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Game Thread Dec 28, 2023 06:00PM MT: Jazz at Pelicans

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Pros:
+ Our starting five (or any lineup with Dunn, Sexton, Lauri and Walker) were pretty competitive against their starting five. Although Valanciunas helped a lot by killing any momentum they were about to have.
+ Herb didn't give Lauri anything for free, but Lauri still contributed until the very end despite having no legs left.
+ On the offensive end, Sexton has made great strides in getting rid of bad habits. His drives led constantly to a good shot selection or to a kick-out, and when neither of those were available, he kept his dribble alive.

Cons:
- The second unit was struggling big time. My favorite possession was when KO and Walker were both standing at the dunker spot, and Clarkson, Keyonte and THT took turns taking a dribble or two and passing the ball to the next guy. Not a single step was taken without the ball.
 
In his defense one was a heave. He’s just not hitting the outside shot as much as you’d hope. Only his second game back but there’s some evidence building that his shot isn’t as good as many of us think it should be.
His shot is just fine and will start falling.
 
Pros:
+ Our starting five (or any lineup with Dunn, Sexton, Lauri and Walker) were pretty competitive against their starting five. Although Valanciunas helped a lot by killing any momentum they were about to have.
+ Herb didn't give Lauri anything for free, but Lauri still contributed until the very end despite having no legs left.
+ On the offensive end, Sexton has made great strides in getting rid of bad habits. His drives led constantly to a good shot selection or to a kick-out, and when neither of those were available, he kept his dribble alive.

Cons:
- The second unit was struggling big time. My favorite possession was when KO and Walker were both standing at the dunker spot, and Clarkson, Keyonte and THT took turns taking a dribble or two and passing the ball to the next guy. Not a single step was taken without the ball.
Really good summary
 
His shot is just fine and will start falling.
36/32 splits are not just fine. He;s shooting 67% from the FT line in December. It's been awful.

Good lord people. You can point out something bad a rookie is doing. This crazy need to paint everything in a positive light is ridiculous and just completely unserious behavior.
 
36/32 splits are not just fine. He;s shooting 67% from the FT line in December. It's been awful.

Good lord people. You can point out something bad a rookie is doing. This crazy need to paint everything in a positive light is ridiculous and just completely unserious behavior.

Yeah, he’s been pretty terrible shooting the ball. I don’t know how someone can say it’s fine when he has the worst TS% in the league.
 
36/32 splits are not just fine. He;s shooting 67% from the FT line in December. It's been awful.

Good lord people. You can point out something bad a rookie is doing. This crazy need to paint everything in a positive light is ridiculous and just completely unserious behavior.
The form looks good but he hasn’t been a dead eye shooter in college or the pros. I believe he will be a good shooter but with each game he struggles my faith drops a bit.

To be a good shooter the ball must go in the hoop. There are plenty of guys with nice looking jumpers that don’t go in enough.
 
The form looks good but he hasn’t been a dead eye shooter in college or the pros. I believe he will be a good shooter but with each game he struggles my faith drops a bit.

To be a good shooter the ball must go in the hoop. There are plenty of guys with nice looking jumpers that don’t go in enough.
Yeah, it's always going to look good.

I'm not panicked, like I said, I still think he has bright future, but at some point he has to start putting together better games for me to be excited like that about him.
 
Keyonte will turn it around. Simone looked like complete *** last year (like, halfway out of the NBA), and he's a full grown-up.

- George

Lots of players who look like **** continue looking like **** though.

But I do think Keyonte will be okay. I don't think he'll ever be an all-star personally, but he has the tools to be an average starter.
 
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