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Jordan Clarkson appreciation Thread

I appreciate Clarkson.

It's important to remember these high moments as he's going through his low moments. Over his entire career he's had way more high moments for us than low moments. He also has a long enough playing history to know that when he's going through a rough stretch it's only a matter of time before he turns it around.
 
TheGoldStandard said:
Clarkson is clutch, no doubt, but he is also a turnover machine. His poor decision making results in leading the team in turnovers by a LARGE margin. He had 5 last night. Most of his TOs are headscratchers. (Most of the other key folks has 0-1, with Collins and Olynyk having 2, which is amazingly low overall for the pace of this game with an OT period.) Throwing right to defenders, overdribbling to steals or like last night, losing the handle (went out of bounds).

He really needs to be the 6th man type that gets the ball low in the shot clock. That is where he excels. Part of this is we need a better floor general, part of it is giving these guys too much lease to run outside of the sets. I like to see Clarkson get the ball at the end of game and short shot clock scenarios. That is where his value shines. Asking him to be a primary ball handler and distributor leads to disaster.

Clarkson shot amazingly high percentages last night but was still a plus 5. Walker was a plus 15.
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Yeah, that’s valid and why I agree that his role is best as a sixth man type and as an iso option in crunch time. It’s kind of remarkable that he never seems to turn it over when the game is on the line and it matters most. He’s kind of in the mold of the other JC, Jamaal Crawford and I imagine one of the best one on one players in the league. He is definitely not a floor general that is good at distribution. This is where he runs into trouble imo. His one on one abilities combined with his no conscience Constitution makes him a valuable weapon used properly nonetheless.
 
HermanG said:
I think its easier to love JC now that Hardy is not giving him automatic closing duties but rides the hot hand.

One reason we are good is we have no egoes to pamper. Steph has recently had a few absolute stinker 4th Qs where he took a lot of bad shots and missed them, but you have to ride him regardless.

GSW has some of the best clutch game winners of all time.... yet:

Utah Jazz #1 in clutch minute points (11.9), #1 in clutch 3P% (53.1), #4 in clutch winning% (66.7)

GSW #14 in points (8.4), #8 in 3P% (35.1), #14 in win% (50.0).

Utah has 15 clutch games and GSW has 26, so decent samples.
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#1 clutch minute points - how cool is that?
 
HermanG said:
One reason we are good is we have no egoes to pamper. Steph has recently had a few absolute stinker 4th Qs where he took a lot of bad shots and missed them, but you have to ride him regardless.
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What a strange way to frame having Steph Curry on your team. "Oh man, sucks that we have to play Steph Curry"
 
Douchebag K said:
i don't see the point really What is keeping him going to do for us
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He's good in the locker-room and he's under contract for another year. I thought he was having a pretty good season, but the foot injury held him back.

Hopefully he can come back healthy next year, and play well enough to have some value as an expiring contract for a playoff team looking to offload money while getting back someone who might not suck for a playoff run.
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
He's good in the locker-room and he's under contract for another year. I thought he was having a pretty good season, but the foot injury held him back.

Hopefully he can come back healthy next year, and play well enough to have some value as an expiring contract for a playoff team looking to offload money while getting back someone who might not suck for a playoff run.
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maybe. The only reason i can see for keeping him is there's just zero value in a trade for him.
 
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