but, for a 19 year old – dude is seriously buffed…and, i’m a fan of his personality so far…lord knows it’ll get tested working for uncle jimmy d…

like iggy (did he have some other nickname in college?) – a lot…who knows for sure, but, seems like he might be able to find a spot out on the floor…15 guys on the roster though – who really knows what fiz will do…

i’m.so glad mitch is ours…I don’t know, honestly I’m not so hopeful to see a big improvement this year from either frank or knox…hoping to see progress from DSJ and trier…

no doubt there are going to be some head scratching rotations once the season begins…

like everyone – I can see mitch and RJ in the starting 5, but, if kevin is out there to start the year – something is very wrong…

seems like it would benefit most concerned to get time on the court and tv…

shit, most of us crazy people tune in to the stuff….

Thomas B.
June 23, 2011 at 8:49 pm
Oh God, we are going to end up with Marcus Morris. Shoot me now.

Welcome to New York, where the more things change, the less things change…

(Also, Latke! You guaranteed it, wtf! (Latke was typically a good poster, iirc. In fact, I think that may have been Max Cohen’s handle before he started contributing here. He was off his game that day, though, haha!)

Smart had a .568 TS% this year and led the league in steal%. He’s a very valuable player.

I don’t disagree, but I largely meant on offense. The TS% has come a long way from his normal high 400s mark, but he’s still a low-usage guy. I would be happy to have him on my team if it were already a contender.

16.9 pts
10.6 reb
3.3 asts
0.9 stls
1.2 blks
36% 2p fg

aside from the 2p fg% it’s a very good line… and for comparisons sake here’s the numbers for another guy in summer league not that long ago…

15.9 pts
11.3 reb
8.1 asts
1.5 stls
0.7 blks
37% 2p fg

that guy is ben simmons…. i’m not saying he’s gonna be like ben simmons… but the shooting like i’ve said is not that big a deal…. what’s more important.. not that any of this stuff is all that important… are the other basic things… and if you can do the basic things of filling up the box score then you can’t be all that bad….

and i think the key numbers to watch for on rj are gonna be 1) 2p fg% which is always a key filter 2)stls and blks .. stls are a bit low and hopefully gets over 1.0 during the season and 3)3pa … he’s still getting used to the nba line and he’s very consistently short on almost all his misses there…. and i just hope he restricts himself to just catch and shoot opportunities… those looks are way better for him than the others….

if we get the version of rj that we got in the last couple of games that guy is a pretty good and pretty valuable player… but the first two… well hopefully we can all just laugh about it in a couple of years….

Marcus Smart is the only dud among the 10 players chosen to this year’s teams.

Smart had a .568 TS% this year and led the league in steal%. He’s a very valuable player.

Idk, Iggy seems to have a good sense of when to pass/quick decision making in general. He’s not a good passer per se, But he keeps his head up and only seems to go in when he feels he has the advantage. And he gets a block and a steal a game usually. Not super impactful on defense but not that bad either. He’s pleasantly surprised me.