MagicMatic wrote:pepe1991 wrote:People pay way too much attention what pages like ringer are saying.
That's same Ringer who had article " Harris or Gordon" and drooled over Gordon. Harris ended up having almost 4 years in a row with 20 ppg, 7 rebounds ,3 assists with <56% TS.
In 2019, Ringer had " Are we sure the Magic won't make a leap"
https://www.theringer.com/nba/2019/8/21/20825766/are-we-sure-orlando-magicGordon can do everything else on the court well. After averaging a career high in points two seasons ago, Gordon made another important leap last season: He became a legitimate playmaker, averaging a career high in assists (3.7 per game) while barely increasing his turnovers (2.1 per game). He can clean the defensive glass and start a fast break himself, and he can pass the ball out of the pick-and-roll in the half court. According to the tracking numbers at Synergy Sports, Gordon was in the 53rd percentile of players in shots he generated for himself and his teammates.
The result is that Gordon is now one of the most well-rounded players in the league. He can defend players at all five positions and also score, shoot, pass, and rebound. The only players to average as many points, rebounds, assists, steals, and 3-point attempts per game last season as Gordon are Joel Embiid and Karl-Anthony Towns. This may not be the best version of Gordon, either. A 23-year-old with his physical tools who has already shown the work ethic to improve is a good bet to keep getting better.
You would thought they were talking about young Tracy, not at that point 5 years pro, who peaked at 17ppg and below average efficiency (53% TS).
There is no reason why any sports site needs to "teach " you what you can see with your healthy eyes.
Except people were talking about the Bamba stuff before the Ringer even wrote anything. They just reaffirmed what 90% of us were already thinking.
Bamba wasn't able to play. First he did not show up for preseason, wasn't ready for season, than he had back issue with hit in back in a game, than he got back into covid 19 protocol as contact.
He returnd in active rotation late in January.
People just don't like facts, rather pretend he has been out for 6 months because coach hates him. In reality, he got like 12 DNP-CDs in his whole career.
You can argue playing 30 min will somehow make him better, i would argue playing 30 min won't make you any better than playnig 10-15 min.
Tobias Harris averaged 11 min a game in 42 games of rookie year, lower than Bamba.
In second year he averaged 11,6 mpg for Bucks (4,9 ppg) and second day after a trade was ready to put up 36 mpg (17 ppg ) with Orlando. Can you argue he didn't develop in rookie year because he wasn't getting 30mpg? Ehh...
Joel Embiid didn't even play first 2 nba seasons and in third he looked like allstar.
Noel and Jah averaged +30 mpg during his 2 years off, and yet, Embiid was better in first second of nba action than Jah and Noel ever.
Players do have some learning curve during in game action, but most of the development happends behind close doors and at practice and indvidiual workouts during offtime.
But fans always get to most basic- chicken-egg argument "doesn't play because of it he can't develop = doesn't develop that's why he doesn't play"
Issue is level of talent, most young players that "need lot of time" simply -don't have that much talent to being with. Word "project" was literally brought up by Sam Presti after he drafted complete bust Hasheem Thabeet to deflect critics from him.
I've said more lot of times that i don't care if Bamba gets 18-25 mpg a game, i just don't trust his body nor i belive he can handle that loud, also since he is 3rd year player who turns 23 in 3 months i don't think he will ever be anything more than part time starter / backup /third string C so i don't care if they DNP him for rest of a year. I'm done developing future backups .
