KiwiMatt wrote:In regards to Crawford staying healthy, he's only missed three games in the last two season. Pretty impressive for a 37 year old.
It helps that he is a pretty lengthy combo guard with his ball handling skills. Off the bench he will be longer than a lot of the guys he will be playing.
One thing I found interesting looking at his 3 point shots from last year was he took the fewest corner 3's (in terms of percent of his 3 point takes) than he has for a few years. So he took more 3's from the longer distance and so that means his 36% from 3 last year is actually better than it looks at first glance. His percentage of assisted 3's was also the lowest of his career.
Monster. I do like Crawford's ballhandling and length. But I think you're reaching a bit in your breakdown of his threes. :) He's a career 35% 3-point shooter. He's also been a pretty inefficient scorer with a career eFG percentage of 47.7%. Last season was the best of his last three seasons in 3-point shooting (36%) and efficient (48% eFG). But the prior two seasons were bad in both categories with 3-point percentages of 34% and 32.7% and eFG percentages of 46.6 and 46.7. He's been consistently trending down in point the past three seasons in spite of playing essentially the same number of minutes per game in those seasons. My bottom line with Crawford is that he's exclusively an offensive player, yet he's not an upper level 3-point shooter and he's not a very efficient scorer. Moreover, his age is highly problematic. Honestly, how many 37-year olds have been significant, effective contributors in NBA history? When you look back at former NBA players you see that their performance typically falls off a cliff at some point between age 35 and 38.
KiwiMatt wrote:In regards to Crawford staying healthy, he's only missed three games in the last two season. Pretty impressive for a 37 year old.
It helps that he is a pretty lengthy combo guard with his ball handling skills. Off the bench he will be longer than a lot of the guys he will be playing.
One thing I found interesting looking at his 3 point shots from last year was he took the fewest corner 3's (in terms of percent of his 3 point takes) than he has for a few years. So he took more 3's from the longer distance and so that means his 36% from 3 last year is actually better than it looks at first glance. His percentage of assisted 3's was also the lowest of his career.
Monster. I do like Crawford's ballhandling and length. But I think you're reaching a bit in your breakdown of his threes. :) He's a career 35% 3-point shooter. He's also been a pretty inefficient scorer with a career eFG percentage of 47.7%. Last season was the best of his last three seasons in 3-point shooting (36%) and efficient (48% eFG). But the prior two seasons were bad in both categories with 3-point percentages of 34% and 32.7% and eFG percentages of 46.6 and 46.7. He's been consistently trending down in point the past three seasons in spite of playing essentially the same number of minutes per game in those seasons. My bottom line with Crawford is that he's exclusively an offensive player, yet he's not an upper level 3-point shooter and he's not a very efficient scorer. Moreover, his age is highly problematic. Honestly, how many 37-year olds have been significant, effective contributors in NBA history? When you look back at former NBA players you see that their performance typically falls off a cliff at some point between age 35 and 38.
I broke down some interesting numbers from last season. That's it. I'm well aware of his career 3 point shooting.
KiwiMatt wrote:In regards to Crawford staying healthy, he's only missed three games in the last two season. Pretty impressive for a 37 year old.
It helps that he is a pretty lengthy combo guard with his ball handling skills. Off the bench he will be longer than a lot of the guys he will be playing.
One thing I found interesting looking at his 3 point shots from last year was he took the fewest corner 3's (in terms of percent of his 3 point takes) than he has for a few years. So he took more 3's from the longer distance and so that means his 36% from 3 last year is actually better than it looks at first glance. His percentage of assisted 3's was also the lowest of his career.
Monster. I do like Crawford's ballhandling and length. But I think you're reaching a bit in your breakdown of his threes. :) He's a career 35% 3-point shooter. He's also been a pretty inefficient scorer with a career eFG percentage of 47.7%. Last season was the best of his last three seasons in 3-point shooting (36%) and efficient (48% eFG). But the prior two seasons were bad in both categories with 3-point percentages of 34% and 32.7% and eFG percentages of 46.6 and 46.7. He's been consistently trending down in point the past three seasons in spite of playing essentially the same number of minutes per game in those seasons. My bottom line with Crawford is that he's exclusively an offensive player, yet he's not an upper level 3-point shooter and he's not a very efficient scorer. Moreover, his age is highly problematic. Honestly, how many 37-year olds have been significant, effective contributors in NBA history? When you look back at former NBA players you see that their performance typically falls off a cliff at some point between age 35 and 38.
I broke down some interesting numbers from last season. That's it. I'm well aware of his career 3 point shooting.
Agree Monster. Lip I've read 42 posts on your views of Crawford's 3 pt shooting. You're 212 posts behind my views on Rubio, but we have a few months before the years starts. You can still catch me.
Last year i remember are 2nd team not being able to score much at all and blowing huge leads. Some on here call Crawford just a offensive player that all he can to is score? Pretty sure that's what they need on the 2nd unit. Well be a breath of fresh air watching are 2nd team not give up a 20 point lead. Just with Crawford and Dieng are 2nd team is much better IMO... Add in guys like,Bazz/ Tony /Brooks/ or dante and it's even better.
Crawford is a classy guy who is easy to cheer for, but I completely understand Lip's skepticism about him being the answer to our offensive woes off the bench. He really doesn't provide much other then 3-point shooting, and you can't ignore the fact that his 35% career rate is actually below the league average. Combine that with a very poor PER of 12 last season, and it's difficult to make any case that we have found our bench savior...especially since he will be turning 38 next season.
There is a lot of homerism in my selections, but I choose 3 current or former Wolves...Muhammad, Rush and Cunningham. Why?
Muhammad: We all know his ability to score, plus we saw signs of improving defense last year. He's never going to be a high BBIQ guy or ballhandler, and I don't think he will ever be an effective 3-point shooter either, but he will produce points and offensive rebounds in a limited role. And we need more wings.
Rush: He had a poor season last year, but still hit almost 39% of his threes and was effective on defense. He's not going to rebound much or distribute, but this team needs to improve its 3-point shooting and Rush's 40% career rate would help here a lot.
Cunningham: He left here after some unfair allegations, but he is a solid rebounder, defender and mid-range guy who has also added the 3-pointer to his game...39% on the highest volume of his career.
Add these three guys to this roster, and our bench gets much stronger.
KiwiMatt wrote:In regards to Crawford staying healthy, he's only missed three games in the last two season. Pretty impressive for a 37 year old.
It helps that he is a pretty lengthy combo guard with his ball handling skills. Off the bench he will be longer than a lot of the guys he will be playing.
One thing I found interesting looking at his 3 point shots from last year was he took the fewest corner 3's (in terms of percent of his 3 point takes) than he has for a few years. So he took more 3's from the longer distance and so that means his 36% from 3 last year is actually better than it looks at first glance. His percentage of assisted 3's was also the lowest of his career.
Monster. I do like Crawford's ballhandling and length. But I think you're reaching a bit in your breakdown of his threes. :) He's a career 35% 3-point shooter. He's also been a pretty inefficient scorer with a career eFG percentage of 47.7%. Last season was the best of his last three seasons in 3-point shooting (36%) and efficient (48% eFG). But the prior two seasons were bad in both categories with 3-point percentages of 34% and 32.7% and eFG percentages of 46.6 and 46.7. He's been consistently trending down in point the past three seasons in spite of playing essentially the same number of minutes per game in those seasons. My bottom line with Crawford is that he's exclusively an offensive player, yet he's not an upper level 3-point shooter and he's not a very efficient scorer. Moreover, his age is highly problematic. Honestly, how many 37-year olds have been significant, effective contributors in NBA history? When you look back at former NBA players you see that their performance typically falls off a cliff at some point between age 35 and 38.
Crawford said himself the last 2 years he took a step back from being the main guy on the 2nd team for the clippers. The coaches son took some shots away from crawford. Here he would be back to the main guy again i could see him scroing 14-16 PPG again.. 14/15 season he scored 16ppg,Not sure i would call that trending down in points.
KiwiMatt wrote:In regards to Crawford staying healthy, he's only missed three games in the last two season. Pretty impressive for a 37 year old.
It helps that he is a pretty lengthy combo guard with his ball handling skills. Off the bench he will be longer than a lot of the guys he will be playing.
One thing I found interesting looking at his 3 point shots from last year was he took the fewest corner 3's (in terms of percent of his 3 point takes) than he has for a few years. So he took more 3's from the longer distance and so that means his 36% from 3 last year is actually better than it looks at first glance. His percentage of assisted 3's was also the lowest of his career.
Monster. I do like Crawford's ballhandling and length. But I think you're reaching a bit in your breakdown of his threes. :) He's a career 35% 3-point shooter. He's also been a pretty inefficient scorer with a career eFG percentage of 47.7%. Last season was the best of his last three seasons in 3-point shooting (36%) and efficient (48% eFG). But the prior two seasons were bad in both categories with 3-point percentages of 34% and 32.7% and eFG percentages of 46.6 and 46.7. He's been consistently trending down in point the past three seasons in spite of playing essentially the same number of minutes per game in those seasons. My bottom line with Crawford is that he's exclusively an offensive player, yet he's not an upper level 3-point shooter and he's not a very efficient scorer. Moreover, his age is highly problematic. Honestly, how many 37-year olds have been significant, effective contributors in NBA history? When you look back at former NBA players you see that their performance typically falls off a cliff at some point between age 35 and 38.
I broke down some interesting numbers from last season. That's it. I'm well aware of his career 3 point shooting.
Agree Monster. Lip I've read 42 posts on your views of Crawford's 3 pt shooting. You're 212 posts behind my views on Rubio, but we have a few months before the years starts. You can still catch me.
Lol. Good one, Duke. I'll have to step up my game. :)
longstrangetrip wrote:There is a lot of homerism in my selections, but I choose 3 current or former Wolves...Muhammad, Rush and Cunningham. Why?
Muhammad: We all know his ability to score, plus we saw signs of improving defense last year. He's never going to be a high BBIQ guy or ballhandler, and I don't think he will ever be an effective 3-point shooter either, but he will produce points and offensive rebounds in a limited role. And we need more wings.
Rush: He had a poor season last year, but still hit almost 39% of his threes and was effective on defense. He's not going to rebound much or distribute, but this team needs to improve its 3-point shooting and Rush's 40% career rate would help here a lot.
Cunningham: He left here after some unfair allegations, but he is a solid rebounder, defender and mid-range guy who has also added the 3-pointer to his game...39% on the highest volume of his career.
Add these three guys to this roster, and our bench gets much stronger.
Good post, LST. My three were Bazz, Brooks and Morrow. Bazz for the reasons you gave, Brooks because of his 3-point shooting and for a vet presence at PG, and Morrow because of his 3-point shooting prowess. I actually think Bazz will become a good 3-point shooter, so I'm even more sold on him than you are. I like Tyus Jones and envision him as our main backup PG. But I'm still a bit unsure of him given his size, limited athleticism and young age. That's why I think Brooks would make sense. It's a close call for me between Morrow and Rush. You make a good case for Rush. And I do like Cunningham so I wouldn't mind signing him. He's a solid bench guy who has a pretty complete game.
It'd never gonna happen, but I'd go Bazz, D Will and Gerald Green. Bazz is the best SF on that list which we desperately need even though I don't like his playstyle. Williams is a solid backup PG who shot the lights out for Cleveland off the ball last year before the finals against GS and he's fit well here next to Butler in spurts. Green has position versatility to play either wing as injury insurance and he's a vet. Rush shoots well, but he can only play 2 and we have 3 guys who can play 2 and we can even go small with D Will making it 4.
