would be getting eviscerated instead of having every excuse made for it, that's the only reason I bring it up, it's a problem and we still aren't ready for that conversation yet
robillionaire wrote:i have concerns that we will have to max out RJ because he will be putting up numbers but they will be so inefficient and not really contributing to winning that it will end up being a really bad contract. of course he has 2 and a half years to improve his game but as of right now he's looking like a wiggins type deal waiting to happen, except his FG% is so absurdly low wiggins looks amazing in comparison.
dude is shooting 38% from the field and 21% from 3. Far worse than last year. I don't even think he should be starting unless they decide to change things up and change his role in the offense. His shooting percentages are grotesque and he's playing far and away the most minutes of anybody in the NBA at 38.8 mpg
I don't know why he gets a pass for this when any other young player on this team shooting 38% and 21% would be getting eviscerated instead of having every excuse made for it, that's the only reason I bring it up, it's a problem and we still aren't ready for that conversation yet
Chanel Bomber wrote:robillionaire wrote:i have concerns that we will have to max out RJ because he will be putting up numbers but they will be so inefficient and not really contributing to winning that it will end up being a really bad contract. of course he has 2 and a half years to improve his game but as of right now he's looking like a wiggins type deal waiting to happen, except his FG% is so absurdly low wiggins looks amazing in comparison.
dude is shooting 38% from the field and 21% from 3. Far worse than last year. I don't even think he should be starting unless they decide to change things up and change his role in the offense. His shooting percentages are grotesque and he's playing far and away the most minutes of anybody in the NBA at 38.8 mpg
I don't know why he gets a pass for this when any other young player on this team shooting 38% and 21% would be getting eviscerated instead of having every excuse made for it, that's the only reason I bring it up, it's a problem and we still aren't ready for that conversation yet
RJ is a bad player who impacts the team negatively overall, no question.
I think you can live with those struggles if he plays hard and shows improvement. The first part is fine, the trouble is that his shooting percentages have regressed from last season.
I guess I'm just waiting for a bigger sample size with RJ.
I'll admit that - for this season at least - it's hard to see a pathway to respectability in terms of shooting. He doesn't seem to have good touch from distance, and he's missing bunnies at the rim, which makes you question if the touch is ever gonna be there. Perhaps the elephant in the room is, is he shooting with the wrong hand? Simmons definitely is, and we know how that turnt out, but it worked out fine for LeBron.
I think RJ's a long-term project, as I didn't expect him to become a positive impact player until year 3 or 4. But if he keeps struggling, he better focus on the defensive side of the ball and become a lockdown defender to make up for his shooting deficiencies.
He still plays with more of a pulse than Knox and Frank did in their first two seasons. He's more active off-the-ball than Frank ever was, and he's playing better defense than Knox.
robillionaire wrote:Chanel Bomber wrote:robillionaire wrote:i have concerns that we will have to max out RJ because he will be putting up numbers but they will be so inefficient and not really contributing to winning that it will end up being a really bad contract. of course he has 2 and a half years to improve his game but as of right now he's looking like a wiggins type deal waiting to happen, except his FG% is so absurdly low wiggins looks amazing in comparison.
dude is shooting 38% from the field and 21% from 3. Far worse than last year. I don't even think he should be starting unless they decide to change things up and change his role in the offense. His shooting percentages are grotesque and he's playing far and away the most minutes of anybody in the NBA at 38.8 mpg
I don't know why he gets a pass for this when any other young player on this team shooting 38% and 21% would be getting eviscerated instead of having every excuse made for it, that's the only reason I bring it up, it's a problem and we still aren't ready for that conversation yet
RJ is a bad player who impacts the team negatively overall, no question.
I think you can live with those struggles if he plays hard and shows improvement. The first part is fine, the trouble is that his shooting percentages have regressed from last season.
I guess I'm just waiting for a bigger sample size with RJ.
I'll admit that - for this season at least - it's hard to see a pathway to respectability in terms of shooting. He doesn't seem to have good touch from distance, and he's missing bunnies at the rim, which makes you question if the touch is ever gonna be there. Perhaps the elephant in the room is, is he shooting with the wrong hand? Simmons definitely is, and we know how that turnt out, but it worked out fine for LeBron.
I think RJ's a long-term project, as I didn't expect him to become a positive impact player until year 3 or 4. But if he keeps struggling, he better focus on the defensive side of the ball and become a lockdown defender to make up for his shooting deficiencies.
He still plays with more of a pulse than Knox and Frank did in their first two seasons. He's more active off-the-ball than Frank ever was, and he's playing better defense than Knox.
well if the measuring stick is frank and knox that's a pretty scary sign
he's going to have to completely rework his shot. when you're shooting 21% you've got nothing to lose. tear it down and start from scratch
god shammgod wrote:
god shammgod wrote:robillionaire wrote:i have concerns that we will have to max out RJ because he will be putting up numbers but they will be so inefficient and not really contributing to winning that it will end up being a really bad contract. of course he has 2 and a half years to improve his game but as of right now he's looking like a wiggins type deal waiting to happen, except his FG% is so absurdly low wiggins looks amazing in comparison.
dude is shooting 38% from the field and 21% from 3. Far worse than last year. I don't even think he should be starting unless they decide to change things up and change his role in the offense. His shooting percentages are grotesque and he's playing far and away the most minutes of anybody in the NBA at 38.8 mpg
I don't know why he gets a pass for this when any other young player on this team shooting 38% and 21% would be getting eviscerated instead of having every excuse made for it, that's the only reason I bring it up, it's a problem and we still aren't ready for that conversation yet
it's the same as last year. i think me and you were the only two who could admit he wasn't any good. everybody else was claiming he got robbed of being on the rookie team.
They shouldn't. A bunch of guards with suspect jumpshots or who are short (like Paul)Phish Tank wrote:
some of the other names in that list surprise me.