Bust a Scoot?

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Scoot's best weapon is his speed. This allows him to get to the basket or close enough for one of his pullup shots. It also helps him get assists if he can get penetration and pass before the defense is set up. I think he or the coach was so worried about turnovers though that he has now intentionally slowed down. (Apparently Brogdon also in his ear to do this.)
Without his speed, and lacking a great shot, he is not very effective right now. Hopefully, as he gets used to the NBA game, he will make decisions quicker and be able to get back up to speed.
There is one other way the team could approach this though. Tell him to just keep going as fast as he can and hope his processing speed eventually catches up to his physical speed. This might hurt the team while helping him, although it might also hurt his confidence too much, so it seems probably best just to let him slow down some for awhile, although this makes him much less effective for awhile. Kind of a tossup for me.
 
in the lead-up to the draft, there’s no discussion about who you take at #3. not saying that’s how the draft plays out over 10-15 years, but there was nobody else based on what’s known in June 2023 that should be taken #3 if Wemby and Miller are gone.
 
UKRAINEFAN said:
Scoot's best weapon is his speed. This allows him to get to the basket or close enough for one of his pullup shots. It also helps him get assists if he can get penetration and pass before the defense is set up. I think he or the coach was so worried about turnovers though that he has now intentionally slowed down. (Apparently Brogdon also in his ear to do this.)
Without his speed, and lacking a great shot, he is not very effective right now. Hopefully, as he gets used to the NBA game, he will make decisions quicker and be able to get back up to speed.
There is one other way the team could approach this though. Tell him to just keep going as fast as he can and hope his processing speed eventually catches up to his physical speed. This might hurt the team while helping him, although it might also hurt his confidence too much, so it seems probably best just to let him slow down some for awhile, although this makes him much less effective for awhile. Kind of a tossup for me.
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I think he needs to focus on his finishing at the hoop and passing more than slowing down.
He's short-arming layups where in the summer league he would make the extra effort to do a reverse layup and succeed even when he was being fouled/contacted by two players simultaneously.
In summer league he seemed more aware of the defense around him. That's very important for him, and looks like it's just something that will come with time.
Having a better offense would help too.
Ausar Thompson was very effective helping his team to rotate and keep passing the ball until it got to an open man.
 
Scoot needs to be able to get into the paint and find open lanes to shooters. That's not really possible right now because we have no shooting. Everyone is shooting like ass this season except Brogdon.

It's the same reason why Ayton is struggling whenever we feed him in the paint. Here is Sharpe and Ayton running a pick and roll. Four Magic are in the paint. Banchero is sagging heavy off Grant. If Grant can't hit his threes (he's 1-9 so far this year) then we are sunk. Losing Simons really hurts our spacing.

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Natebishop3 said:
Scoot needs to be able to get into the paint and find open lanes to shooters. That's not really possible right now because we have no shooting. Everyone is shooting like ass this season except Brogdon.

It's the same reason why Ayton is struggling whenever we feed him in the paint. Here is Sharpe and Ayton running a pick and roll. Four Magic are in the paint. Banchero is sagging heavy off Grant. If Grant can't hit his threes (he's 1-9 so far this year) then we are sunk. Losing Simons really hurts our spacing.

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Easy. Grant's man is playing off of him.

Sharpe turns the corner and fakes a pass to Mays while Grant cuts to the hoop for an alley oop from Sharpe.
Or Sharpe could pass to Mays who dribbles in then throws the lob to Grant. Banchero would be totally focused on keeping anyone from driving in and wouldn't be watching Grant.

This would be a perfect use of Grant's length.
 
I know he's young, but.....ehhh

A lot of guys came into the league at 20 and you could instantly see their talent. Scoot is just 1 year younger, and doesn't even look like he belongs in the NBA. I hope he is not yet another in a long line of Blazer busts. Sometimes I think this franchise is cursed.
 
beast crnjo said:
I know he's young, but.....ehhh

A lot of guys came into the league at 20 and you could instantly see their talent. Scoot is just 1 year younger, and doesn't even look like he belongs in the NBA. I hope he is not yet another in a long line of Blazer busts. Sometimes I think this franchise is cursed.
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It's shocking he's playing this poorly considering paying in the g league. I don't think we could of drafted anyone else he was the guy who "fell" to us.

No one saw him being this bad, including Puma our Gm and ESPN putting him on the top 100

That being said he can still be good it's really early but shocking poor start, he won't be good this season it seems at all but let's see how he improves next year.
 
It doesn't look like this guy was ready for the NBA. I just hope taking the jump too soon hurts hi.
 
Who the hell is telling Scoot to take 3-pointers instead of his dependable (to some degree) mid-range jumpers?
Those mid-rangers may not be super efficient, but at least have him mix them into his game like many star players do.
The mid-rangers can also turn into lobs once he starts making a few.

By the way, what happened to the lobs? Cutters? I've seen many times where a guy was open on the other side of the basket waiting for the ball.
Isn't that how you practice lobs? Wonder what Billups was doing. Does he care?
The young guys want to be in motion.

I miss Trendon Watford and Josh Hart. They were always looking for the lob.
 
I own that I thought this kid would come in and be ready from day one. I was wrong about that.

But holy shit people are trashing him after only three games. He’s 19. What did people expect this season?
 
Natebishop3 said:
I own that I thought this kid would come in and be ready from day one. I was wrong about that.

But holy shit people are trashing him after only three games. He’s 19. What did people expect this season?
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He's young and needs to pay some dues, he's been so hyped and put on a pedestal by many he's lost some confidence. If coach was smart he'd bring him off the bench for a while. Just a thought...
 
Hoopguru said:
He's young and needs to pay some dues, he's been so hyped and put on a pedestal by many he's lost some confidence. If coach was smart he'd bring him off the bench for a while. Just a thought...
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It's a tough thing to balance. He needs reps. The only way he's gonna get used to the speed of the game is by playing......... but will it trash his confidence? It kinda seems like it already has.
 
Its absolutely fair to say Scoot has looked far worse than anyone has expected. Can he still be good one day? Yes. But let’s be honest no one expected for him to look this bad. Not being able to shoot 3s as a point guard in the modern nba is usually a death sentence for ones nba prospects. But that’s just one of his many faults so far. I think it’s best ti expect nothing from him at this point act as if he was a late second round pick and hope for the best in a few years.
 
Scoot is passing up shots. I'm watching the second half and he had some wide open looks on mid-range pullups and he's not pulling the trigger.
 
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