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Who will be our leading scorer?

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dalamon said:
Really good thread tho. Are we gonna repeat the "Hayward = focal point of offense" experiment again this year? Exum is a year away from being the focal point of our offense IMO. Would love him to put up Burke numbers at better percentages.
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A year my ***.. Foreign players don't come in after sitting a year and being young and come in and become a force. Its going take the kid 3 or 4 years before you wil see a force. He is a kid for Christ sake and is now playing against men.
 
Qman said:
Kanter is going to struggle with this offense. Everyone needs to move the ball quickly and effectively. He tends to hold the ball. So Quinn will rightly limit his minutes until he can figure it out.
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I can't disagree about what you said here about Kanter. I would be very surprised if he doesn't improve his passing this year. If you look over last season, you will see that Kanter started passing the ball much more and much more effectively as well.

You have to remember that Corbin wanted the ball on the low block with the bigs. Who mentored Kanter? Big Al. I'd say that he did a fine job of trying to duplicate what he saw from Al and what he thought Corbin wanted from him.

With the new system I think that Kanter will be a great ball moving option. I think he'll spend a fair amount of time down low but he'll probably get plenty of touches from the outside as well.
 
Burks scoring will catch up to Hay when he can use the pick efficiently. If he doesn't make up the jump in next 2 years he won't probably be more than a bench player on a contending team.
 
Hotttnickkk said:
As long as he takes less than 2 shots doing it I think he'll be fine. That'll still be better than Hayward who had a 41.3% shooting percentage last year.
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Shocking. I had literally not heard one thing on this board about Hayward's bad shooting year. Thanks for breaking the story to us, gumshoe.
 
I will say this, if Hayward is the leading scorer next season...Quin Snyder isn't the coach we're hoping he is. There are other players on this team that are more offensively gifted than Hayward and I believe Snyder will find a way to tap into it (Burks/Kanter).

Besides, I think there's too much pressure on Hayward with the whole contract thing for him to have a good season and lead the team in scoring. Too mentally fragile to take on that kind of responsibility/pressure. Money can change a lot of things, but it can change your mental toughness.

btw, I voted Burks. Give him the playing time, and he'll put up the points. IMO, he's the most efficient scorer on the team given his knack for getting to the line...
 
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