Duffman100 wrote:Los_29 wrote:Johnny Bball wrote:
Needs an entire season to prove you wrong, but you managed to form a really **** opinion in two weeks from the hop. At least you added "very", since you started by calling him a waste right after the trade.
I’m not going to lie, that made me chuckle as well. 27 games playing with G-Leaguers was enough to declare Ochai as a scrub who will be playing in China. After 20 games of excellent play, he needs to see it for a full year.
It's such a strange psychological phenomenon on this board.
People would rather rush to be pessimistic and doom and gloom and need so much more evidence to be positive and optimistic.
Literally. It’s the thing I hate about this board the most. Everyone is a finished product before they even hit their prime, sample sizes where the player plays badly is who they are but sample sizes where they play well is an aberration, anything negative is likely to continue and anything positive is unlikely. Everyone who is a pessimist is a realist and everyone who is an optimist and chooses to give these young players time/grace and have patience is living in delusion.
Context and nuance is never used when trying to understand or explain why a player may be playing badly for a stretch. Such as RJ going back to his New York efficiency when he’s asked to be the number 1 guy (which we know he isn’t) and moves up in the pecking order, but when Scottie is playing his TS is 57%. Can only imagine what it would be when two of our best shooters come back and give him even more space to operate. Oh and let’s not even talk about his much improved playmaking in the pick and roll, but hey that’s not what people wanted him to improve on or what they want to talk about so it’s ignored and it’s stated that he hasn’t improved at all when he has. Anyway let me not make this an RJ thread, I’m so tired of that whole argument.
I love the positive posters on here who have patience and give these young players grace. Especially because I find most of you aren’t extreme, have a very realistic level of optimism and make great points. These players are all still many years from their prime and none of us know what any of them will be when they get there. If they all continue to make incremental improvements year after year many of them can be really good players by then. Ochai being one of them.
I’m glad he was able to remind people that summer league means absolutely nothing and judging players off their play there, especially when they’re a player who cannot create for themselves and need good players around them, is probably not the smartest thing to do. I hope we all learn from this. Doubt it, but I can hope.
