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Kekgeek grade G64 vs lakers

Posted: Sun Mar 10, 2024 10:57 pm
by kekgeek
Conley: D
Ant: C+
Naw: B+
Mcdaniels: F
Naz: C
Garza: B-
Warren: C-
Jmac: A

Re: Kekgeek grade G64 vs lakers

Posted: Sun Mar 10, 2024 11:10 pm
by FNG
kekgeek wrote: Sun Mar 10, 2024 10:57 pm Conley: D
Ant: C+
Naw: B+
Mcdaniels: F
Naz: C
Garza: B-
Warren: C-
Jmac: A
Yep, well done. With no chance of winning the game inside, we really needed Ant, Jaden and Mike to score from the outside. They responded with a 3-17 on threes. Ballgame.

Re: Kekgeek grade G64 vs lakers

Posted: Mon Mar 11, 2024 8:05 am
by Q-is-here
Naz is a tough one to grade because he was an A+ offensively, but an abject failure on defense, especially the defensive glass - AD got 10 offensive rebounds. You rarely see that these days. We lose the game because AD, the former power forward, looked like Wilt Chamberlain against our frontline.

Re: Kekgeek grade G64 vs lakers

Posted: Mon Mar 11, 2024 8:23 am
by FNG
Q-is-here wrote: Mon Mar 11, 2024 8:05 am Naz is a tough one to grade because he was an A+ offensively, but an abject failure on defense, especially the defensive glass - AD got 10 offensive rebounds. You rarely see that these days. We lose the game because AD, the former power forward, looked like Wilt Chamberlain against our frontline.
Agree, and that's why a C is such a perfect grade for him. We can expect more games like that from Naz as his offensive game continues to improve while remaining ineffective on defense...25 efficient points, but a -25. In some ways he reminds me of D'Angelo Russell. DLo is having a terrific offensive season, but proves over and over that he will ever be effective on the defensive side of the court.

Re: Kekgeek grade G64 vs lakers

Posted: Mon Mar 11, 2024 8:34 am
by Carlos Danger
Looks like McDaniels had another bad game and other people (instead of only me) are finally starting to chirp in game threads. He absolutely needs to do better. Right now he's dropped to a negative VORP for the season.

On the plus side, it looks like McDaniels was at least a willing shooter (17 shots) and grabbed 6 rebounds. So, even though his shot was not falling, I applaud his increased effort on that end and would probably bump him into the D range for that reason. Still a bad game. But he's still sitting at about a .500 FG% for the year, so I'm fine with him taking those shots each game - especially with KAT out.

And on the plus, plus side...DLO didn't beat us. That would have been unbearable. :lol:

Re: Kekgeek grade G64 vs lakers

Posted: Mon Mar 11, 2024 8:42 am
by FNG
Jaden had a poor shooting night, Anthony, but while I want more from him, I think his contributions as our 5th most important starter are appropriate. He plays effective, tough defense every night, and while he doesn't work as hard on offense as I would like, is an efficient 58.2% TS% scorer. He's still young, and I think he is an effective 5th starter. But I can't give him any more than a D last night.

Re: Kekgeek grade G64 vs lakers

Posted: Mon Mar 11, 2024 8:52 am
by kekgeek
Q-is-here wrote: Mon Mar 11, 2024 8:05 am Naz is a tough one to grade because he was an A+ offensively, but an abject failure on defense, especially the defensive glass - AD got 10 offensive rebounds. You rarely see that these days. We lose the game because AD, the former power forward, looked like Wilt Chamberlain against our frontline.
The thing with last night. Naz only had a good first half offensively with only scoring 4 points in the second half. The lakers guarded Naz in the second half like they guard Jokic. Have one of their bigger wings guard Naz and have AD play off a non shooter in this case it was Mcdaniels.

So good for Naz that he had to be game planed against but it worked and Jaden failed to step up when they left him. This is going to happen in the playoffs also.

Props to Jmac for knocking down his open 3s tonight

Re: Kekgeek grade G64 vs lakers

Posted: Mon Mar 11, 2024 9:12 am
by FNG
Yeah, not only does JMac up the electricity when he comes in at both ends of the court, he's beginning to shoot his 3's like he did in college. He's now 43.1 on the season and 53.3% in his last 10! With his career number even up to a league-average 35.5 %, I think it's time to suspend the "if only JMac could make 3's" narrative. I have to admit the high arc on his 3-point shot doesn't make me feel confident, but NAW's form also made me falsely conclude last season he wasn't going to be a good 3-point shooter. But they are both proving me wrong.

Re: Kekgeek grade G64 vs lakers

Posted: Mon Mar 11, 2024 9:24 am
by kekgeek
FNG wrote: Mon Mar 11, 2024 9:12 am Yeah, not only does JMac up the electricity when he comes in at both ends of the court, he's beginning to shoot his 3's like he did in college. He's now 43.1 on the season and 53.3% in his last 10! With his career number even up to a league-average 35.5 %, I think it's time to suspend the "if only JMac could make 3's" narrative. I have to admit the high arc on his 3-point shot doesn't make me feel confident, but NAW's form also made me falsely conclude last season he wasn't going to be a good 3-point shooter. But they are both proving me wrong.
I’m going to disagree a little bit. 60% of all Jmac shots this year have been a wide open or open 3 pt attempt according to NBA.com by far the highest on the wolves. So what he is doing now is great because he is making teams pay for but guarding him however how much are we hurting in terms of spacing because they are not guarding him.

Hard to tell. But I’m not to call him an elite shooter when majority of his attempts are legit wide open 3s

Re: Kekgeek grade G64 vs lakers

Posted: Mon Mar 11, 2024 9:36 am
by Carlos Danger
In defense of Naz, a C or "average" against an All Star like Anthony Davis is fine with me. Let's not forget Davis is averaging 25 points/game. He got 27 last night...but 9 came from the free throw line. He shot 9 for 17 from the field or .529. His season average FG% is .555...so I could spin it as Naz held him below his season average.

Also, let's not forget the last two times we played them, Davis had:

12/30 - Davis had 33 points and 17 rebounds (both Rudy and Kat played). And the time before that...
12/21 - Davis had 31 points and 8 rebounds. Again, both Rudy and Kat played.

So...I think Naz was ok (C grade is correct). But he had a tough assignment and I doubt Towns would have done any better - especially without Rudy. Davis is a beast.