OMFKG! The Michael Kidd-Gilchrist Thread II

LofJ · Post #1761 » by **LofJ** » Tue Jan 13, 2015 1:54 am

Locking MKG up for $10 million a year would be seen as one of the best contracts in the league in a few years. I'd be ecstatic if we're able to extend him for that kind of money. And the awesome thing is that kind of extension is very realistic.

mrknowitall215 · Post #1762 » by **mrknowitall215** » Sat Jan 17, 2015 12:38 am

catch20two wrote:For the season we are ranked the 13th best defense.

Without Big Al over the past 7 games we are ranked the 4th best defense.

Without MKG when he was injured for almost a month we were the 27th ranked defense.

When MKG came back from injury from Dec 10th-Dec 30th when Big Al got injured we were the 9th best defense with MKG and Big Al.

With MKG and Big Al without Lance from Dec 19th-Dec 30th we are ranked the 4th best defense.

Just throwing this out there for the MKG haters that don't understand how valuable he is to our defense by giving us a lockdown defender whenever the opposing team has a guard or wing that can't be stopped.

Lance is nowhere near in the ball park of the type of defender MKG is. MKG can even make up for how terrible a defender Big Al is.

MKG is our defensive anchor and this shouldn't be questioned again. Be prepared to pay him close to 10mil per year in a extension going into next season. And this isn't no fluky numbers because our defense took a similar faltering hit last year when MKG was injured.

MKG almost single-handedly make us a top 5 defense.

Bump. I remember reading a article that backed these stats. Do you remember or have a link to the article that displayed these stats?

Liver_Pooty · Post #1763 » by **Liver_Pooty** » Sun Jan 18, 2015 12:09 am

Bonnell tweeted today that Clifford wants to extend MKGs minutes. Feels that he's emerging.

HornetJail · Post #1764 » by **HornetJail** » Sun Jan 18, 2015 12:13 am

Liver_Pooty wrote:Bonnell tweeted today that Clifford wants to extend MKGs minutes. Feels that he's emerging.

Wish he'd done that a year ago

catch20two · Post #1765 » by **catch20two** » Sun Jan 18, 2015 4:16 am

Liver_Pooty wrote:Bonnell tweeted today that Clifford wants to extend MKGs minutes. Feels that he's emerging.

KembaWalker · Post #1766 » by **KembaWalker** » Sun Jan 18, 2015 2:55 pm

Everytime it looks like Mike is about to turn the corner he gets injured. Hoping different this time.

mrknowitall215 · Post #1767 » by **mrknowitall215** » Tue Jan 20, 2015 8:11 pm

[tweet]http://twitter.com/HPbasketball/status/557624405988483073[/tweet]

The Hornets shouldn’t have a good defense. With Al Jefferson as a “rim protector” Charlotte breaks the mold of what we think of as an elite NBA defense. There is no big man ready to slide over and take away any driving ally. No shot blocker to turn away any seemingly open layup. Instead MKG changes everything by being one of, if not the, best wing defender in basketball.

http://hardwoodparoxysm.com/2015/01/20/ ... witterfeed

Flip Murray · Post #1768 » by **Flip Murray** » Tue Jan 20, 2015 8:15 pm

Liver_Pooty wrote:Bonnell tweeted today that Clifford wants to extend MKGs minutes. Feels that he's emerging.

now if we could just get him a reputation with the refs so they won't whistle him for every ticky tack touch foul

Post #1769 » by **JDR720** » Tue Jan 20, 2015 8:30 pm

He should make several All-NBA defense teams

ball teacher · Post #1770 » by **ball teacher** » Tue Jan 20, 2015 10:15 pm

I've said it before, we need to get a couple of plays for this guy around the rim late in games. He's not a closer like Harden or Durant but he's a very capable option who has Kemba like heart but most importantly, he energizes the team and the fans when he makes plays, it's almost like Dennis Rodman when he was a Piston or how Noah is in Chicago, the team feeds off of him. Until we realise this we wont reach our potential as a team.

mrknowitall215 · Post #1771 » by **mrknowitall215** » Thu Jan 22, 2015 6:49 pm

FUN FACT: The Charlotte Hornets are 7-1 in the 8 out of 29 games in which MKG played and received over 30 minutes of playing time

* 4 of those 8 games occurred in January

* In those 8 games, MKG averaged 12.1 points on 45% shooting, 10.9 rebounds, 2.5 assist, and has a offensive rating of 108 to a defensive rating of 95 for a net rating of +13.8 with him on the floor

Post #1772 » by **yosemiteben** » Thu Jan 22, 2015 6:59 pm

To be fair, most of those 8 games were against teams that were way below .500. With that said, I don't think anyone would dispute that he positively impacts our team when he's on the floor.

mrknowitall215 · Post #1773 » by **mrknowitall215** » Thu Jan 22, 2015 7:07 pm

yosemiteben wrote:To be fair, most of those 8 games were against teams that were way below .500. With that said, I don't think anyone would dispute that he positively impacts our team when he's on the floor.

No, to be fair at least 50% of the league is at or below .500 and we've loss our fair share of them (ORL 2x, IND, LAL, NYK, etc)

catch20two · Post #1774 » by **catch20two** » Thu Jan 22, 2015 7:28 pm

mrknowitall215 wrote:FUN FACT: The Charlotte Hornets are 7-1 in the 8 out of 29 games in which MKG played and received over 30 minutes of playing time

* 4 of those 8 games occurred in January

* In those 8 games, MKG averaged 12.1 points on 45% shooting, 10.9 rebounds, 2.5 assist, and has a offensive rating of 108 to a defensive rating of 95 for a net rating of +13.8 with him on the floor

MKG 4 MVP. MKG for more minutes. Let Clifford know.

Post #1775 » by **yosemiteben** » Thu Jan 22, 2015 7:41 pm

mrknowitall215 wrote:
yosemiteben wrote:To be fair, most of those 8 games were against teams that were way below .500. With that said, I don't think anyone would dispute that he positively impacts our team when he's on the floor.

No, to be fair at least 50% of the league is at or below .500 and we've loss our fair share of them (ORL 2x, IND, LAL, NYK, etc)

You can't act like the record isn't inflated because of playing lower level teams. PHI and MIN have an aggregate winning percentage of like 22%, and those wins against IND, TOR and MIN were played without their best player(s).

BigSlam summed it up in the tank thread...we have just finished up a run of playing teams that have terrible records and/or major players sitting out injured. I'm as big a cheerleader as any (I mean look at my avy), but some perspective is in order too.

HornetJail · Post #1776 » by **HornetJail** » Thu Jan 22, 2015 7:41 pm

catch20two wrote:
mrknowitall215 wrote:FUN FACT: The Charlotte Hornets are 7-1 in the 8 out of 29 games in which MKG played and received over 30 minutes of playing time

* 4 of those 8 games occurred in January

* In those 8 games, MKG averaged 12.1 points on 45% shooting, 10.9 rebounds, 2.5 assist, and has a offensive rating of 108 to a defensive rating of 95 for a net rating of +13.8 with him on the floor

MKG 4 MVP. MKG for more minutes. Let Clifford know.

while i agree 100% with you, Clifford also only plays him 30min+ when MKG is playing really really well

mrknowitall215 · Post #1777 » by **mrknowitall215** » Thu Jan 22, 2015 7:55 pm

yosemiteben wrote:
mrknowitall215 wrote:
yosemiteben wrote:To be fair, most of those 8 games were against teams that were way below .500. With that said, I don't think anyone would dispute that he positively impacts our team when he's on the floor.

No, to be fair at least 50% of the league is at or below .500 and we've loss our fair share of them (ORL 2x, IND, LAL, NYK, etc)

You can't act like the record isn't inflated because of playing lower level teams. PHI and MIN have an aggregate winning percentage of like 22%, and those wins against IND, TOR and MIN were played without their best player(s).

BigSlam summed it up in the tank thread...we have just finished up a run of playing teams that have terrible records and/or major players sitting out injured. I'm as big a cheerleader as any (I mean look at my avy), but some perspective is in order too.

Okay, 3 of the 8 games were against teams with at least a .500 winning record

mrknowitall215 · Post #1778 » by **mrknowitall215** » Thu Jan 22, 2015 7:56 pm

BizGilwalker wrote:
catch20two wrote:
mrknowitall215 wrote:FUN FACT: The Charlotte Hornets are 7-1 in the 8 out of 29 games in which MKG played and received over 30 minutes of playing time

* 4 of those 8 games occurred in January

* In those 8 games, MKG averaged 12.1 points on 45% shooting, 10.9 rebounds, 2.5 assist, and has a offensive rating of 108 to a defensive rating of 95 for a net rating of +13.8 with him on the floor

MKG 4 MVP. MKG for more minutes. Let Clifford know.
while i agree 100% with you, Clifford also only plays him 30min+ when MKG is playing really really well

True, but in the same vein let's not discount the games in which MKG was playing well and we've all wondered why Clifford didn't play him more

Post #1779 » by **yosemiteben** » Thu Jan 22, 2015 8:04 pm

Again, I'm not disagreeing that when MKG gets minutes he generally is productive. However, saying we're 8-1 when he gets 30+ minutes is a little misleading.

mrknowitall215 · Post #1780 » by **mrknowitall215** » Thu Jan 22, 2015 8:21 pm

yosemiteben wrote:Again, I'm not disagreeing that when MKG gets minutes he generally is productive. However, saying we're 8-1 when he gets 30+ minutes is a little misleading.

We're 7-1 when he get 30+ minutes, not 8-1

50% of the league is below .500. With that said, 3 of those 8 were against teams above .500, so if we win the next game with MKG playing over 30 minutes against a team over .500 would it be a fair assessment?