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Cody Williams Hype and Appreciation Thread

NAOS_pt2 said:
Cody looked good. Not sure why we have to find opportunities to throw shade at Hendricks. I'm loving his on-ball defense fwiw
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Taylor also has learned to play some basketball. Like last year this time he was struggling to throw outlet passes. Not like Kevin Love outlet passes... run of the mill outlet passes. He can drive a little bit from the baseline and has some ways to score and has made a couple nice passes from that spot. He should not drive down the middle right now (I'm okay with experimenting cuz that is what the season is about)... its an auto-turnover.

I believe in the shot. He had a really bad shooting game in Dallas but was encouraged he got 10 up at least. He has some bad misses when his feet aren't quite set but when he has time he seems to do pretty well.

Also, Cody was awesome in the game against Dallas. I need more of that. I don't think aggression is his nature so he needs to develop some of it and incorporate it into his habits on the court.

I think both guys were great uses of picks and if both hit you have length we've never seen at the 2-4 spots.
 
framer said:
than size and inexperience, things that are the easiest to fix, I don't really have a problem with any of Cody's game righ
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AK tried to fix his body his whole career and couldn’t. Some body types you just can’t put weight on when you’re as active as your every day nba basketball player. He can’t dribble. He’s got to be stationary for the most part to shoot, and has weak handles. Your not worried about those things?
 
Cody is so versatile. He is a coach's dream and can be plugged into any lineup. He has size, defends, looks to pass and involve the teammates, always tries to be in the right place, very deliberate, very coachable... He probably has the highest floor out of all our young guys.

His absolutely worst case would be someone like more athletic Kyle Anderson.
 
Ferguson_Mellochill said:
I'm hoping he can be like a 6'8" version of Latrell Sprewell--a wiry guy who can do a bit of everything and can go into scoring mode when he needs to. He definitely needs to get stronger though before he can start dominating guys, but if he does then look out.

He's not going to be as explosive or bouncy as Paul George.
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I don't know. I don't think he has the muscle needed to lay out his coach.
 
Thee Idiotic Minivan K said:
AK tried to fix his body his whole career and couldn’t. Some body types you just can’t put weight on when you’re as active as your every day nba basketball player. He can’t dribble. He’s got to be stationary for the most part to shoot, and has weak handles. Your not worried about those things?
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Yeah, those hours and hours of video games just never paid of for AK.
 
Thee Idiotic Minivan K said:
AK tried to fix his body his whole career and couldn’t. Some body types you just can’t put weight on when you’re as active as your every day nba basketball player. He can’t dribble. He’s got to be stationary for the most part to shoot, and has weak handles. Your not worried about those things?
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AKs problem, such as it was, wasn't his frame. He actually improved his body immensely from when he was 19.
 
Thee Idiotic Minivan K said:
To a point, but he was never strong enough. Always lost the ball inside and got pushed around.
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Because he flopped to try and get a foul any time he was looked at. That dude was terrible. He put on weight eating junk while playing video games and lost weight being forced to earn his way overpaid paycheck. No idea why a few jazz fans thought he was so great. He had one decent peak season on a very bad team at 22 then it was all downhill and he was pretty useless on any winning team.

Cody isn't in the same conversation as him. They are so different.
 
Ron Mexico said:
Because he flopped to try and get a foul any time he was looked at. That dude was terrible. He put on weight eating junk while playing video games and lost weight being forced to earn his way overpaid paycheck. No idea why a few jazz fans thought he was so great. He had one decent peak season on a very bad team at 22 then it was all downhill and he was pretty useless on any winning team.
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That's not true. Kirilenko led a pretty forgettable Russian national team to the gold medal in Eurobasket 2007. Team Russia won that competition with rival teams being led by prime Nowitzki, Pau Gasol, Tony Parker, Okur and Turkoglu. He finished 5th in PPG, 3rd in rebounds, 1st in steals and 2nd in blocks. Four years later, in 2011, he led the Russian team to the 3rd place in Eurobasket 2011 and CSKA Moscow to the EuroLeague Finals, while he himself won the EuroLeague MVP.

Kirilenko was a unique player: very effective as the team leader but very forgettable when played as the 4th/5th option.
 
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