Leap Year - The Kemba Walker Thread III

Eoghan · Post #61 » by **Eoghan** » Tue Mar 17, 2015 9:30 pm

I expected the rusty shooting but my patience is wearing thin in regards to him being productive when his shot isn't falling. Lance has basically jumpshot cancer and he still does a better job getting teammates involved it seems.

Liver_Pooty · Post #62 » by **Liver_Pooty** » Tue Mar 17, 2015 10:58 pm

BrotherDave wrote:I expected the rusty shooting but my patience is wearing thin in regards to him being productive when his shot isn't falling. Lance has basically jumpshot cancer and he still does a better job getting teammates involved it seems.

Agreed.

Post #63 » by **JDR720** » Tue Mar 17, 2015 11:26 pm

I have said it before, but his problem is taking way too many jumpshots.

FG% by distance

0-3 feet: 50.8%
3-10 feet: 38.8%
10-16 feet: 30.6%
16 feet to 3pt: 41%
3pt: 32%

% of FGA by Distance

0-3 feet: 25.4% of total shots
3-10: 11.7% of total shots
10-16: 13.5%
16ft to 3: 19.8%
3pt": 29.6%

Hornet Mania · Post #64 » by **Hornet Mania** » Wed Mar 18, 2015 12:00 am

That 3-10 ft figure is just horrific. Kemba needs to add a respectable floater to his game for the times when he's stuck in that 3-10 feet no-man's land and the big has already cut off his driving lane. Lock him in a room and make him watch Tony Parker tapes Clockwork Orange-style if that's what it takes.

HornetJail · Post #65 » by **HornetJail** » Wed Mar 18, 2015 12:18 am

Hornet Mania wrote:That 3-10 ft figure is just horrific. Kemba needs to add a respectable floater to his game for the times when he's stuck in that 3-10 feet no-man's land and the big has already cut off his driving lane. Lock him in a room and make him watch Tony Parker tapes Clockwork Orange-style if that's what it takes.

Hell, Brian Roberts could teach him a thing or two about that

Post #66 » by **JDR720** » Wed Mar 18, 2015 12:36 am

speaking of brian, here are his shot %'s

0-3: 51.2%
3-10:48.4%
10-16: 40%
16-3pt: 43.9%
3pt: 30.7%

:nonono:

Post #67 » by **fatlever** » Wed Mar 18, 2015 1:28 am

Rick Bonnell ‏@rick_bonnell 4m4 minutes ago
Asked when Kemba Walker might start again, Steve Clifford said, "Obviously he's rusty. He was out six weeks."

Liver_Pooty · Post #68 » by **Liver_Pooty** » Wed Mar 18, 2015 1:33 am

fatlever wrote:Rick Bonnell ‏@rick_bonnell 4m4 minutes ago
Asked when Kemba Walker might start again, Steve Clifford said, "Obviously he's rusty. He was out six weeks."

Interesting...

Liver_Pooty · Post #69 » by **Liver_Pooty** » Wed Mar 18, 2015 2:26 am

[tweet]https://twitter.com/rick_bonnell/status/578007364130856960[/tweet]

Lol so Walker may not start for the rest of the year unless his shooting picks up.

catch20two · Post #70 » by **catch20two** » Wed Mar 18, 2015 3:40 am

Kemba becoming a 6th man before our very eyes. I hope not but the way Cliff is bringing him back from the injury that's what it's looking like. Any normal starter and team captain wouldn't have came off the bench more than once after returning from injury even if he was rusty.

Al Kidd-Walker · Post #71 » by **Al Kidd-Walker** » Wed Mar 18, 2015 4:33 am

catch20two wrote:Kemba becoming a 6th man before our very eyes. I hope not but the way Cliff is bringing him back from the injury that's what it's looking like. Any normal starter and team captain wouldn't have came off the bench more than once after returning from injury even if he was rusty.

Coach Clifford brehs

Braggins · Post #72 » by **Braggins** » Wed Mar 18, 2015 9:07 am

Kemba is rusty unlike Al. Al has basically dominated when returning from injury. Hes totally earned his 35mpg starting status...

Seriously though, Clifford is acting desperate. I hope this is a sign he knows that he is getting fired if we don't make the playoffs (which hopefully is the case if he is on the hot seat). He clearly seems clueless and just looking for a hot hand by one of our players to save him. It has basically been the story all season. Gary Neal had a hot start, so when things started to fall apart he just let him run wild, hoping that he would get hot and make up for him having no clue what else to do, until management was literally forced to trade Neal. Mo had that hot streak that kept us in the playoff hunt and now Cliff has no idea what to do except just let Mo chuck away and hope the heat comes back, so Kemba is going to be relegated to a lesser role unless he gets the hot hand. The only constant in all of this is Jefferson sucking it up all over the court with no leash at all, making everything harder on everyone else. I hope Clifford completely loses the team and we fall apart so that we can actually look for a serious coach. Clifford is a joke and I'm absolutely sick of it. I'm getting to the point where I might stop following this team if a change isn't made.

Post #73 » by **yosemiteben** » Wed Mar 18, 2015 2:01 pm

You really need to slow your roll. He's going no where after this season.

Post #74 » by **yosemiteben** » Wed Mar 18, 2015 4:13 pm

Braggins wrote:Kemba is rusty unlike Al. Al has basically dominated when returning from injury. Hes totally earned his 35mpg starting status...

I think he has played very well recently, and I legitimately don't understand why you are acting like he doesn't deserve PT. In the month of March he's averaging 17 ppg on 50% FG% (51.7% TS%) with 8.6 rpg. I think his defense has been fine, our problems on defense lately have been perimeter shooting that have not been his responsibility.

BeesWax · Post #75 » by **BeesWax** » Wed Mar 18, 2015 4:35 pm

yosemiteben wrote:
Braggins wrote:Kemba is rusty unlike Al. Al has basically dominated when returning from injury. Hes totally earned his 35mpg starting status...

I think he has played very well recently, and I legitimately don't understand why you are acting like he doesn't deserve PT. In the month of March he's averaging 17 ppg on 50% FG% (51.7% TS%) with 8.6 rpg. I think his defense has been fine, our problems on defense lately have been perimeter shooting that have not been his responsibility.

Some of it has been Al because of the help defense our perimeter guys are having to play. He has been slow to rotate lately causing other guys to cover for him which gives up open threes.

Post #76 » by **yosemiteben** » Wed Mar 18, 2015 4:40 pm

jdm3 wrote:
yosemiteben wrote:
Braggins wrote:Kemba is rusty unlike Al. Al has basically dominated when returning from injury. Hes totally earned his 35mpg starting status...

I think he has played very well recently, and I legitimately don't understand why you are acting like he doesn't deserve PT. In the month of March he's averaging 17 ppg on 50% FG% (51.7% TS%) with 8.6 rpg. I think his defense has been fine, our problems on defense lately have been perimeter shooting that have not been his responsibility.

Some of it has been Al because of the help defense our perimeter guys are having to play. He has been slow to rotate lately causing other guys to cover for him which gives up open threes.

I think his rotations have been fine and I strongly disagree that he is the reason that we have been giving up perimeter shots. I think that's a major stretch.

Do you have specific examples from the past couple games? I've watched both the next day when I already knew what happened so focused a lot on our defense, and I honestly feel like Al has not been the problem at all.

BeesWax · Post #77 » by **BeesWax** » Wed Mar 18, 2015 4:45 pm

yosemiteben wrote:
jdm3 wrote:
yosemiteben wrote:I think he has played very well recently, and I legitimately don't understand why you are acting like he doesn't deserve PT. In the month of March he's averaging 17 ppg on 50% FG% (51.7% TS%) with 8.6 rpg. I think his defense has been fine, our problems on defense lately have been perimeter shooting that have not been his responsibility.

Some of it has been Al because of the help defense our perimeter guys are having to play. He has been slow to rotate lately causing other guys to cover for him which gives up open threes.

I think his rotations have been fine and I strongly disagree that he is the reason that we have been giving up perimeter shots. I think that's a major stretch.

Do you have specific examples from the past couple games? I've watched both the next day when I already knew what happened so focused a lot on our defense, and I honestly feel like Al has not been the problem at all.

Everyone has the right to their own opinions but a number of those open shots to start the Utah game were people crashing down to help Al. He is slow and disinterested down there. If there is a pick on a play we have to use 4 guys to cover 5 because Al is to weak minded or lazy to move around and play help defense. He is a major problem right now. He seemed like he had turned the corner but I guess the Biz injury gave him an excuse to try less since nobody was nipping at his heels.

Post #78 » by **yosemiteben** » Wed Mar 18, 2015 4:48 pm

Helping Al on Gobert? Helping Al on DJ? I just don't buy it.

I appreciate you have a different opinion and maybe I'm wrong, but what you are describing is not what I am seeing.

BeesWax · Post #79 » by **BeesWax** » Wed Mar 18, 2015 4:55 pm

It was what was happening. They would set a screen and it would send our entire defense into scramble mode because Al would not move. This results in wide open shots. There is more to helping than just helping on the C. Al never helped on ANYTHING and therefore everyone else had to cover way more space to make up for his ineptitude. It was what happened because I screamed at the TV multiple times for Clifford to pull Al and yell at him for screwing the rest of his teammates over.

Post #80 » by **fatlever** » Wed Mar 18, 2015 5:19 pm

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