Juke Skywalker - The Kemba Walker Thread II

[Radu_Hornets]

Kemba's look at curry after he hit the 3 on his face in the 4th.

"You ain't never come here, it's MY team"

[catch20two]

Kemba's assist averages will & need to rise a bit, but I'm content with him playing the way he does as long as he can do it efficiently (at least 45% from the field). As of now, scoring efficiency is his biggest weakness, not distribution

The 2008 Celtics won the Finals with Rajon Rondo averaging 5.1 assist per game

The 2007 Spurs won the Finals with Tony Parker averaging 5.5 assist per game

The 2004 Pistons won the Finals with Chauncey Billups averaging 5.7 assist per game

The 2002 Lakers won the Finals with Kobe Bryant averaging 5.5 assist per game (Derek Fisher - 2.6 APG)

...and so on, so on...

Scoring & assist is a team effort. The moment a defense can focus their gameplan on a single player being the primary playmaker, that will be the moment that team's offense will struggle (i.e. Chris Paul in the postseason)

I did the math to see what Kemba has been shooting before & sans that 7-game shooting slump after the November 5th match in Madison Square Garden

Outside of that regression, he has made 103 of his 223 field goal attempts & 23 of his 3-point attempts, good for 46% from the field & 35% from beyond the arc in 14 games

In other words...

[thruthefire]

Eh, Jennings might be a All-Star this year. I thought the East was weak last year at PG but it might be worst this year. Right now it look like Wall is in the lead with Jennings behind him. Kyrie might make it off popularity alone despite struggling mightily. Kemba got a chance to put his name in the convo if we're still hovering around .500 come late January. That shoulder injury in the Knicks game did him no favors.

It seems like you're putting forth a best-of-the-worst argument. Although you can do worse, I wouldn't be happy with someone like Jennings long-term. Kemba can and needs to do better.

[mrknowitall215]

Kemba's assist averages will & need to rise a bit, but I'm content with him playing the way he does as long as he can do it efficiently (at least 45% from the field). As of now, scoring efficiency is his biggest weakness, not distribution

The 2008 Celtics won the Finals with Rajon Rondo averaging 5.1 assist per game

The 2007 Spurs won the Finals with Tony Parker averaging 5.5 assist per game

The 2004 Pistons won the Finals with Chauncey Billups averaging 5.7 assist per game

The 2002 Lakers won the Finals with Kobe Bryant averaging 5.5 assist per game (Derek Fisher - 2.6 APG)

...and so on, so on...

Scoring & assist is a team effort. The moment a defense can focus their gameplan on a single player being the primary playmaker, that will be the moment that team's offense will struggle (i.e. Chris Paul in the postseason)

I did the math to see what Kemba has been shooting before & sans that 7-game shooting slump after the November 5th match in Madison Square Garden

Outside of that regression, he has made 103 of his 223 field goal attempts & 23 of his 65 3-point attempts, good for 46% from the field & 35% from beyond the arc in 14 games

In other words...

EDIT: typo fix (23 of his 65 3-point attempts for 35%)

[mrknowitall215]

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Kembamonium?!? I don't know. It might stick with me if he has another game tonight in TWC like he had the other night vs GSW

[HornetJail]

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Kembamonium?!? I don't know. It might stick with me if he has another game tonight in TWC like he had the other night vs GSW

Holy **** I'm using this

[Eoghan]

I'm really losing patience with him as a facilitator. He's lucky there aren't any PGs in this upcoming draft that wow me, otherwise I'd be thinking about us grabbing one. I still want to see Kemba in a line-up with at least one shooter, meaning get rid of Hendo for somebody that actually is a shooting guard.

[mrknowitall215]

There's no excuse for the poor offensive performance Kemba put forth tonight. I'll take it as somewhat of an anomaly since he's had a good 5-game stretch beforehand, but this type of inconsistency is the type of detriment that'll make a coach turn to next man up 'if' the next man up was good enough. Luckily for Kemba, Sessions has forgot how to be a PG, and has turned into a player trying to get as many shots at the rim as he can once subbed into the game before he's subbed out

[HornetJail]

There's no excuse for the poor offensive performance Kemba put forth tonight. I'll take it as somewhat of an anomaly since he's had a good 5-game stretch beforehand, but this type of inconsistency is the type of detriment that'll make a coach turn to next man up 'if' the next man up was good enough. Luckily for Kemba, Sessions has forgot how to be a PG, and has turned into a player trying to get as many shots at the rim as he can once subbed into the game before he's subbed out

Sessions has essentially become a shooting guard ever since he was traded from Cleveland. I love Sessions, and wish he could stay, but between Kemba, Sessions, Hendo, Taylor, Gordon, and even CDR- we have six guards and NONE of them are consistent 3-point shooters. I think we need to trade Sessions. He's great for the right team and we were that team last year, but I think his talents are better suited elsewhere. We need a Calderon-type player right now that can hit 40% of his threes and feed the ball to Jefferson and Co. better. Calderon is horrific defensively, but this team should be fine with BRD's defensive schemes.

[mrknowitall215]

There's no excuse for the poor offensive performance Kemba put forth tonight. I'll take it as somewhat of an anomaly since he's had a good 5-game stretch beforehand, but this type of inconsistency is the type of detriment that'll make a coach turn to next man up 'if' the next man up was good enough. Luckily for Kemba, Sessions has forgot how to be a PG, and has turned into a player trying to get as many shots at the rim as he can once subbed into the game before he's subbed out

Sessions has essentially become a shooting guard ever since he was traded from Cleveland. I love Sessions, and wish he could stay, but between Kemba, Sessions, Hendo, Taylor, Gordon, and even CDR- we have six guards and NONE of them are consistent 3-point shooters. I think we need to trade Sessions. He's great for the right team and we were that team last year, but I think his talents are better suited elsewhere. We need a Calderon-type player right now that can hit 40% of his threes and feed the ball to Jefferson and Co. better. Calderon is horrific defensively, but this team should be fine with BRD's defensive schemes.

I don't want to make this about Sessions because Kemba is the leader of the team, and performances like tonight just cannot be, but I agree. Since last season, I've always felt like they should've traded Sessions at his highest value for a more complimentary piece at another position that'll help the overall betterment of the team, while filling the backup PG spot with a player that's just adequate enough

[fatlever]

its feels like sessions knows he is among lead leaders in free-throw attempts per minutes and has become obsessed with leading the league in this stat. if you didnt know any better you would think free-throw attempts are tied to his contract.

[mrknowitall215]

its feels like sessions knows he is among lead leaders in free-throw attempts per minutes and has become obsessed with leading the league in this stat. if you didnt know any better you would think free-throw attempts are tied to his contract.

If I didn't know any better (and that Sessions doesn't make superstar money), I would have thought that he was paying the referees off. Don't get me wrong, Sessions does a good job of getting into the lane & creating contact, but he get the calls that ONLY Lebron James himself can get. Not even God of the Free Throw Line, James Harden, get some of the whistles that Sessions get by throwing his body at defenders in an exaggerated effort

[mrknowitall215]

Back on topic, I think I know what Kemba's problem is — he's settling for that midrange jumper a little too often. It's effecting his ability as a playmaker because he's trying to take what the defense is giving him instead of dictating like a point guard is supposed to do. If Kemba begin to attack the rim more, not just to score but to afflict & shift defensive awareness towards himself, it'll lead to easy assist. Tonight, Kemba went 3 of 5 in the paint & 1 of 13 everywhere else. That's telling

[fatlever]

Back on topic, I think I know what Kemba's problem is — he's settling for that midrange jumper a little too often. It's effecting his ability as a playmaker because he's trying to take what the defense is giving him instead of dictating like a point guard is supposed to do. If Kemba begin to attack the rim more, not just to score but to afflict & shift defensive awareness towards himself, it'll lead to easy assist. Tonight, Kemba went 3 of 5 in the paint & 1 of 13 everywhere else. That's telling

agreed. i feel like sometimes when kemba has a hot streak from mid-range (like monday) he gets a false sense of security and settles for that shot. sadly, his jumper is maddeningly inconsistent.

the first pick and roll of the game for kemba was with mcroberts, kemba took the screen, drove to his right hand, maybe two dribbles and as soon as he had a sliver of daylight he promptly pulled up for an off-balanced, mid-range jumper, which he missed. i remember thinking to myself, "oh no, here we go again".

[Liver_Pooty]

I get on Kemba a lot, but I still have high hopes for him.

Boy oh boy is he frustrating to watch sometimes, though.

[Liver_Pooty]

Walkers field goal % is now down to a paltry 38% and 30% from three. That has to change..

[JDR720]

He takes more midrange jumpers than shots in the paint, that is dumb with his speed he should attack the rim not shoot, needs to play like Tony Parker who has taken almost twice as many shots in the paint than midrange

[Liver_Pooty]

He takes more midrange jumpers than shots in the paint, that is dumb with his speed he should attack the rim not shoot, needs to play like Tony Parker who has taken almost twice as many shots in the paint than midrange

Walker doesn't have that savvy veteran presence yet to be able to draw fouls though. Jordan should do with Walker like he does Henderson, and make a tape on how Sessions draws fouls. Its actually a work of art on how Sessions can draw so many fouls at times. Driving to the basket at lightning speed begging for contact won't do it, being patient and driving waiting for someone to touch you then hoisting up some BS shot like Sessions does will though.

[mrknowitall215]

[catch20two]

Kardiac Kemba!!!