Markelle Fultz Updates Thread

thelead · Post #641 » by **thelead** » Wed Oct 30, 2019 3:49 am

PrimeThyme · Post #642 » by **PrimeThyme** » Wed Oct 30, 2019 5:05 am

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Can we just appreciate how easy he made this look? Fultz has a natural feel for the game you just can't teach. The combination of size, handle, instinct, court vision, and ability to finish at the rim is special. Not to mention the fact that he hasn't really played basketball in two years either and has less than 40 NBA games under his belt.

MagicStarwipe · Post #643 » by **MagicStarwipe** » Wed Oct 30, 2019 5:38 am

PrimeThyme wrote:
Spoiler:

Can we just appreciate how easy he made this look? Fultz has a natural feel for the game you just can't teach. The combination of size, handle, instinct, court vision, and ability to finish at the rim is special. Not to mention the fact that he hasn't really played basketball in two years either and has less than 40 NBA games under his belt.

I'm becoming optimistic with the way he is shooting with confidence. He was the number 1 pick for a reason.

GelbeWand09 · Post #644 » by **GelbeWand09** » Wed Oct 30, 2019 9:11 am

PrimeThyme wrote:
Spoiler:

Can we just appreciate how easy he made this look? Fultz has a natural feel for the game you just can't teach. The combination of size, handle, instinct, court vision, and ability to finish at the rim is special. Not to mention the fact that he hasn't really played basketball in two years either and has less than 40 NBA games under his belt.

For me his ability to get his shot off & creating space for him self, because of his handle & herky jerky moves is great, but one of the reason he cant get to the ft line too. We have seen against Toronto, how important it is, when your PG/main ballhandler gets to the line in close games.
I'm really happy about his start so far, even more after the rusty preseason. But the ft thing, is the element i really wanna see from him later in the season. So far 4 FTA in 9 games, including Preseason.

basketballRob · Post #645 » by **basketballRob** » Wed Oct 30, 2019 9:21 am

Wouldn't be surprised if Cliff doesn't start to feature him more on offense soon. He's averaging 18 pts 8 assists per 36 mpg now and I could see him getting up around 25 pts 10 assists.

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fendilim · Post #646 » by **fendilim** » Wed Oct 30, 2019 9:43 am

basketballRob wrote:Wouldn't be surprised if Cliff doesn't start to feature him more on offense soon. He's averaging 18 pts 8 assists per 36 mpg now and I could see him getting up around 25 pts 10 assists.

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PrimeThyme · Post #647 » by **PrimeThyme** » Wed Oct 30, 2019 12:48 pm

GelbeWand09 wrote:
PrimeThyme wrote:
Spoiler:

Can we just appreciate how easy he made this look? Fultz has a natural feel for the game you just can't teach. The combination of size, handle, instinct, court vision, and ability to finish at the rim is special. Not to mention the fact that he hasn't really played basketball in two years either and has less than 40 NBA games under his belt.

For me his ability to get his shot off & creating space for him self, because of his handle & herky jerky moves is great, but one of the reason he cant get to the ft line too. We have seen against Toronto, how important it is, when your PG/main ballhandler gets to the line in close games.
I'm really happy about his start so far, even more after the rusty preseason. But the ft thing, is the element i really wanna see from him later in the season. So far 4 FTA in 9 games, including Preseason.

I have no problem with him taking high percentage shots like that over throwing something up at the rim to try and draw a foul. I felt like he avoided contact a bit in preseason, but he is seeking it more now when necessary. Around 1:05 you can see him go right into Vanvleet for what should have been an and 1 opportunity.

He averaged almost 7 ft attempts at Washington and I have no doubt once he gets completely comfortable out there and more aggressive that we will see a lot more ft opportunities for him. Especially now that his ft stroke looks sound.

GelbeWand09 · Post #648 » by **GelbeWand09** » Wed Oct 30, 2019 12:55 pm

PrimeThyme wrote:
GelbeWand09 wrote:
PrimeThyme wrote:
Spoiler:

Can we just appreciate how easy he made this look? Fultz has a natural feel for the game you just can't teach. The combination of size, handle, instinct, court vision, and ability to finish at the rim is special. Not to mention the fact that he hasn't really played basketball in two years either and has less than 40 NBA games under his belt.

For me his ability to get his shot off & creating space for him self, because of his handle & herky jerky moves is great, but one of the reason he cant get to the ft line too. We have seen against Toronto, how important it is, when your PG/main ballhandler gets to the line in close games.
I'm really happy about his start so far, even more after the rusty preseason. But the ft thing, is the element i really wanna see from him later in the season. So far 4 FTA in 9 games, including Preseason.

I have no problem with him taking high percentage shots like that over throwing something up at the rim to try and draw a foul. I felt like he avoided contact a bit in preseason, but he is seeking it more now when necessary. Around 1:05 you can see him go right into Vanvleet in what should have been an and 1 opportunity.

He averaged almost 7 ft attempts at Washington and I have no doubt once he gets completely comfortable out there and more aggressive that we will see a lot more ft opportunities for him. Especially now that his ft stroke looks sound.

Yea that finish was great to see, i jumped out of my chair :lol:

. Its just something i wanna see improvement over the season, because our whole team can't get to the line since our rebuild started & he got the best skills to change that a bit.

swarlesbarkley · Post #649 » by **swarlesbarkley** » Wed Oct 30, 2019 2:11 pm

PrimeThyme wrote:
Spoiler:

Can we just appreciate how easy he made this look? Fultz has a natural feel for the game you just can't teach. The combination of size, handle, instinct, court vision, and ability to finish at the rim is special. Not to mention the fact that he hasn't really played basketball in two years either and has less than 40 NBA games under his belt.

Pssht, every NBA point guard can split 2 defenders, get into the lane, do a hard eurostep, and land a perfect floater over a big man effortlessly.

That play was more impressive than any of his dunks or 3s. Seems like he could do that on nearly every play if he want, or if the d takes it away, he'll find the open guy.

zaymon · Post #650 » by **zaymon** » Wed Oct 30, 2019 3:38 pm

Through his first 3 games Fultz looked better than i expected. His feel for the game is special. Those passes he makes are something we havent seen here for decades. I love DJ but Fultz just makes things happen from nothing while Dj mostly needs some kind of defensive error from the opponent. Markelle has a ton of time to improve his shooting and his ft are propably better than ever. Its hard not to be excited when kid has eyes at the back of his head

swarlesbarkley · Post #651 » by **swarlesbarkley** » Wed Oct 30, 2019 6:46 pm

I'll be honest, I was really high on Fultz as soon as we got him but I still didn't expect him to make 3 3s in first 3 games. Yeah, it's a low bar, but it's significant.

zaymon · Post #652 » by **zaymon** » Wed Oct 30, 2019 6:57 pm

Fournier just said in pregame interview that Fultz is special and they are all learning how to play with him. Evan is not quick to make praise so that quote is impressive. We can add Clifford interviews where he told many times Fultz is best player on the floor for us and its so hard not to be excited. If we aquired our primary creator by giving Simmons and 2nd round pick i am just stunned. We missed on Embiid, Porzingis, Doncic, Young could it be luck is on our side once again?

fendilim · Post #653 » by **fendilim** » Thu Oct 31, 2019 12:01 pm

All this praise on fultz makes me think if management thinks its all confidence about fultz and has required personnel to praise him.

Its evident he is a really talented player but how often they say it seems to make me curious.

nicnac215 · Post #654 » by **nicnac215** » Thu Oct 31, 2019 12:36 pm

zaymon wrote:Fournier just said in pregame interview that Fultz is special and they are all learning how to play with him. Evan is not quick to make praise so that quote is impressive. We can add Clifford interviews where he told many times Fultz is best player on the floor for us and its so hard not to be excited. If we aquired our primary creator by giving Simmons and 2nd round pick i am just stunned. We missed on Embiid, Porzingis, Doncic, Young could it be luck is on our side once again?

I would add JJJ to players we missed on too. JJJ and Isaac would be down right dirty and to think we could have traded up and got him from Memphis

Post #655 » by **Knightro** » Thu Oct 31, 2019 1:22 pm

nicnac215 wrote:I would add JJJ to players we missed on too. JJJ and Isaac would be down right dirty and to think we could have traded up and got him from Memphis

These sort of things are unfair to assume.

Blast the Magic for their decision to take Bamba all you want, but suggesting they could have traded up for a player when there's literally evidence to suggest Memphis wasn't anything but locked into JJJ is unfair to the people making the decisions.

PrimeThyme · Post #656 » by **PrimeThyme** » Thu Oct 31, 2019 1:43 pm

fendilim wrote:All this praise on fultz makes me think if management thinks its all confidence about fultz and has required personnel to praise him.

Its evident he is a really talented player but how often they say it seems to make me curious.

I think you're reading way too far into it. I highly doubt that management has given the players instructions from up top to praise Fultz. When players like Vuc/Evan were asked about Fultz at media day they were honest about him and just hadn't been around him or seen him play.

I think it really just comes down to him being a talented player with a skill set we haven't had on this team. Not to mention the fact he is only 21 and this is basically his rookie season. If we can see the talent he has and effect on the game he has as fans watching it on TV I'm sure the guys practicing with him every day and actually out there playing with him can see it.

After the Toronto game Cliff said he wasn't surprised to see how well he played because he does it every day at practice. I truly believe that and think he is just scratching the surface of what we will see from him this year.

Xatticus · Post #657 » by **Xatticus** » Thu Oct 31, 2019 3:44 pm

nicnac215 wrote:
zaymon wrote:Fournier just said in pregame interview that Fultz is special and they are all learning how to play with him. Evan is not quick to make praise so that quote is impressive. We can add Clifford interviews where he told many times Fultz is best player on the floor for us and its so hard not to be excited. If we aquired our primary creator by giving Simmons and 2nd round pick i am just stunned. We missed on Embiid, Porzingis, Doncic, Young could it be luck is on our side once again?

I would add JJJ to players we missed on too. JJJ and Isaac would be down right dirty and to think we could have traded up and got him from Memphis

A lot of teams supposedly wanted to trade up for JJJ and it didn't happen. You have to think that Memphis was uninterested or that the cost was prohibitive.

We do know that the Doncic pick was available, but we don't know that we had the assets to make it happen. It seems likely that we would've had the assets to make it happen if we had tanked a bit harder, but we didn't. It is what it is.

thelead · Post #658 » by **thelead** » Thu Oct 31, 2019 4:00 pm

We baby every freaking young player while other teams throw them out to the wolves. If he’s healthy he should be getting more opportunities. Especially with this offensively anemic team.

yoyojw17 · Post #659 » by **yoyojw17** » Thu Oct 31, 2019 4:25 pm

Xatticus wrote:
nicnac215 wrote:
zaymon wrote:Fournier just said in pregame interview that Fultz is special and they are all learning how to play with him. Evan is not quick to make praise so that quote is impressive. We can add Clifford interviews where he told many times Fultz is best player on the floor for us and its so hard not to be excited. If we aquired our primary creator by giving Simmons and 2nd round pick i am just stunned. We missed on Embiid, Porzingis, Doncic, Young could it be luck is on our side once again?

I would add JJJ to players we missed on too. JJJ and Isaac would be down right dirty and to think we could have traded up and got him from Memphis

A lot of teams supposedly wanted to trade up for JJJ and it didn't happen. You have to think that Memphis was uninterested or that the cost was prohibitive.

We do know that the Doncic pick was available, but we don't know that we had the assets to make it happen. It seems likely that we would've had the assets to make it happen if we had tanked a bit harder, but we didn't. It is what it is.

Or won a couple more games.... we could have been sacramento.

but needless to say.... the odd might have changed for sommmmmmme unforeseen reason. lol

Post #660 » by **Bensational** » Thu Oct 31, 2019 5:13 pm

fendilim wrote:All this praise on fultz makes me think if management thinks its all confidence about fultz and has required personnel to praise him.

Its evident he is a really talented player but how often they say it seems to make me curious.

They probably say it so frequently because it's true, and our team hasn't had anyone with the kind of star potential he has. Hell, we haven't had anyone who can successfully drive into the paint to get a good look/make a handoff pass since Payton left, so what Fultz is doing must seem like magic to them.