TGW wrote:TheBlackCzar wrote:nate33 wrote:Generally speaking, teams want all their players to be able to play good defense, but you can overlook poor defense from a guy who is carrying your offense. Poole was carrying our offense. He posted 25 points per 36 minutes on a TS% of .591 for a team whose remaining teammates posted a TS% of .538.
Think about that for a minute. That's actually pretty damn good offensive production! He carried a USG% of 29% and posted a shooting efficiency 5.3 percentage points higher than the rest of the team!
If Whitmore could score like that, then maybe we could overlook his bad D too. But I seriously doubt he can score like that.
Damn thank you, listening to all this trade Poole **** is crazy.... Dude literally carried our team to multiple wins by himself... He ended 16 game losing streaks and all he gets is flack.... Damn he played better last year then he did when he was a champion.... Plus dude really is a positive influence on top of being our best scorer, so I'm like wtf are we trying to rush him out the door.....
It’s cause he’s TRASH. Just because that bozo happened to make some of the garbage shots he takes out of the flow of the offense doesn’t make him remotely good. Just go to any other teams board and get their opinion on Poole. He is one of the most unwanted, disliked players in the league. Only the most biased homer would argue that Poole is a commodity.
Dude is a certified clown.
The flow of what offense... We didn't have no real offensive setup last year.... What were you watching... We let our youngings run free tossing up whatever shot they wanted until they started forming more of a role later in the season as they improved there play... Without Poole's scoring in some of our games we'd have not even scored 90 points.... I don't care what other fans opinions are outside of GS.... If he didn't play for your team I'm not too concerned about your opinion.....
Trash, clown, bozo.... You sound really in your feelings... You need to think about how you're addressing young men who positively impacting people out here.... I didn't like Poole before he came here, mainly because I didn't know who or how he was.... My original uninformed opinion pre-Wizards was this dude was a loud mouth pretty boy who was jive like a sucka that got knocked out...... But my opinion changed over time when I realized he's a solid dude (Draymond was on some sucka moves) and I was completely presumptuous and incorrect in my assessment of him... Poole's the most encouraging dude on the team, and the disrespect he gets is ridiculous, considering how much time he puts into DC...... These descriptions you are giving ain't it.... You can say he needs to work on his game and play harder on D, or try to play more like a PG even though he's not PG by nature he's a 2.... That's cool but you jive going to far with the names you labeling on ole boy....
Repeat after me... GS doesn't win a 4th title without Jordan Poole's contributions.....Ok so the fact that this past season was better than the season that got him this $35m/yr deal he has now, while having no other consistent scorer doesn't mean anything especially since he didn't have Steph, Klay and Dray to help get him open looks...... All ya'll stat geeks have no clue what it takes to score 20+ppg in the NBA as the #1 option... You'll tell me how many guys did it, and it'll just prove my point even further so save the lookups (Not even 8% of the NBA)......
Now my thoughts on Poole as a player is he's very streaky, can shoot you into a game or shoot you out, depending on the night, he's inconsistent as a defender, however he improved his effort and capability considerably this year and could get even better with less of a scoring load....
He doesn't have an elite first step but his ball handling is exceptional and he has seemingly too many moves as I think he overcomplicates things sometimes, instead of making a move and going... His lack of elite explosiveness kind of works against him defensively, but he has quick hands and with more experience around better defenders could continue improving... I think he's best as a 6th man for quick offense off the bench and that will ultimately be his role on this team.....
). Have Sarr as your starting C, a healthy dose of Poole and Kispert... and the floor can drop under the defense. Make sure you play AJ, and our two new FRPs and Bob's your uncle - back in the lottery and shooting for a record of 25 wins or less and a bottom 8 after the ping pong balls have settled into their slots.
