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TheKingofSting wrote:I don't really like him coming off of the bench but nothing with Clifford surprises me anymore.
TheKingofSting wrote:You can still have minutes monitored and start.
Balllin wrote:Zion Williamson is 6-5, with a 6-10 wingspan. I see him as a slightly better Kenneth Faried.
TheKingofSting wrote:I don't really like him coming off of the bench but nothing with Clifford surprises me anymore.
ball teacher wrote:TheKingofSting wrote:I don't really like him coming off of the bench but nothing with Clifford surprises me anymore.
Cliff is saying that the two or three weeks MKG has missed has the 21 year old so out of shape that he cant start? Again, if he's not "healthy" enough to start, dont play him period! Your telling him he's good enough to play but he's not good enough to start, well why is he playing at all if he's not himself? This isnt about preserving MKG, this is a experiment to see how he looks coming off the bench.
It appears the Charlotte Hornets are getting back their best defensive player after small forward Michael Kidd-Gilchrist missed the past dozen games with a stress reaction in his right foot.
Kidd-Gilchrist was cleared to practice Tuesday and, barring a setback, will play in Wednesday’s home game against the Boston Celtics.
“It felt good. I’m just happy to be back on the floor,” he said after practice. “I’m excited for tomorrow. I can’t wait.”
Kidd-Gilchrist was diagnosed with a stress reaction Nov. 13, the day before a road game against the Phoenix Suns. A magnetic resonance imaging revealed the condition, a precursor for a stress fracture.
Had the reaction become a fracture, he would have missed six to eight weeks, so the team was careful with his treatment. Just recently he was cleared to jump.
The Hornets went 2-10 in his absence. Over the past two seasons the Bobcats/Hornets are 10-22 when Kidd-Gilchrist doesn’t play.
Coach Steve Clifford said Kidd-Gilchrist gave every indication in practice that’s he’s well and ready to play again.
“He had a ton of energy and played really, really well,” Clifford said. “As long as he’s not too sore (he’ll play) – to me, he looks like he’ll be fine.”
Clifford said he would initially use Kidd-Gilchrist as a reserve behind Lance Stephenson and Gerald Henderson, rather than immediately move him back into the starting lineup. That relates to the conditioning Kidd-Gilchrist lost in the 3 1/2 weeks he couldn’t practice.
“By the nature of his injury, he wasn’t able to do a ton of conditioning, so I really don’t have a feel for how many minutes he can play,” Clifford said.
Kidd-Gilchrist was mostly limited to workouts in a swimming pool to protect his foot.
“I trust coach and what he’s doing with this team,” he said of initially coming off the bench. “I’m just glad to be getting the opportunity to play ball again. I’d mostly been in the pool – that’s about it.”
Kidd-Gilchrist, averaging 9.8 points and 5.5 rebounds, can obviously offer a boost to a team that has started 5-15.
“He brings an energy level and an intelligence,” Clifford said. “He handles the ball (in the fast break), which allows us to play quicker. And just his competitiveness – that’s really at this stage his exceptional trait.”
Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2014/1 ... IhnSNLF-cU#storylink=cpy
LamarMatic7 wrote:ball teacher wrote:TheKingofSting wrote:I don't really like him coming off of the bench but nothing with Clifford surprises me anymore.
Cliff is saying that the two or three weeks MKG has missed has the 21 year old so out of shape that he cant start? Again, if he's not "healthy" enough to start, dont play him period! Your telling him he's good enough to play but he's not good enough to start, well why is he playing at all if he's not himself? This isnt about preserving MKG, this is a experiment to see how he looks coming off the bench.
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ball teacher wrote:If MKG is healthy and ready to play he shouldnt be benched, his minutes should just be monitored more than they already were before the injury.
fatlever wrote:memphis won't give MKG the cracks to get to the rim like boston did, nor will then give up the fast break points. he'll need to show off that jumper friday. we need to see it wasnt a fluke.
LamarMatic7 wrote:fatlever wrote:memphis won't give MKG the cracks to get to the rim like boston did, nor will then give up the fast break points. he'll need to show off that jumper friday. we need to see it wasnt a fluke.
MKG definitely needs to use the same mindset he had against Green if he's being sagged off to such an extreme degree - use that free space to gain momentum and attack that guy full head of steam.
A little trickery at the end of that drive would be nice as well to avoid those potential charge calls (last night it seemingly shouldn't have gone Green's way, but still... MKG was out of control on that drive and kind of deserved for that to happen)
yosemiteben wrote:LamarMatic7 wrote:fatlever wrote:memphis won't give MKG the cracks to get to the rim like boston did, nor will then give up the fast break points. he'll need to show off that jumper friday. we need to see it wasnt a fluke.
MKG definitely needs to use the same mindset he had against Green if he's being sagged off to such an extreme degree - use that free space to gain momentum and attack that guy full head of steam.
A little trickery at the end of that drive would be nice as well to avoid those potential charge calls (last night it seemingly shouldn't have gone Green's way, but still... MKG was out of control on that drive and kind of deserved for that to happen)
I dunno dude, Green was no where close to being in the right position, that was a terrible call. Should have been two points and a FT. I thought MKG actually was really smart attacking on that drive when his defender was out of position.