I need Walt/Harkless minutes.
Walt Clayton is a Dog
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Add Harkless to the Dawg Pound.
Just watch Clayton's defensive rebound at 11.24 left in the 2nd quarter. There was nobody to fight: he just darted under the basket and, surrounded by our 3 bigs, snatched that juicy rebound. There were no Kings players anywhere in sight. It looked pretty bad, TBH.
Good. Like I said, and pretty much any coach would say, I'd rather my players fight for rebounds than not. If Walt just did that for the easy boards, thats one thing, but he has shown he gives that energy on a lot of rebound opportunities.
Except Clayton did not push pace after that rebound at 11.24 in the 2nd: he rarely does it (unlike Keyonte). He snatched the rebound away from our bigs and then slowly walked towards the midcourt line: Walter was the very last player to cross it. That's why I was so miffed by that whole sequence: his single goal was to record an extra rebound by taking it away from the bigs. Just watch the tape. And, judging by the appearance of this topic, it did work for some people.
I really hope it was just a brain fart and that he will have a conversation about it. Players like Westbrook are some of my least favorite ones.
You must be smoking that good weed because that Clayton rebound came right after he almost had a steal then he got in there for a rebound. Is he supposed to sit back watch? Not like he snatched it out of his teammates hand, he simply got a very good rebound. Watch that **** again cause you're talking some serious **** for real.
Yes? He indeed almost got a steal but then the Kings swung it to the corner and shot a three. At that moment Clayton was standing at top of the key, out of the play and ball watching, while around the basket were FOUR Jazz players and no Sacramento players. There was not a chance that the Kings would get that rebound. And at the moment of the shot Clayton did not try to leak forward to start a fast break. He did not wait for the ball at the top of the key. Instead, he ran like a madmen in the thicket of the Jazz players under the basket and snatched a rebound while being surrounded by the rest of the Jazz. After securing that rebound he slowly walked up the court.
It was the uncontested rebound with several bigs ready to grab it. There was zero need for the point guard to ran back under the basket to get it unless the guard is Russel Westbrook. Again, it could be just Clayton being carried away in the excitement of the game, so we will see how he rebounds in the upcoming games.
WCJ was very active on the offensive glass and trying to step in the passing lanes and get steals, and he should be definitely praised for that. But in college he was a solid but unremarkable rebounder so it would be very strange to expect for him to excel at rebounding in the NBA were the players are much bigger and stronger.
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What?
Keyonte literally walks the ball up all the time, letting the defense settle, and Hardy loses his mind.
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I think jazznik is just in a mood to argue with people right now. Seems to get upset with positive comments that are being made and wants to make mountains out molehills.
I had recently taken him off ignore but am currently being reminded that he belongs there.
Gonna go ahead and do that now.