Liver_Pooty wrote:On Mike and Mike this morning they asked Avery Johnson if Charlotte was one player away from the upper echelon of the east. Avery said probably 2, and we need big time help at SF since MKG literally can do nothing on the offensive end.
Chris Webber was calling Rockets vs Blazers game last night and he made a comment about Thomas Robinson after it was said that T Rob was on like 3 different teams in only his second year, and Webber made the same statement Kenny the Jet Smith made when he said "sometimes players just aren't in the right situation". Well MKG is not in the right situation, it's clear when you see his numbers dropped off from the previous year, when you hear about the coach wanting to reduce his role, it's clear when you see he doesnt get entrusted to play in the 4th quarter even though he's one of our best OVERALL players.
Chauncey Billups career didnt blow up until he left Boston, the team that drafted him. Thabo Sefolosha was at the end of the bench in Chicago, he gets traded to OKC and he becomes a valuable piece to what they have their. Rondo was average and considered the weak link in Boston when the big 3 came, and they pretty much helped make him a all star.
MKG has major talent, but Cliff wasnt the guy that brought him here, and this is what potentially happens when you draft a guy who isn't a finished product and you have different coaches coming in with different agendas, the young project players development can get lost when new coaches come in with their own plans.
Cliff came into Charlotte as a student of Stan Van Gundy, a guy who valued 3pt and perimeter shooting, MKG is clearly not, and has never been a perimeter shooter, so because of that we just dont play him so guys like Tolliver and CDR, and Neal can chuck up jumpers while a true young talent sits the bench like he isn't someone who can help us win games. I guarantee you if MKG played 30 plus minutes a game and he shot just 10 shots per game, he'd have averaged at least 14 and 7 per for the year. Instead he plays about 15-20 minutes per game, he's given a role offensively where hes treated as the guy who you cant trust with the ball, and then people who dont really understand whats happening say he's the weak link.
I'll say again, that I believe MKG will be gone, either by draft time this off season, or by the trade deadline next season. He wont be a good jump shooter over the summer, as a matter of fact, thanks to Cliff MKG's jumper is worse than it's ever been cause they put it in his head that his jumper is so bad looking, and so wrong that he has to change it entirely. What coach has EVER tried to make a player shoot the ball with a entirely different form? If you know anything about coaching, you'd know that telling a person this is detrimental to the player because you need focus when you shoot jumpers, and telling someone what MKG was told would only make the person lose focus on the way he shoots naturally and have him overly thinking when he shoots which could lead to doubts in the shot, which is exactly what everybody here has at one point accused MKG of, not trusting his jumper. Thank Cliff for that.
MKG will be ok, I think he can have a great career in the NBA. I think that he will get even stronger than he already is, and remember, at 20 years old, the guy is already over 230 pounds. I just hope if we let him go we get something of value back since we are making his value drop by treating him as a scrub.
