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Saint Cy of JFC said:
People seem to agree with me this is what happened.

What say you @Ferguson_Mellochill ?
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I still had KqWin on ignore, and I'm catching up. What's the question here? GG's talent is creating separation for a guy who's 6'9" / 220 lbs and decently athletic. He's able to create looks for himself. There's value in that. How many of those shots he makes matters, but it's hard to draw conclusions about how well he'll make shots 3 years from now.

In the end, the question is whether he can be a high-level scorer at the NBA level. We won't know this based on Summer League or even the G-league. He's got the skills to do it though. He's also a guy I think who wants to be good.

Now that we're no longer having violent pre-draft debates, I'll take guys off ignore.
 
From what I've seen GG has a great attitude and suspect the immaturity thing is even overblown. For as I know all this spurred from an IG video where someone asked why they weren't getting him the ball and he said "Man I don't know" Not the best answer but cmon.
 
FYI -- I'm overreacting to summer league with GG Jackson because it's part of my schtick. He's got a long road to actually get playing time on a team as deep as Memphis.
 
GG Jazz Cabbage said:
From what I've seen GG has a great attitude and suspect the immaturity thing is even overblown. For as I know all this spurred from an IG video where someone asked why they weren't getting him the ball and he said "Man I don't know" Not the best answer but cmon.
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I'm not sure what all counted against GG in the pre-draft process, but it seems to be the same issue that Talen Horton-Tucker had and Brandon Boston had. They were young and were inefficient as freshmen. That said, GG still should have gone in the 1st round.

This was also a deep draft. Guys like Max Lewis, Sidy Cissoko and Leonard Miller were all 1st-round quality players. If GG had not jumped up a draft class, it would have helped him in a number of ways. He'd be older and more mature. He probably wouldn't go to a program like South Carolina at the last minute. And also, he'd be considered a top-10 guy in next year's weaker draft class.
 
Let the overreactions flow. I actually want to see “gaslight” become a thing here lmao.
 
Elizah Huge said:
Isn’t that what you did though? You made it seem like others weren’t remembering correctly.
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They weren't. It was literally a made up scenario by Cy . If I made up a scenario about you, can I then say you are gaslighting me if you said that wasn't true?

That's also not how Cy is using that term anyways lol. This is a direct quote:

Saint Cy of JFC said:
We definitely had people on here gaslighting us that his footwork/ability to get shots off wasnt a talent.
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We have a disagreement on the value of GG's shot creation. It's not about remembering or not remembering if this made up scenario was actually real. I don't consider GG's shot creation great "talent" because it doesn't amount to good offense. I would say something similar about Clowney's 3 point shooting, for example. I love Noah Clowney, but I am definitely not calling him a talented shooter because he happed to take a bunch of 3's and shot poorly. I think people can have disagreements on what constitutes talent without it being gaslighting.
 
Ferguson_Mellochill said:
FYI -- I'm overreacting to summer league with GG Jackson because it's part of my schtick. He's got a long road to actually get playing time on a team as deep as Memphis.
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One of the prospects that I thought was similarish to GG was Ziaire Williams. Now that they're on the same team, it will be interesting to see how that pecking order shapes out. MEM has so many guys. Santi, Roddy, Ziaire, Laravia, Konchar.....It would be hard for any rookie to break into MEM's rotation. The G-League will be good for GG....but it will test his commitment. Playing well in the G-League as a leading player isn't the same as cracking an NBA rotation so he will have to focus on doing the right things.
 
Ferguson_Mellochill said:
Trey Lyles was amazing in Summer League after his rookie season. Also, Deron Williams was complete *** in his first Summer League.
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I have 2006 RMR games recorded on video tapes where D-Will was so good they shut him down early (it was his 2nd year).
 
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