HotelVitale wrote:rzzzzz wrote:he played well against Duncan on 11/14, but his best game, by far, was when he took KAT apart on 11/23. even though his performance dropped right after that, when the reports broke (he finally apologized on 11/29), November was his best statistical month, at least going by points AND rebounds. though, yes, his points were up (thanks Ish) the first couple weeks of February, before he went down. http://www.espn.com/nba/player/gamelog/_/id/3135048/year/2016/jahlil-okaforHotelVitale wrote: You're remembering that wrong. He was playing pretty terrible at the time of the Boston punch and his best stretch by far was after Ish arrived (round Christmas) and before he went down for the season.
Hard to believe that you don't remember how bad he was playing during that time, we talked it to death on these boards (the team was unbelievably awful the month before Ish came to town, and Okafor was a big part). Check out his splits to see why: https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/o/okafoja01/splits/2016
Basically, in November he was playing big minutes (33 per night) and was getting his 17.4 ppg on absurdly bad efficiency (48% TS) and a dreadful asst:TO (about 1:2). After Ish came around, his minutes dropped to about 27ppg but he still scored 17ppg and he started scoring much much ore efficiently (60% TS)--going from league worst to way above average--and he cut his TOs down too. He became a very useful offensive player or those couple months.
It's why I was extremely high on him after his rookie year. He was firing on all cylinders before his injury his defense was even starting to come along.
But then last year happened and it's impossible to have selective amnesia. It may have just been a couple of hot months it sometimes happens with players I remember Mike James going through a year with the Raptors like that as did Micheal Carter-Williams his rookie year.
