Wildcat wrote:Jalen Bluntson wrote:Wildcat wrote:
21 points and 24 from OJ seems to be plenty. JB needs to work through whatever funk is going through, though.
Being double teamed isn't a funk. He looks like his ankle is bothering him though. So hopefully that's what we saw last night. Combination of full court press and double teams with a sore ankle. He dropped 37 on the Nets Friday and has been playing well enough all season. The constant comments about him are really nonsense. Teams have been gearing up to keep the ball out of his hands and letting anyone else try to beat them.
24.3 on 46/35/81 is not really a funk. It's a completely new lineup and they have barely played a month together. People need to calm down with these comments about him being in a funk. It's silly. His three ball is off a little bit and teams are keeping him out of the paint. That's really all there is to it IMO.
You can't say his 3 point shot is a little off while acknowledging he isn't in the funk. I'm not saying he's stinking up the joint, or he's trash, but don't take funk to mean the extreme either.
And about that 3 point shot, he's shooting terribly from 3 point range comparative to what we expect. 18% the last few games. He's had 4 zero 3 point made games this season. You know how many he had last year? 5.
People are acting like he fell off a cliff around here. He's a career 38% 3pt shooter. He's shooting 35% on the season. With teams forcing him off the ball while he's trying to learn to play with a new starting 5 and a different offense from his first two years here. So whatever level of a funk you might be using, he'll be fine and has been fine all year.
RIP mags
