Dominator83 wrote:DuckIII wrote:Dez wrote:
He didn't say only bad game.
Do you guys think he had a “bad game”? His shot wasn’t falling but other than that he played all other parts very well I thought.
2nd half he did nothing at all. 3 points, 1 assist, 2 turnovers. One of those turnovers he somehow did when it should have been a fast break dunk. Pretty close to a 2nd half Snell
He had a poor game, but 9 assists means he still contributed.
Overall, I think playing him, Coby and Caruso together just generally makes us so much smaller than the average NBA team... Demar slides to PF, Vuc to C... From what I understand, the "4th quarter defensive stats" look good for this combo, but in reality, I think we play down to competition and get bailed out by Demar. We definitively lose the glass, and have one of the lowest shot block rates in the league (no surprise though, 2 smallest players on the Bulls besides Jevon with all 4 blocks
Caruso with 3, Coby with 1).
Anyway, I don't have a problem with a $6m kid, designated 5th option, having a poor scoring half... but Ayo does need to be a more consistent scorer to become a full-time starter.
Like Coby of each passing year, the observation I'm making with Ayo is that this season, he's having 1 clunker after every 1-2 good games. I'd say a good half of his games are mediocre, and the rest are either good or very good. Last season, a good half of his games were terrible, a quarter were mediocre, and the remaining were good. Arguably 2-3 "very good" games. His consistency is noticeably better, so we're on the right track.