Brewers shooting woes

[Ice32]

Corey Brewer is now 2-for-17 shooting in preseason play after Tuesday's 1-for-4 night. "I'm not concerned about it at all," coach Kurt Rambis said before the game. "He has had some really good practices since then [two European games when Brewer made one of 13 shots] and we spent some time working with him and got him back in sync. Does that mean it's over? No, but he looks a lot better shooting the basketball than he did over there."

Brewer played just 10 minutes, scored on a layup, got an assist on a Beasley three pointer and played decent D on Melo.

His shot will eventually fall, and it allows Webster and Wes to provide some spark off the bench.

[wolfbourne]

My jury still isn't out yet on Brewer, but im not holding out too much hope on him now as compared to the end of last season. Brewer is either just not a consistent and skilled enough NBA-level player or he is one of those players that takes a good 20-30 games to get his groove on. Or there is the possibility that he is both.

If he does seem to be the slow starter and turns on in the next two months, perhaps a midseason trade is best if it's a viable option when he's looking good. Save ourselves with the pain of his slow starts next season and put his time into developing Ellington or Hayward.

If his FG% picks up and improves again on his defensive pressure (and he is not slow to warm up to the pace of the game), i would have no issues seeing him as a 6-8th man starter. He starts so he can put defensive pressure on the opposing teams star immediately to slow their offensive tempo and reduce the chances of us being 'jumped' at the start of games, then use him sparingly as a defensive tempo changer when the score seems to be running away from the Wolves or a certain player is starting to run over everybody.

Still early. I guess the question is, to the people who are still holding the "still early, wait and see" train of thought on Brewer: How long are you waiting to see? How long do you think Rambis is going to wait and see, before making a longterm evaluation?

I picked December as my evaluation month for Corey. His future with the club and place in the team should be a lot clearer in January after about 40 games.

[Mr Dew]

His shot will eventually fall, and it allows Webster and Wes to provide some spark off the bench.

Why do we have any reason to believe his shot will eventually fall? He had moments of decent shooting last year, but based on current and past performance, he is one of the worst shooters on this team. Defensively, he's solid, but he is hardly the "stopper" that we envisioned he would be a year or two ago.

[Biff Cooper]

With Brewer, it almost always seems like it's mental. He thinks too much and tries to rush things rather than being able to get in a comfort zone where he has a shot at making a basket. Its kind of like a pitcher not trusting his stuff, and throwing around the strike zone rather than in the strike zone. When he does get comfortable on the court, when he trusts his athleticism enough to know that he can be in control and still get his shot off, then he looks like a totally different player. We've been waiting his entire career for him to settle down and do this consistantly, and he keeps reverting back to hyper-corey. I'm not ready to give up on him and trade him away for scraps, but I sure hope he figures it out soon.