Paydro70 wrote:...Emeka plays the 4th most minutes of any center, more than Yao, Nene, Camby, Horford, Biedrins... if he played 36 minutes, he'd be scoring 15 points, and very few bigs play a lot more than that. Even if he played 40mpg, he'd still only be at 16.8.
It's not easy at all to learn to shoot free throws or midrange jumpers as a big man. If it were, every player would do it. Do you think Shaq and Dwight Howard just don't put the minutes in? There's an element of natural skill involved that Emeka, like those players, lacks and will likely always lack. It's not realistic at all to just tell him to start shooting like Amare, he does not have that in him.
It's really not that hard to see why he is limited (though by no means bad) on offense... to score a lot of points as a big man in the NBA, you either need to be huge (Yao, Shaq), super athletic (Dwight Howard, Nene), or have a way to score outside of 5 feet (Al Jefferson, most of the great PFs). If you're not big enough to push people, fast enough to fly by them or jump over them, or skilled enough to range out or hit turnarounds, you're not going to be an elite offensive player.
Anyway I could certainly see him stepping up to 16ppg, but probably only if we increased our pace or he had a flukish year at the free throw line.
I knew somebody would say something like that. Even if he can't perfect the jumper he is really a pf playing C. He's not a 7 foot stiff or anything and he should be able to use his quickness.
He could average 20 points no problem if he made 1 of the changes I said and you don't need to work on the offseason to do this and that is be more aggressive. If he woud call for the ball more and take lets say 5-6 more attempts per game which is 1.5 attempts per quarter he would average 6 more points and would be a 20 points a game scorer.