Dang, Al struggling. Thought he’d turned the corner a bit. Need to shake this one off and get some confidence again.
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That’s 44 points in the second half. And there’s still 5+ to play.
That call on KD would suggest that if a player is in the restricted area an offensive player can literally do whatever they want to the defender.
Pippen walks that tightrope between crafty and gutless foul seeking better than anyone in recent memory
I want to kidney punch the son of a bitch that clipped him with the scooter.
We came
We saw
We boog'd on dem dores
We saw
We boog'd on dem dores
Seemed disinterested tonight but the squad had this one covered no biggie.
If that kid had his Dad's size and length he would be a serious problem. He's legit.
But he wasn’t forcing bad shots, so I don’t feel like he had a bad night.
The inexplicable turnovers are what are hard to understand. Makes true freshman mistakes at times.
I wish he would work on his post moves more. I think he could dominate by playing closer to the basket
Eh, can't say much on that, but we need the guy who hit him to have fully operational kidneys as he's a key piece to our championship puzzle.
I'm a huge flanny defender, but 6 turnovers and 4 fouls makes for a rough line with only 2 points. I think we saw last time out that he's capable of playing really well again now, but it may take the next two weeks to get him back into anything that resembles consistency. The great news is we don't need him to be the same 15+ ppg guy he used to be to be great. The only thing we truly need from his is to be an elite wing defender that we can put on other team's best offensive player for stretches. If he can also be capable of attacking the basket at times to score or get to the line when the offense is sputtering, that's huge too.
The internet told me it was Wendell and if so I forgive him. I forgive any HYG in our rotation regardless but no matter Al still got a few weeks to get right. He was admittedly very sloppy tonight but he looked good last game so ima still ride for the young hunk.
Jesus. Just read through the HYG thread over there. We are blessed to have the Greg.
All I read was the first page & you’d think Barbee was still head corch. Some real stupid haters over there.
@Fatz Geronimo - give us your thoughts on Flanny. I know those turnovers last night were bad. I don't see him not taking many shots as a big deal, especially last night when Jabari and Walker were tearing it up. Guys on the AIDZ board were saying he is a cancer and lazy, etc... I just don't see it. I feel like he has played pretty good defense. Would like to see him grab a few more boards a game, but just don't see him as this negative impact that they do. Am I blinded by his dashing good looks, or are these guys complete morons?
Reminded me of when Chuma finally started to take over. It was beautiful to see. A game like that re-establishes the offense needs to go through him most of the time. That will help reduce some of the ridiculous shots KD and Wen sometimes take. He has set the tone.
idk - it’s tough… most people probably don’t wanna read all this but I ended up going way deeper than I intended so I’m just gonna spoiler my long winded ass
I think a lot of the hate he gets is because if he was playing like a first rounder - like his ceiling and as an ideal fit with this roster - we would cakewalk to a title… if he was a guaranteed 13/6/3 with ability to switch 1-4 and shoot 36%+ from 3, just cancel the season and give us the trophy
so people want that so badly they irrationally hate him because he’s not there yet - for reasons completely out of his control
I’ve never been worried about him - I knew it would be ugly dropping him into the middle of things when he had literally played ZERO minutes with our 5? best players, depending on where you rank Jaylin… it was always going to be far, far more difficult than people wanted to believe
so I never cared that he wasn’t playing great in January, only that he showed flashes - and he did… so I don’t care if it was ugly X% of them time
same with February - I’ve seen him slalom through multiple defenders in the lane, I’ve seen him catch & shoot with confidence, I’ve seen him run 2 man game with Walker/Jabari and 3 man game with both
so that’s the good… the bad is, there has been 0 consistency - there’s been nothing linear about his performance, which is scary because we’re edging close to the danger zone… he still has time to get to that point, but it’s running out
all I’m looking for from him the next 3 games is - you don’t have to play great, you just have to show that something about your game is reliable and ready to build upon… it can be easy shit… catch the ball and be decisive without getting yourself in trouble - either drive it, kick it, or shoot it, I legitimately do not give a shit what you do with it as long as you’re not putting yourself or the ball in a dangerous spot
that’s it - that’s all I need to see… can he do that for 3 straight games? because if he can, now it’s just baby steps to get him to a spot where he’s either knocking down shots consistently or attacking the basket against moving defenses… getting him from ok to game changer is a small leap - it can happen very quickly… the hope would be that you’re already at “ok” by now, and then you’re just waiting for the switch to flip sometime in the next 3 weeks
but we’re not at “ok” yet, and last night was the first night all season that I started to get a little worried… because we’re late enough into February that now the clock is ticking
so people want that so badly they irrationally hate him because he’s not there yet - for reasons completely out of his control
I’ve never been worried about him - I knew it would be ugly dropping him into the middle of things when he had literally played ZERO minutes with our 5? best players, depending on where you rank Jaylin… it was always going to be far, far more difficult than people wanted to believe
so I never cared that he wasn’t playing great in January, only that he showed flashes - and he did… so I don’t care if it was ugly X% of them time
same with February - I’ve seen him slalom through multiple defenders in the lane, I’ve seen him catch & shoot with confidence, I’ve seen him run 2 man game with Walker/Jabari and 3 man game with both
so that’s the good… the bad is, there has been 0 consistency - there’s been nothing linear about his performance, which is scary because we’re edging close to the danger zone… he still has time to get to that point, but it’s running out
all I’m looking for from him the next 3 games is - you don’t have to play great, you just have to show that something about your game is reliable and ready to build upon… it can be easy shit… catch the ball and be decisive without getting yourself in trouble - either drive it, kick it, or shoot it, I legitimately do not give a shit what you do with it as long as you’re not putting yourself or the ball in a dangerous spot
that’s it - that’s all I need to see… can he do that for 3 straight games? because if he can, now it’s just baby steps to get him to a spot where he’s either knocking down shots consistently or attacking the basket against moving defenses… getting him from ok to game changer is a small leap - it can happen very quickly… the hope would be that you’re already at “ok” by now, and then you’re just waiting for the switch to flip sometime in the next 3 weeks
but we’re not at “ok” yet, and last night was the first night all season that I started to get a little worried… because we’re late enough into February that now the clock is ticking
Really enjoyed that & I guess like I’m everyone else, in that anytime he does a couple of positive things back to back, I think the light is coming on. I’m gonna still keep expecting it to happen until it never does I suppose.
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