OMFKG! The Michael Kidd-Gilchrist Thread II

[JDR720]

if we end up releasing CDR when the other SF"s get healthy im gonna be mad

[mrknowitall215]

if we end up releasing CDR when the other SF"s get healthy im gonna be mad

CDR's spot as the 15th man on the roster is sealed from now to even after MKG return from injury. That's the reason why James Southerland was waived

[catch20two]

New Bobcat's advice Michael Kidd-Gilchrist: ‘Man up’

Charlotte Bobcats forward Michael Kidd-Gilchrist invited an old friend to his home Tuesday for dinner and a chat. The friend – a mentor, really – offered lots of advice, which Kidd-Gilchrist summed up this way:

“He told me to ‘man up,’” Kidd-Gilchrist recalled.

The old friend is also a new teammate – Chris Douglas-Roberts. The Bobcats signed small forward Douglas-Roberts out of the NBA Development League as an injury fill-in, in part because of Kidd-Gilchrist’s broken left hand. Kidd-Gilchrist couldn’t be happier about the selection.

“It’s so good to have him here, a dream-come-true for me and him to be on the same team,” Kidd-Gilchrist said Thursday. “I never would have thought that in a million years. He’s my favorite player.”

So much so that Kidd-Gilchrist started wearing jersey No. 14 because that’s the number Douglas-Roberts wore in college as a Memphis Tiger. Kidd-Gilchrist ended up playing for Douglas-Roberts’ college coach, John Calipari, after Calipari moved from Memphis to Kentucky.

Kidd-Gilchrist grew up loving the way Douglas-Roberts played, but this is about more than that. It’s about a big-deal-college-player-turned-pro finding time for a teenager. Kidd-Gilchrist was in middle school in New Jersey when one of his uncles introduced him to Douglas-Roberts.

Their friendship blossomed to thepoint that Kidd-Gilchrist would sometimes hang out at Douglas-Roberts’ home after school, when Douglas-Roberts was a New Jersey Net.

“Really, he was like my brother,” Kidd-Gilchrist said.

Douglas-Roberts said the things that struck him about Kidd-Gilchrist, even in the eighth grade, were how hard he worked and how receptive he was to feedback.

“He’s always been a student of the game since he was a little kid,” Douglas-Roberts said. “(But) one thing you can’t prepare for is the business of this. I tell him, ‘You’re a basketball player – a good basketball player. Just have a thicker skin.’”

Douglas-Roberts says growing up in inner-city Detroit made him mentally tough. He’s needed to be, because the NBA didn’t come nearly as easily to him as some expected.

A top recruit out of high school, Douglas-Roberts lasted to the 40th pick when the Nets chose him in 2008. He played two seasons in New Jersey, then parts of two seasons with the Milwaukee Bucks and Dallas Mavericks. In-between those gigs, he played in Italy.

Lately he’s played in the D-League, averaging 18.7 points for the Texas Legends. The D-League is very different from the charter flights and five-star hotels in the NBA. Sometimes he was on buses, riding from town to town on a game day, so the team could avoid a hotel bill.

Douglas-Roberts was fine with that because he wanted one more chance, the one the Bobcats offered Tuesday.

“Nothing bothers me,” Douglas-Roberts said. “I’m just here to play basketball.”

That’s the message he delivered Tuesday night to Kidd-Gilchrist, the protégé he calls “little cousin.”

“I told him you have to embrace all the pressure (of being the No. 2 overall pick). Never shy away from it,” Douglas-Roberts said. “You want people criticizing you. You want the media talking about you, positively or negatively.”

Message received:

“I have no excuses these days,” Kidd-Gilchrist said. “He told me adversity makes men. All these up-and-downs, they aren’t really ups-and-downs. They’re just how I think of it.”

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/1 ... qpAFtJDuSo

CDR might very well end up being the driving force as a mentor that push MKG from playing like a glorified role player into a up & coming star

Bonnell puttin' in work lately. Another good piece. MKG's confidence is gonna go through the roof with CDR on board as a big brother/mentor figure. I think he's gonna average like 15 points over the month of January when he come back.

[LamarMatic7]

I was behind on my footage cutting so this comes a bit late:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw23arEGJ58[/youtube]

[Elden Payton]

Surprisingly productive defenders by Henry Abbott
ESPN.com

Michael Kidd-Gilchrist

It's a closely guarded secret that the Bobcats are good at something, but today their defense is fourth best in the league, just after the Bulls and just ahead of the Heat and Thunder. But line up the NBA's best defensive player combinations in terms of points allowed per possession, and Kidd-Gilchrist's long and noticeable name is all over the place. There are three four-man Bobcats lineups with MKG that play better defense than the best four-man combination of Indiana Pacers. If you rank the whole league's best two-man defensive combinations, the top five pairs are all Pacers -- except for Kidd-Gilchrist and Gerald Henderson, who are third in the whole NBA in that ranking.

Kidd-Gilchrist, who is out with a broken finger at the moment, has played nearly 500 minutes this season, during which time the Bobcats have basically been the Pacers, with a 94.8 points per 100 possessions. When he's on the bench, they give up more than 100.

http://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/post/_ ... -defenders

great to see his defense getting recognized. more articles like this and refs wont be so quick to call fouls on him. the stats are finally backing up what our eyeballs have been seeing. MKGs on/off stats have been absurd sine day one, yet goes unnoticed by those who still talk about him as a bust.

MKG is the difference between having Indy's defense and Utah's defense.

It sucks because if he was averaging 16/4/2 and played matador defense he'd be considered a future star.

9/6/2/1/1 with elite perimiter and post defense equals bust?

It shows the direction of the game where entertainment surpasses the fundamentals of the game.

[Liver_Pooty]

Beginning to think that we signed CDR as someone who can tell MKG without getting his feelings hurt to "stop listening to outsiders, suck it up, and freaking play"

That and hes better than James Southerland.

[catch20two]

Beyond the fact that he's injured and not on the floor the other thing that I hate about this MKG injury is that it's going to give some gun jumping people the false sense that we're a better team without him.

[catch20two]

We're not trading MKG. We're 1-4 without him.

[Benjamin Linus]

We're actually 3-3 without MKG this season. I know this because my friend abhors MKG and was yapping nonstop by the fact that we were 3-0 without him at the time and how much better he thought our offense was producing.

But I agree. I don't see them trading MKG or even Biz for that matter. I think Cho is too attached to his draft selections to send them off this early, unless it's for one hell of a deal.

[mrknowitall215]

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[catch20two]

Speedy recovery MKG.

[MKGsMotor]

I'm going to be mad if we trade MKG, and pissed if we trade MKG and get not that much in return ala thomas robinson and derrick williams. This kid is a difference maker on the court and is held back by **** rotations and a jump shot. He's twenty years old. ****.

[Liver_Pooty]

I'm going to be mad if we trade MKG, and pissed if we trade MKG and get not that much in return ala thomas robinson and derrick williams. This kid is a difference maker on the court and is held back by **** rotations and a jump shot. He's twenty years old. ****.

Would have been a real possibility if Taylor stepped up and played well in his absence, which hes been OK, but pretty average.

I don't see it happening at all.

[Knighthonor]

I am curious, if you all think he was worth his location in the draft.

[Liver_Pooty]

I am curious, if you all think he was worth his location in the draft.

Right now no. Check back in 2 years.

[mrknowitall215]

I am curious, if you all think he was worth his location in the draft.

I'm going to say "yes". He's essentially a lock down defender that specializes at defending the primary positions, SG/SF, that the most elite scorers in the NBA play. That's almost invaluable in itself. Some should view his limited minutes & lesser role in the offense as a part of slowly grooming him to be a productive NBA player. He's only just turned 20 years old a few months ago

[ball teacher]

Kind of saw this coming

Bobcats Could Make Kidd-Gilchrist Available In Trade Talks
Michael Kidd-Gilchrist could be made available in trade talks by the Charlotte Bobcats when he returns from injury.

Kidd-Gilchrist was the second overall pick of the 2012 NBA Draft out of Kentucky.

Kidd-Gilchrist has struggled to develop his jumper to make a strong impact in the NBA.

Via Chad Ford/ESPN

I'm just curious to know if this is because he doesnt fit Clifford's system, or if they see him as injury prone/

[mrknowitall215]

Bobcats Could Make Kidd-Gilchrist Available In Trade Talks

Am I the only person that comprehend the emphasized 'could' in this rumor? Based on the way that it's worded, it's only conjecture

[BlackOutBuzz]

Like I said before, it's pretty much a non-story that's only being talked about because the only trade news lately involves the superstar known as Omer Asik. The pundits seem bored. I mean, the Thunder "could" make Westbrook available, doesn't mean they would.

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[ball teacher]

Bobcats Could Make Kidd-Gilchrist Available In Trade Talks

Am I the only person that comprehend the emphasized 'could' in this rumor? Based on the way that it's worded, it's only conjecture

I comprehend the conjecture that MKG COULD be traded. I've said weeks ago that based on the way Clifford uses MKG that he COULD be traded away which is why I said "Kinda saw this coming". And for the record, traditionally, you dont make it known that your willing to trade away a certain player unless you really dont mind trading away that specific player. I just asked why, is he now on the block, is it because he's perceived as injury prone, or because Clifford doesnt value what he brings to the team. I think it's clear that since Clifford came aboard, he wasnt impressed with MKG's game and that he's really done his best to limit his role on the team, at least offensively.