there comes a point when the age thing is just an excuse for poor performance. Scoot is probably not at that point yet, but right now he's just a bad NBA guard. He was bad at 19, he's bad at 20, and at this rate, he'll be bad at 21
Which is in a few weeks... I've heard this " but he's only x years old dude" many times, and it almost never results in the player turning out to be good in any sport. If you're talking that way about a player, their ceiling is most often average, and they usually don't even get there.
I wasn't disagreeing with you. I agree that he is good at getting to the rim. He's just has an abysmal % from there and his drives often result in a to.
He'll improve on that with experience. The fewer opportunities per year he gets the more years it will take to improve...
I think he will improve as well, and it does seem like he has been down a few minutes per game since his left quad contusion. So maybe they are monitoring his minutes. Overall though if he gets back to 26-28 minutes per game that gives him plenty of minutes to improve. But I don't think not getting 32-33 mpg is going to slow his progress.....by years. So far he has played 83 NBA games in his career and has averaged almost 28 minutes per game. That is not a problem. However, the fact that he has only played 83 games is a factor......despite all the Colin Cowherds on this board who think they know whether or not a player has it within the first few minutes of running up and down a basketball court. He has plenty of time this year to improve, plus the summer. Next fall is the telling point IMO.
No, playing with Ant and Grant destroys most of those minutes. I thought he played pretty well with Ayton last season. But definitely being on the court with Ant is wasted time, IMO. In fact, I think it's worse than wasted. I think it's counterproductive and holding Scoot back. No matter how good he could have been, he's worse right now because he said to play so much with Ant.
Yes, Scoot to this point has been disappointing for a #3 pick. People had high expectations for him pre-draft. But quite a few of these negative traits that we've seen over the past 2 seasons are not new. Here's what an insightful forum member posted pre-draft: I think Henderson comes with a lot of red-flags: - His PER was only 13.5. That's below average for the G-League. - 3.5 turnovers and 3.3 fouls per game. - Not only did he shoot 27.5% 3 pointers in the G-League regular season, he also only shot 46.5% for 2 pointers. That's not good efficiency. - For being a point guard that facilitates scoring, he only had a 98 offensive rating. Combine that with a 122 defensive rating, one of the worst in the G-League. - His G-League team only went 11-21, even though he has some solid talent on the team, including Leonard Miller. As many have posted previously, Scoot is young. We all hope he pans out. But at some point, I think we have to recognize that the odds of him living up to that #3 pick become slimmer and slimmer each game...
