Jiipee84 wrote:
Lauri absolutely has one and exteremely infuriating bad habit to disappear after when he's played one or several good games.
Especially when Lauri is hot he plays like Dirk but when he's exhausted and tired he plays like some freaking G league bench scrub.
Those 10-19 point games are trash if Lauri's serious goal truly is a allstar game.
As a player and shooter Lauri cannot be so depend on that does Conley play or not.
And seriously said Lauri's whole game cannot being up to missing one player
but this can be said whole Jazz team not only Lauri.
Right now it looks truly that Jazz surprising good start in October and early November was lucky fluke.
And it happend only because other teams seriously underestimated Jazz and Conley was running offensive game.
Now when Conley is out Jazz games are going downhill and losing streak is more a rule than exception to the rule. Jazz honeymoon is coming to end and it is matter of the time when serious tanking will start.
In the last five consecutive games Conley has been out, counting Conley's 9 min game as an OUT, Markkanen is averaging 20 ppg on 15.4 fga with 8.8 rebs, 2.8 orebs, 2 ast, 2.8 tovs and team high plus 4.6. That is still pretty good and well above his past season averages. Prior to Conley going out, Markkanen was averaging just two points more, 22.2 ppg on 15.4 fga.
70.5% of Markkanen's made field goals have been assisted for the season. I am not sure how that compares to an average forward. Jerami Grant averages a similar 21.5 ppg on 14.5 fga with 70.2% of his made field goals assisted. But superstar Jayson Tatum averages 30.5 ppg on 20.5 fga with just 55.9% of his made field goals assisted. Superstar Joel Embiid averages 32.3 ppg on 20.2 fga with just 58.7% of his made field goals assisted. By contrast, superstar Karl Malone averaged 27.4 ppg on 19.2 fga in 1997, with 77.7% of his made field goals assisted, and he won the MVP. Thank you John Stockton!
Markkanen doesn't look like a number one player so far in terms of frequently going out and creating his own basket, but he moves very well without the ball and he is an excellent finisher who benefits a lot from playing with good passing guards who are looking for him.
All Jazz players' % assisted made baskets for season:
https://www.nba.com/stats/players/scoring?DateFrom=&DateTo=&TeamID=1610612762&dir=A&sort=PCT_AST_FGM
