PG: Lebron's slump buster

[LBJ-ITALY]

lets ask a question...

when KD scores 40+ how many FTAs does he average? 15? 20? 25? how many shot attempts does he take?

Lebron tonight... 43 points on 6-8 FT attempts and 19 shots

that's why he's the best. a team guy

This, I have told you, it is easy for DuraFT to make 30p every night when he starts the game with already 15ft on the book, while Lebron has to work a log to score 30p! This should be a 50p game for Lebron, but as usual they don't call the half of ft that he deserves!

[fast-break]

I want Cole out of the rotation.

hes nothing but a liability.

Both pg's are sucking dick as of late, so that's probably not going to happen.

[DWadeno3]

So people on here laugh at other's who complain about us getting all the calls, yet you constantly see whining about Durant's or Harden's FTAs?!? That doesn't make sense.

With that being said, we didn't play well defensively but won against a garbage team. The best part about tonight was Oden looking very solid physically.

[PaulieWal]

So people on here laugh at other's who complain about us getting all the calls, yet you constantly see whining about Durant's or Harden's FTAs?!? That doesn't make sense.

There is a difference. For one we don't get all the calls. Last year Spurs and Indy shot more FTs than us. We are not the league leader in FTA neither are any of our players. Do you see people complaining about the calls Blake or Dwight get? Harden and KD get a lot of soft calls and LeBron is getting the Shaq treatment. He regularly gets hammered and gets no calls. Meanwhile KD and Harden get a lot of ticky tack calls these days. Hell, forget our board almost everyone on GB has noticed the calls Harden gets and at times KD.

[shanedude]

Bosh isnt getting enough credit on here. Cat was clutch as ****

[xMADEinDADEx]

43/6/4 on 74.4% FG. 0 turnovers, 2 steals, 3 blocks.

NOW PLS DONT SUCK THE NEXT 3 GAMES.

[CablexDeadpool]

Rio is up and down, but he often has good games in money time.

Cole is just mostly...down. I like the kid, but being real - I'm not sure what people see in him. his defense is not a game changer, PG's defense rarely is. he's too short and has no length, so he doesn't get steals and guards often just drain shots over him. On offense he's just not good shooter, never was. He's also too small to be a good finisher in the paint, so his quickness is wasted in that regard. He's just not better then a bunch of PG's you could get for the minimum.

I feel bad for the kid because he's a hard worker, but after 3 years you have to say he's just not talented.

Douglas is bigger, a better defender, better shooter, possibly even better BB IQ....

What are you talking about?

Norris Cole's Breakdown by Month

November
Pts: 6.8 Rebs: 3.2 Assists: 3.3 TS: 51.2 eFg: 50

Decemeber
Pts: 7.5 Rebs: 1.7 Assists: 3 TS: 57.6 eFG: 55.5

Janurary
Pts: 8.8 Rebs: 2.6 Assists: 3.6 TS: 54.7 eFG: 51

Feburary (10 Games)
Pts: 6.6 Rebs: 1.2 Assists: 2.1 TS: 46.4 eFG: 43.1

March so far
Pts: 4.2 Rebs: .9 Assists: 1.6 TS: 40 eFG: 36.7


Novemember to January average (45 games)
Pts: 7.5 Rebs: 2.5 Assists: 3.4 TS: 54.5 eFG: 52

Feburary to March so far average (19 games)
Pts: 5.5 Rebs: 1 Assists: 1.8 TS: 43.8 eFG: 40

And within these 19 games where he has been slumping, had a 4 great role player games and the rest has been bad or indifferent, just like the team has been in the last 19 games.

W Vs NYK 2/1/14
Pts: 11 Rebs: 1 Assists: 5 TS: 90 eFG: 90

W Vs GSW 2/12/14
Pts: 10 Rebs: 1 Assists: 2 TS: 68.3 eFG: 58.3

W Vs NYK 2/27/14
Pts: 11 Rebs: 2 Assists: 2 TS: 55.7 eFG: 55.6

L Vs Chi 3/9/14
Pts: 11 Rebs: 0 Assists: 1 TS: 68.9 eFG: 64.3


And lets see what Toney Douglas has done this year in his 24 games with GSW where they were actually looking for a sparkplug guard off the bench and ended up trading for Jordan Crawford.

Pts: 3.7 Rebs: 1 Assists: 0.8 TS: 49.2 eFG: 48.3

And lets not go back to over Toney Douglas' career and see the only two seasons where he was better than Cole and that was his first two years in the league and the rest his career, he's been average to subpar being trade fodder.

So stop your "Norris Cole Sucks - Toney Douglas is better" campaign because Cole obviously doesn't suck and Toney Douglas isn't better than Cole. Cole is an average Back-Up Point Guard. Not a starting point guard. He is right along with CJ Watson who was part of Bench Mob in Chicago that kicked everyone's ass. He is in a funk along with the rest of the team this time of year and he'll probably get out it off to perform in the early rounds of the playoffs like he did last year and then be sparingly used in the later rounds.

2012-2013 first 9 games of the playoffs
Pts: 8.8 Rebs: 2.4 Assists: 1.8 TS: 73.5 eFG: 71.9

And he had to big back to back 18 point games vs Chicago in Game 2 and Game 3.

[BIRDMAN BIRDMAN]

Nice one LBJ!

Guess this is the part of the season where we don't see Beasley unless it's garbage time ala Rashard. Oh well.

I hope Oden continues to improve as well

[Yaphet Kotto]

Bosh isnt getting enough credit on here. Cat was clutch as ****

You're right, dude has been money in the bank in winning time all year.


I hope this is the year we finally have a fully healthy big 3 all playoffs.

[Sonny Carson]

Whats crazy is he did it on 19 shots. And missed a couple FTs.

He could have had another 60 point game if he wanted. But smartly paced himself because he knew we had Boston tomorrow.

Whats even crazier?

His last two games without DWade. 61 and 43.

[twozeroMM]

It has to be the Jordan leg sleeve

[Sonny Carson]

It has to be the Jordan leg sleeve

Am I the only one who notices the worthy Ron Harper in the background.

[HIF]

Let's not get carried away. We beat the lowly Cavs without Kyrie or Deng in Miami by 4.

That is not good. I wasn't overly impressed with Lebron's game.

Bosh got our asses out of the fire.

I'm glad that Wade is playing so well. We need all three at the moment.

[HIF]

That pass to Ray Ray and the two blocks were Excellent

[fast-break]

Let's not get carried away. We beat the lowly Cavs without Kyrie or Deng in Miami by 4.

That is not good. I wasn't overly impressed with Lebron's game.

Bosh got our asses out of the fire.

I'm glad that Wade is playing so well. We need all three at the moment.

The game was in Miami though?

[SweetTouch]

Don't mind Hif, he doesn't really watch games just box scores

[Axel]

On a positive note, UD looked great! He was really looking for his shot, and his teammates (wade & beas) did a great job looking for him. He might get some burn in the Playoffs if he continues to play well down the stretch.