Braggins wrote:ChokeFasncists wrote:amcoolio wrote:Brandon Jennings was really good last season before he got injured. He was putting up 15 point/10 assist games on the regular. Kemba will sadly never come close to Jennings passing ability unfortunately. How many 10+ assist games does Kemba have in his career, like 5? Then you got rookies like Marcus Smart and Mudiay coming in and immediately firing off 10+ assist games and getting their teammates involved. Disheartening.
Lin and Kemba are similar players. We need a distributor. Maybe Rondo can be had.
We need a Willie Cauley Stein or Myles Turner-type player at C to open up our offense and catch lobs from our point guard.
They aren't that similar IMO. With the right personnel/scheme, Lin can dish out 10 assists on any given night. A center to PnR and throw lobs to would be nice, good shooters/slashers and fastbreakers.
We've always had super shoddy PnR bigs here. Last year our frontcourt was Al and a sh*tty version of Marv, the year before it was Al and McBob (aka the best PnR big Kemba has played with...), and the year before that it was Byron Mullens and rookie Bismack Biyombo. This is also the first year we've had any kind of shooting since Kemba has been here. Its never exactly been a PG friendly environment. Lin is shooting less than 2% better than Kemba from the floor and about 1% better from deep. Lin plays with better shooters and PnR options than Kemba does in our rotation and plays most of his minutes against backups and, not counting the Portland game, his per36 assists are only .2 higher, while Kemba has a 5.3% advantage in ast%, averages 1.8 assists per 100 possessions, and has a much higher ast/to ratio. Those numbers aren't counting the Portland game, but that doesn't have much effect.
I thought Kemba played the way we need him to against Portland tonight. 5/12 - 2/5 shooting, 5 assists, 4 rebounds, 2 steel, 2 turnovers. He honestly had an off shooting night but still shot over 40%. His off shooting nights when he spazzes out end up being like 5/16. Lin is spazzy in his own way, but he gets out of control and racks up TO's instead of missed field goals. If we can get a non-spaz version of one of them every night then our PG situation is fine imo. I honestly expect both of them to get more consistent as the team starts to gel more and hopefully Lin gets some more minutes.
Come on, didn't have this discussion already? Al is infinitely better for assists than Hawes. Cody has been seriously struggling until the Knicks/Wolves games and got injured after that. Then came Frank who keeps faking the three or miss most of his shots, he's not ready yet. As well as Lamb has played, Batum plays much better, even as a spot up shooter. It's real frustrating that the main PnR big is Hawes. Lin passes him the ball and he fakes the three.
Lin has to not get out of control, that's for sure his biggest weakness; one big reason for his low assists numbers, he's trying to find the balance between threading the needle and turning the ball over. Kemba tho, makes too predictable passes, that's also his weakness, to the other extreme. That's where they're most different. Lin prefers to pass most of the times, he likes to draw defenders, whereas Kemba likes to take tough shots, he's closer to a SG in a PG body with an elite handle. Lin loves throwing lobs/touchdown passes, whereas Kemba rarely does.
Mentally, Kemba is too steady in terms of passing while Lin is bipolar, either making spectacular passes or being unsure of what to do next. Lin is still seriously trying to figure out his way tho. We don't know what the outcome's gonna be. Walker has been like this ever since, he might, but no one is banking on it that he'll change drastically.
