Mission Accomplished
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We don't need a shooter as much as someone who can play D. We have scorers we just don't have anyone who can Defend.
Does Biyombo=Evans?
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billyshelby
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If Evans played regular 3, he'd get ignored on the perimeter. Just this year, Evans would get the ball on the high post and not know what to do with the ball. The point is his transition to 3 is a pretty big leap at this point. He might get there. But he can definitely be effective as a 4 in the right spots next year. From a practical standpoint, if I'm Ty, I'm telling Jeremy to eat his wheaties and spend 4 hours a day doing squats.
Crazy as it sounds, he should emulate Elson. Elson is solid as an active garbage player, he defends through tenacity, and on offense he's got that 12 foot jumper that serves him well.
Archie Moses
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In the entire what?
If Trevor Ariza and Paul Millsap can become effective jumpshooters, I see no reason why Evans can't. Probably not by next season, but he'll never be a real 4 either. If we're to be excited about Evans as a real piece in the contender puzzle, it's as a giant 3 who will have to hope he has to guard power 3s as little as possible.
However, if he's not to become a viable rotation player, who ****ing cares? I don't know about anyone else, but I don't have much interest in 'developing' a garbage player.
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Trevor Ariza is not an effective jumpshooter, he shoots sub 40%, he is terrible.
If he can be instrumental in winning a championship by hitting 3s (he absolutely did), and people guard him at the perimeter, then that's a success story. He came into the league and didn't have a skill to his name and played himself into a $30 million deal and it's not just because he has long arms.
The 08-09 Playoffs he had an AMAZING 3pt shooting performance (even more so when you consider he has never shot much over 30% in his life) hitting almost half his attempts. Then he got his contact. Since (and before) then, he has never come close to being half as good. He was effectively a one hit wonder. That, or you can contribute his success to playing on a stacked team where no one payed him any defensive attention. He cant even shoot over 40% from the field, or over 30% from 3 and Chris Paul is your PG? Pathetic, but I guess we are getting off-topic. Also, from watching Ariza, he has just flat out terrible shot selection. Evans is a much smarter player, or at least knows his limitations better than Ariza does.
We agree. My point is that Ariza has improved his shot immensely since he didn't have one at all. Breaking him out of his role on the Lakers and trying to turn him into a ballhandler/volume scorer broke him, IMO. But another point I haven't brought up is that Evans form and mechanics are actually a thing of beauty and I firmly believe it's just a matter of game-reps/confidence before he's hitting shots at a good rate.
NAOS
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Evans needs to develop a consistent 12-18 ft jumpshot from anywhere on the floor. If we end up going with a two-guard front, then penetration-and-kickouts will leave him with open looks if he doesn't hesitate. We need to get him looks when he is just standing there, waiting to catch and shoot. Next, he needs to consume the game film on Ronnie Brewer and watch how he worked the baseline. Corner Js, baseline jams, and alley oops could get him an efficient 8-10ppg.
His real meal ticket would come if he could learn to effectively guard the 3. For example, if he could give you a good 8mpg guarding Durant, then he'd have interest from any team in the west for several years to come. I think he was playing pretty solid team defense toward the end of the season.... we'll see....
His real meal ticket would come if he could learn to effectively guard the 3. For example, if he could give you a good 8mpg guarding Durant, then he'd have interest from any team in the west for several years to come. I think he was playing pretty solid team defense toward the end of the season.... we'll see....