Signed By Indiana - The Jeremy Lamb Thread

[KDATX]

What if he just isn't that good?

[mrknowitall215]

What if he just isn't that good?

If Jeremy Lamb just isnt' that good, and look like P.J. Hairston then it would be easy to accept the fate that he's not worthy of playing time. However, I'm fairly sure that I'd rather see Lamb in the rotation than the departed Henderson based on skill sets and that's that. Lamb wasn't a bad player during his sparse minutes in OKC. Even OKC fans were bewildered by why Brooks didn't play Lamb more

[BlackOutBuzz]

Lamb is our only true shooting guard.

We have 4 shooting guards (and that's not even including the guy who will start there), and frankly none of them have shown much of anything at the NBA level.

[HornetJail]

Lamb is our only true shooting guard.

We have 4 shooting guards (and that's not even including the guy who will start there), and frankly none of them have shown much of anything at the NBA level.

3, but your point stands. Lamb, Daniels, and PJ will all be fighting for minutes behind Batum, and I think only one of them is in the rotation- two if we decide to play small ball. I don't think PJ is going to make it here. Even if Jeff Taylor gets brought back for some reason, he won't ever see the court over any of them.

[BlackOutBuzz]

Lamb is our only true shooting guard.

We have 4 shooting guards (and that's not even including the guy who will start there), and frankly none of them have shown much of anything at the NBA level.

3, but your point stands.

I was including Harrison, not sure he's a PG.

[Al Kidd-Walker]

With all of those brick houses PJ loves to build im sure Lamb will at least be ahead of him in the rotation..

[MasterIchiro]

Lamb is our only true SG who is any good. I don't count a sf like batum. He's not a true SG even though he is great. Pj is no good. Daniels is one dimensional. Lamb is way better. Harrison is neither a SG nor good.




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[BlackOutBuzz]

To be honest they're all "bad," Lamb has had the longest to disprove this too. I don't doubt though that he's the best of the bunch.

One guy was the 12th pick, two of them are minimum players that went undrafted, and one is PJ Hairston. So Lamb had better stand out among that group.

[Liver_Pooty]

Lamb is our only 2 guard that's average. Rest of them suck.

[RealHusky]

Lamb is very laid back. He always been like that. He is a very good shooter though. Jeremy and Kemba should get him some easier shots. If all the SGs can't play, I think coach will put Lin with Kemba to close out games. I really do believe Hornets have to play small ball like GSW when facing fast break teams like GSW. Al has to stay off the court when they face lineups like that.

[mrknowitall215]

To be honest they're all "bad," Lamb has had the longest to disprove this too. I don't doubt though that he's the best of the bunch.

One guy was the 12th pick, two of them are minimum players that went undrafted, and one is PJ Hairston. So Lamb had better stand out among that group.

Lamb isn't "bad" at all. His career numbers are just as good as Henderson's at a per minute rate. The knock on Lamb is that he was on a team with a coach that didn't give him a fair shake, and the stigma of being the potential upside of the James Harden trade made it easy for him to be ridiculed as the Thunder took steps backwards after that Finals loss

[catch20two]

Lamb is better than Hendo. Yea I said it. Hendo was trash that just got every opportunity to look decent because Cho refused to bring in wing depth. CDR was better for us than Hendo and the numbers agree.

[BigSlam]

What if he just isn't that good?

Then we only burnt a future 2nd round pick on him so it's no biggie if he busts.

[catch20two]

To be honest they're all "bad," Lamb has had the longest to disprove this too. I don't doubt though that he's the best of the bunch.

One guy was the 12th pick, two of them are minimum players that went undrafted, and one is PJ Hairston. So Lamb had better stand out among that group.

Lamb isn't "bad" at all. His career numbers are just as good as Henderson's at a per minute rate. The knock on Lamb is that he was on a team with a coach that didn't give him a fair shake, and the stigma of being the potential upside of the James Harden trade made it easy for him to be ridiculed as the Thunder took steps backwards after that Finals loss

Lamb's numbers are better. More ppg per 36min, made and shot 3x as many 3s, higher TS%, higher PER, more win shares per 48min. Hendo was trash. Making Hendo the go-to guy is what made us the worst team in NBA history. Langston Galloway prolly won more games for the Knicks than Hendo did for us that year.

[mrknowitall215]

Lamb is better than Hendo. Yea I said it. Hendo was trash that just got every opportunity to look decent because Cho refused to bring in wing depth. CDR was better for us than Hendo and the numbers agree.

I can only hope that Lamb get a fair shake here with Clifford. I think he will, but it's very possible that he could get lost in the shuffle to extremely limited minutes like OKC if Batum & MKG are both on top of their game forcing the hand of Clifford to play them 35+ minutes each, and the Kemba-Lin backcourt dynamic is a success. Clifford is just as peculiar of a coach as Brooks with rotations, but I think Clifford is better. We'll have to wait & see how it all hashes out

[MasterIchiro]

Lamb is better than Hendo. Yea I said it. Hendo was trash that just got every opportunity to look decent because Cho refused to bring in wing depth. CDR was better for us than Hendo and the numbers agree.

I can only hope that Lamb get a fair shake here with Clifford. I think he will, but it's very possible that he could get lost in the shuffle to extremely limited minutes like OKC if Batum & MKG are both on top of their game forcing the hand of Clifford to play them 35+ minutes each, and the Kemba-Lin backcourt dynamic is a success. Clifford is just as peculiar of a coach as Brooks with rotations, but I think Clifford is better. We'll have to wait & see how it all hashes out

I don't think the mkg batum pairing will work. Jeremy lamb will get his opening. He will be closing games this year. Mark my words.

[mrknowitall215]

I don't think the mkg batum pairing will work. Jeremy lamb will get his opening. He will be closing games this year. Mark my words.

I don't think the pairing will work either. There's not enough aggressive scoring from the wing position in my opinion

[MasterIchiro]

I don't think the mkg batum pairing will work. Jeremy lamb will get his opening. He will be closing games this year. Mark my words.

I don't think the pairing will work either. There's not enough aggressive scoring from the wing position in my opinion

exactly, can't have one wing passing up 3s and the other unable to take or make them. That's what we had with hendo and mkg last year. It won't last long.

[BlackOutBuzz]

Meh, Batum averages 4.3 3-point attempts per game to Lamb's 2.6.

[MasterIchiro]

Meh, Batum averages 4.3 3-point attempts per game to Lamb's 2.6.

And compared to hendo last year?