Exum's Highlights from last night #2

[Game6Conley]

Now that we've seen how his game looks vs NBA competition, Ive gotta ask;

on a scale of 1-10

what would you rate his awareness?

 

[Dr. Jones]

Now that we've seen how his game looks vs NBA competition, Ive gotta ask;

on a scale of 1-10

what would you rate his awareness?

9.1

 

[NAOS]

definitely in the 9-10 range. That's his most impressive attribute, IMO. He's Rondo-esq in this facet of his game.... just gets it.

 

[Stifle Tower]

Quin isn't encouraging the team to take mid range shots. Locke said Quin had really stressed the importance of either easy points in the paint, or step out to take the 3 pointer.



Exum seems to be sticking to Quin's teaching... unlike Trey & Burks who seems to averaging at least 1-2 "foot on the line" shot per game.

And with the exception of the game winner against Cleveland, so is Hayward. Very interesting stat is that Gordon is averaging about the same number of points, shooting 5% higher overall, but 5% lower on his 3's through 6 games vs. last season. He has also taken 75 shots through 6 games as opposed to 97 last year. Essentially the same scoring averaging (18.0 vs. 18.3) on 22 fewer shots! Free throw attempts are the same, although he's made 7 more this year, so that accounts for 1 pt/per game on his average. So same output, but efficeiency is WAY up. Assists, rebounds, steals, blocks are also pretty similar to last season as are minutes/per.

 

[8]

9.1

And on the rookie scale - 11

 

[stitches]

Now that we've seen how his game looks vs NBA competition, Ive gotta ask;

on a scale of 1-10

what would you rate his awareness?

9.1

In offense, yes... very high. In defense he needs more work - he seems to get surprised by screens relatively frequently. That's part of the reason why he's having problem with those screens - doesn't recognize them coming soon enough, doesn't have the perfect technique for fighting through them and he's lacking the strength to do it effectively. This to me is one of his main defensive problems right now.