lilfishi22 wrote:Revived wrote:lilfishi22 wrote:You talk about watching box scores and then bring up Lee's 3P% which was essentially carried by his early season shooting. The guy was a few % points above league average since the start of the new year and he does nothing but shoot out there. He can't handle the ball and his defense is sub par. We need guys with more versatility.
My argument is that Shamet is just as bad at both of those things as Lee is. Except 3pt shooting wise, even at the lower % since the beginning of the new year he’s still much better than Shamet. Maybe defensively he’s slightly better than Lee but that’s it. And even then it’s not a big difference because yesterday every single minute that Shamet was on the court, Clippers were trying to have his guy set a screen for Kawhi or Westbrook to get Shamet guarding one of them because he’s the worst defender on the court. And I wasn’t accusing you of only boxscore watching btw, I was simply asking…I don’t watch every single game and sometimes just go by the box score myself. Not an insult.
I think we both agree Shamet minutes should be greatly reduced, preferably to low single digits if at all. What I've been saying is that Okogie does everything Shamet does currently so it doesn't make sense to have Shamet in there at all if he's not even shooting the ball much or at a high clip. I just don't think Lee should get minutes because he just doesn't do enough outside of shoot.
I rewatched Game 2 and actually thought Shamet didn't look completely lost out there and provided some level of competency. While I wish he could maybe score a handful of buckets a game I am not going to blast him for his performance in Game 2 as I saw a few solid defensive plays from him. I will agree though that I think Okogie could do a much better job, since he at least hit a three in Game 2. Additionally, he can attack the paint and draw fouls which is something not many of the Suns players are capable of doing.
