ATL - Oladipo is Really Good (and Bledsoe dominant again)

[jr lucosa]

Josh Smith is averaging 7 3PA so far this year. I had to look at it several times to make sure I wasn't reading it wrong.

40% of his field goal attempts have come off three's, obviously still early in the season but he's playing hideous basketball on the offensive end. Last year he put up a career high in that category at 17%.

Smith though similar to Have it All is so terribly inefficient everywhere outside of 3 feet that his 3 point shot is actually a better option than anything else away from the rim. He shouldn't be much more than a garbage bucket man on offense.

[emunney]

Jrue Holiday on getting assists:

"It’s easy with AD. You’ve just got to throw it somewhere in the vicinity of the basketball court."

Love this line. Would bump Eddy Curry if I were a Pels fan.

[trwi7]

Jrue Holiday on getting assists:

"It’s easy with AD. You’ve just got to throw it somewhere in the vicinity of the basketball court."

Love this line. Would bump Eddy Curry if I were a Pels fan.

Pels is lame. Have to start calling them the cans. Everyone loves cans.

[emunney]

Brow is a monster talent, just like everyone had him pegged when he left Kentucky.

[paulpressey25]

Your morning Suns report......

4-2 after another win last night. For whatever reason the Morris brothers are far better together than apart. Sort of a Lopez phenomenon. Markieff with 28/10 and Marcus with 11/8.

And of course Bledsoe on the season is at 20.3/7.5/4.5/2.0 shooting 50% from the field with a 62% TS. Now in full disclosure, he did get completely schooled by Tony Parker in the last three minutes of the Spurs game the other night.

Oh and Plumlee at 18/11 last night. He looks very good and extremely active. Pacers have to be kicking themselves on that one at the moment.

[WeekapaugGroove]

Yeah the Morri are strikingly better when on the floor together. It makes sense that they would understand how to play together but the effort seems to be much better too. Suns might have found a good coach in Horny. He has them playing fast an confident.


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[mattg]

How about that Evan turner guy most of this board didnt want for free this offseason?

[paulpressey25]

How about that Evan turner guy most of this board didnt want for free this offseason?

They weren't giving him away for free. We would have had to have paid up with a decent asset. But your point stands, he's another one of those emerging guys who might now be making the leap.

[SupremeHustle]

I didn't think he'd be very good, but how is Kendall Marshall already out of the league? That's amazing for a lottery pick.

[drew881]

At what point do we re-evaluate our position with the rest of the league? I think we can count on Boston, Utah, and Sacramento to be pretty bad, but other teams we thought to be better this year (Cleveland, Toronto, Brooklyn) seem to be off to pretty slow starts. Phoenix and Philly are the big surprises of course. It is super early, but I'm wondering if there is more parity this year with .500ish teams?

[jr lucosa]

I didn't think he'd be very good, but how is Kendall Marshall already out of the league? That's amazing for a lottery pick.

He looked really bad at everything. Can't score from anywhere, can't defend anyone, can't create pressure on the defense. He looked bad in SL, when they gave him minutes in the D-League last year he was terrible.

[WeekapaugGroove]

I didn't think he'd be very good, but how is Kendall Marshall already out of the league? That's amazing for a lottery pick.

He has the career killing combo of not being quick enough the defend or beat a defender combined with being a poor shooter.


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[steger_3434]

Is that the quickest a lotto pick has been out of the league? The only other ones that come to mind or skiti and that korelov kid that was drafted by the clippers.


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[paulpressey25]

Is that the quickest a lotto pick has been out of the league? The only other ones that come to mind or skiti and that korelov kid that was drafted by the clippers.

Potsie says hello.....

[bullox]

At what point do we re-evaluate our position with the rest of the league? I think we can count on Boston, Utah, and Sacramento to be pretty bad, but other teams we thought to be better this year (Cleveland, Toronto, Brooklyn) seem to be off to pretty slow starts. Phoenix and Philly are the big surprises of course. It is super early, but I'm wondering if there is more parity this year with .500ish teams?

The sample is still far too small to extrapolate current standings in to end of year projections. Bad teams can have good weeks.

[Ayt]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkFhu-dL_kk[/youtube]

I haven't seen him play but now i'm really curious.

You are in for a treat.

He is a freak. He's 6-10.5 with absurd length. He moves like a huge SG. He was a PG early in HS at 6-0. He was 6-4 after his sophomore year. He was a nobody prospect at that point. He then continued to grow and became a top flight college prospect and a top flight NBA prospect. As a freshman, he led his team to a national championship. He didn't dominate by scoring a bunch of points and making flashy plays. He dominated by being one of the most impressive defensive prospects I've ever seen.

His defensive instincts are off the charts. That isn't an exaggeration. He's also a smart offensive player with impressive skills who is still learning how to play as a big.

For the sake of comparison in terms of body type, Henson is 6-9 barefoot with a 7-5 wingspan. Davis is 6-9.25 barefoot, with a 7-5.5 wingspan. Now combine Henson's body with elite athleticism and give him some guard skills.

[stellation]

He looks fantastic, especially love a big guy coming off screens for jumpers- but I do kind of get the point that a lot of that was helped by lazy/unaware play by the Lakers in that clip.

[Ayt]

He looks fantastic, especially love a big guy coming off screens for jumpers- but I do kind of get the point that a lot of that was helped by lazy/unaware play by the Lakers in that clip.

Actually, I agree. I didn't fully watch the vid before I posted it. I thought it would show more action.

He went for 32-12 with 6 blocks. The video only shows 14 of his points and doesn't show any of his D other than the one block. I'm sure there will be a video at some point that will show all of the action.

Lol really? You don't want him to do it for more than 5 games before anointing him the best big in basketball?

He's playing incredibly right now but there's a hole coming.

I said when he was at Kentucky that I thought he could be a top ten player during his rookie season. Before this season started I said there were only two players I'd trade him for and I debate him vs Paul. He's only now doing what I expected of him. The kid is a superstar.

Sure, but he wasn't remotely close to a top 10 player as a rookie. I don't doubt his talent, but I see no way he keeps this up this season.

Still there are a lot of awful big defenders in the NBA right now and it seems like he's figured that out and is punishing them. Don't imagine he'll get 20 points or so in transition every night though.

What was your take on Davis entering the draft?

[blazza18]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmIZ9AD53JE[/youtube]

[Ayt]

Nice. That's nice.