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Mr Peanut wrote:Cade was due for a come down to earth game. He looked tired and plenty of his shots were falling short. Was hard to watch though when his fellow draft classmates Sengun and Jalen Green were hitting everything.
flow wrote:Mr Peanut wrote:Cade was due for a come down to earth game. He looked tired and plenty of his shots were falling short. Was hard to watch though when his fellow draft classmates Sengun and Jalen Green were hitting everything.
Why was he due to come back to earth? If he's a franchise player, great performances should be more the norm than the exception.
Why was he tired? This wasn't a back-to-back. They had a day off.
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flow wrote:Mr Peanut wrote:Cade was due for a come down to earth game. He looked tired and plenty of his shots were falling short. Was hard to watch though when his fellow draft classmates Sengun and Jalen Green were hitting everything.
Why was he due to come back to earth? If he's a franchise player, great performances should be more the norm than the exception.
Why was he tired? This wasn't a back-to-back. They had a day off.
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whitehops wrote:i kind of felt bad for bojan, the rockets were very clearly targeting him and got him switched onto FVV or jalen green at will. between that and sengun going to town in the second half it's no surprise we collapsed defensively.
vic wrote:Mr Peanut wrote:vic wrote:Looking at the Rockets roster has destroyed my patience for Troy Weaver.
How can you draft Ausar Thompson at 5 when CAM WHITMORE was right there with everything you needed. 3 level scoring, defense, aggressiveness. We all love Ausar but as a GM you are supposed to make winning decisions, not emotional ones. Ausar has too many holes in his game.
Ausar has cooled off a bit recently (likely at least in part due to his reduced role), but if we're thinking about guys that we should've drafted over him then Whitmore ain't it. He only played garbage minutes today so it's hard to read into his performance too much, but otherwise he hasn't shown that much this season.
Ausar has shown he has the tools and potential to be an elite rebounder and defender for his position. He's a good cutter on offense. The shot is currently broken but he seems like a hard worker and I think he makes progress in that area to become at least passable.
Cam Whitmore was summer league MVP. He shows more in garbage minutes than any of our wings show in starters minutes because the Rockets draft quality wings while the Pistons had to bring back Kevin Knox from the YMCA just to win ONE GAME! Whitmore is buried behind much, much better players.
On our team he would be in contention for Rookie of the year because he would fill a huge gaping hole in our roster!
Because Troy puts millions of dollars into centers that can't play defense or shoot 3s in a league where wings that are 2-way players and 3 level scorers literally CAUSE YOUR TEAM TO WIN! Everybody knows this but Troy Weaver obviously.
flow wrote:Mr Peanut wrote:Cade was due for a come down to earth game. He looked tired and plenty of his shots were falling short. Was hard to watch though when his fellow draft classmates Sengun and Jalen Green were hitting everything.
Why was he due to come back to earth? If he's a franchise player, great performances should be more the norm than the exception.
Why was he tired? This wasn't a back-to-back. They had a day off.
Neptune wrote:Totally agree with this post! Seems like an excuse was made for poor play.
Mr Peanut wrote:flow wrote:Mr Peanut wrote:Cade was due for a come down to earth game. He looked tired and plenty of his shots were falling short. Was hard to watch though when his fellow draft classmates Sengun and Jalen Green were hitting everything.
Why was he due to come back to earth? If he's a franchise player, great performances should be more the norm than the exception.
Why was he tired? This wasn't a back-to-back. They had a day off.
Great performances for him have been the norm recently, and the bad game was the exception. Not sure how you interpreted the opposite from my statement.
He's tired because he's played the 8th most minutes this season out of all NBA players. And of the 7 players with more minutes than him, he exceeds all of them in usage. This is for a guy who's just been out for a year with injury and is likely still building up his conditioning. So there should be no surprises that he's tired.Neptune wrote:Totally agree with this post! Seems like an excuse was made for poor play.
No excuses, just a potential explanation. It was pretty clear watching the game that a lot of his shots were hitting the front of the rim and he wasn't nearly as active defensively as what he has been recently.
flow wrote:Mr Peanut wrote:flow wrote:
Why was he due to come back to earth? If he's a franchise player, great performances should be more the norm than the exception.
Why was he tired? This wasn't a back-to-back. They had a day off.
Great performances for him have been the norm recently, and the bad game was the exception. Not sure how you interpreted the opposite from my statement.
He's tired because he's played the 8th most minutes this season out of all NBA players. And of the 7 players with more minutes than him, he exceeds all of them in usage. This is for a guy who's just been out for a year with injury and is likely still building up his conditioning. So there should be no surprises that he's tired.Neptune wrote:Totally agree with this post! Seems like an excuse was made for poor play.
No excuses, just a potential explanation. It was pretty clear watching the game that a lot of his shots were hitting the front of the rim and he wasn't nearly as active defensively as what he has been recently.
Because the term "came back to earth" is typically used to describe a player who played back to their norm after playing over their head the previous game or two.
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