KembaWalker wrote:fatlever wrote:But this is who Lamelo has been his entire life. This is how he was taught at a play basketball growing up. I'm not sure if there's a coach out there that can get him to take these shots out of his game. Maybe one day there will be a coach that can harness the brilliance of Lamelo while at the same time helping him see the difference it would make on his teammates and the winning of the team to have better shot selection.
In his
all star year, 75% of his 3s were assisted and he was hitting them at 39%, he seemed like he was on a good development path toward being an efficient 25/10 type guy if he had stayed on that trajectory and improved his drive and finishing to what we have today.
Instead at some point, hard to pinpoint with all the injuries he decided or it was decided for him that he needs to be an iso volume scorer. Kind of disappointing because I genuinely think he was on a better path and his passing and general playmaking and game management seems to be regressing to me.
Maybe early years Melo was unhappy with his playstyle and this is the real Melo, or maybe we contributed to putting him on this path. Hard to say
Looked it up and it was like waking up in an alternate reality seeing what Borrego had them doing that year. Roster-wise, the difference was we had multiple wings able to handle the ball, #1 Hayward, and even a big you can get into the 2-man game in the offensive maestro Plumlee.
It obviously helped Borrego was two years into the job with mostly the same crew when LaMelo showed up. This was LaMelo's rookie year, been a while since I heard the words "positionless basketball".
(Still wondering why we didn't get Sengun when we had the chance, and I think James would've loved to have Cooper Flagg on that Hornets team.)
