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nuraman00
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I still think it's funny that Olynyk is in the center of that pic. Again, I'm glad a Boston media outlet made that pic, and not a Utah one.
The Jazz media department needs to be reevaluated. They're not fooling us, at least, with these stats.
I'm not going to suddenly consume more media about these players, because I saw a cool stat about how allsome (intentional) it was that a player had 10+ assists and didn't miss from the field.
They must have taken my post about "you make 100% of the shots you don't miss" way too seriously.
A better stat would be, in the NBA, how many players have achieved that stat? If they expanded the scope to that, and let's say he was one of six players in the past 20.5 years, then maybe that would mean something.
Olynyk just isn't the scorer that the other four are. Nor the rebounder. I think his playmaking is on par though.
I can't think of an easy logical reason to put Kelly in the center.
Yes, the rebounds are the hardest part for him.I agree that the longer he plays, the less efficient he would be, and getting those last the rebounds be harder than spot minutes,
I don’t expect him to average a lot of points, but he averages 8.1 points in 19 minutes. If he were to play 38 minutes, I’m not saying he would average 16 points, but I don’t see that his rate would go much down unless he got tired.
The reason why I say that is because if he is not a focus on the offense when he comes in like Jordan Clarkson is, for example, so, being in a longer time, won’t make a difference, because his role would still be the same.
So again, unless he becomes less efficient because of stamina or something, his points rate per minute should stay static. And I’m already assuming that he hasn’t fouled out because I’m talking about a set number of minutes played hypothetically, not fouling out or having unlimited fouls, I suppose.
He has had a lot of threes and his passing has been mentioned. so it seems that just the rebounds are in question.
Maybe the intern wouldn't have minded if he blocked out other people.The answer is obvious on why he was placed in the middle. Some intern got pictures of all those players and he’s the one with his arms folded. I’m serious. I don’t think they looked for a picture where he had his arms folded. It just came like that and the graphics designer put it that way like a pointed triangle.
Yes, the rebounds are the hardest part for him.
Maybe one reason why his scoring rate could go down, is because of what you said: He's not the focus of the offense. Which means players who usually look for their shot more, would shoot more, even when he's on the court.
Or he'd pass the ball to others. But even with that, he should still get double figures, if he played 31+ minutes.
So imagine being a player who does not look to shoot.
He is a scrappy player. One former broadcaster calls him a "shit bird", in a good way.With as much three-point shooting he has, I can imagine him disappearing on the perimeter and not getting rebounds to get easy put backs. I think I am biased to think that he is taller, and so therefore should be a scrapy player. But if he were the scrappy player does little things, and still averaged eight points in 19 minutes, it wouldn’t be a stretch to get one more shot if he doubled his minutes.
Yes, I think he could average 10 points if his minutes were doubled.But part of the reason why I scoffed at the idea of not being able to average 10 points if he played double the minutes is that I don’t feel that low points should be hard.
Without looking it up, guess the obvious reason why this is a ridiculous “historical” stat? (It doesn’t say historical this time, but that’s implied when you cite “since John Stockton.”)
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OMG! The Jazz Twitter page said Dunn Deal, when Dunn had a triple double that was close to what Jokic did?
I don't think the 15 rebound, 15 assist by Jokic is that impressive. But when factoring in that it's 100% FG, then yes, it's impressive.
Oh, thanks.Huh? I mean there have been highlights where he has made a shot and they said Dunn deal. When they made his 10 day contract permanent, they said Dunn deal. Or on a clutch shot, they’ll say he wasn’t Dunn yet.