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SharpesTriumph said:
Two other major components to this
1. TS was way lower in the Clyde/Kobe era. There was hand checking, more crowded defenders, and less efficient offense so all of the players had lower TS
2. Kobe Drexler had very high usage. This means they were taking tons of shots against the shot clock and against tough half court defense. Somebody on the team needs to take those shots but it will lower that individual TS while teammates are getting their shots in more efficient situations
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Their TS% was average for their day, whereas Shaedon's is below. Shaedon does need to improve his efficiency, but if he elevated it to the current average, that would increase his average per 36 by .78 points. Less than a point per game impact.

The far bigger issue is other things, his defense, passing (which has looked pretty good at times).

Of course, bad TS% is a huge problem collectively for the Blazers, as they are one of the worst in the league in that stat, and is a big contributer to them having on the worst offenses. Part of this is Billups.
 

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I must say, the Canadian Mamba does have a nice ring to it.
 
beast blazer said:
Their TS% was average for their day, whereas Shaedon's is below. Shaedon does need to improve his efficiency, but if he elevated it to the current average, that would increase his average per 36 by .78 points. Less than a point per game impact.

The far bigger issue is other things, his defense, passing (which has looked pretty good at times).

Of course, bad TS% is a huge problem collectively for the Blazers, as they are one of the worst in the league in that stat, and is a big contributer to them having on the worst offenses. Part of this is Billups.
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Yeah it's difficult to be a useful NBA player when your inefficient at scoring, bad at passing, and a poor defender.
 
blazerkor said:
You don't understand what I'm saying. I like Ant. I don't blame HIM for anything. I think Chauncey could have Ant playing a different role but more likely it's Joe's fault for keeping Ant on the team this long. Ant is doing what he does, he gets buckets, gets some opportunistic assists and sucks on defense. That is valuable to a few teams playing to win right now but those skills on offense take opportunities away from guys that we are hoping will develop to be better and more well rounded than Ant and on defense what he does puts young guys in positions to fail constantly. He's just not a good player to have on a rebuilding team (not his fault) and definitely not a good player to be leading a rebuilding team (again not his fault). It also wasn't his fault that he was set up to fail by being paired in a back court with Dame the season after he signed his big new deal.

The organization is putting Ant and our young guys in positions to fail at what their goals should be. Ant should be trying to get buckets and keeping defenses honest with good passing when they collapse on him or trap him and he should be trying to get better on defense. The first of those hinders the development of this young team and the second is really difficult when all of the guys around you are just learning D. As for the young guys and specifically Shae, he just has to get better in all areas and on offense that's getting reps and Ant cuts into those reps, naturally (not criticizing Ant just the roster construction). On defense Ant isn't a good defender so he is also making it close to impossible for Shae and others to get better on D.

Not a bad player, not a bad guy, just a bad fit for what this team should be trying to do.
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You had every right to reply like asshole to me and you didn't, so respect to you for that.

You are still being tunnel visioned though. You didn't address any of the points I said once again. Sharpe is starting, he is having his highest usage in his career. It's just his 3's, and that's flat out on HIM, not the team, not Ant, not nothing.

if Sharpe's 3% was better this season his PPG would be a lot higher and he would be our leading scorer. We are not doing any disservice by playing Ant with him.

Your argument should be for Scoot, who isn't starting or getting the reps he should, not Sharpe.

How was Sharpe's game last night playing with Ant? and how was his 3% once again? He went 2 for 8 on 3's last night, got good looks. He just didnt flat out make them.

Will you actually address that? or just ignore that once again?

You say you don't hate Ant, so what exactly are you and that clown poster doing by saying 24/7 every week in here Ant needs to go? repeating yourself over and over isn't going to change anything.

You imo are always pushing fault on everything but the obvious, which is it's on Sharpe to improve his 3's. Point blank
 
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SharpesTriumph said:
So that might be $100-200 million he is costing himself by shooting so poorly from 3.
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You believe Shaedon Sharpe will possibly LOSE TWO HUNDRED million dollars because of the way he is shooting the 3 this season? Please make this make sense.
 
THE HCP said:
You believe Shaedon Sharpe will possibly LOSE TWO HUNDRED million dollars because of the way he is shooting the 3 this season? Please make this make sense.
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Franz Wagner got a max extension that could be worth up to $270 million back in July.

If Sharpe was shooting great from threes compared to his current crap 26% - maybe he could have got a similar deal. So thats how the difference could be even up to 100-200 million.
 
SharpesTriumph said:
Franz Wagner got a max extension that could be worth up to $270 million back in July.

If Sharpe was shooting great from threes compared to his current crap 26% - maybe he could have got a similar deal. So thats how the difference could be even up to 100-200 million.
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I’m not good with math man, but he isn’t only going to get $70 M. This kid is about to get paid. And OF COURSE if you shoot better, you’ll make more……but this dude isn’t missing out on $200M.
 
He's a decent piece. But if he's your best player, you suck.

He's more like a Cliff Robinson level player. ( but with better highlight reels)
 
beast blazer said:
He's a decent piece. But if he's your best player, you suck.

He's more like a Cliff Robinson level player. ( but with better highlight reels)
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Jerome Kersey with better hands. A starter on a finals team but he probably shouldn’t be your #1 or #2 option if you’re being serious about winning a trophy.
 
tlongII said:
Too early to tell. He might be. He might not be.
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exactly. Why is the stupid around here is so eager to advertise it? Dude is 21. As someone who played a lot of hoops, I was sooooooo much better in my game and physically at age 25 then I was at 21. Maybe Shaedon and Scoot don't improve and are forever thought of as the rare phenomenal physical prospects who just treaded water in their 20's, or just maybe they improve by leaps and bounds as their skills & Bball IQ catch up to their still improving physical abilities? We shall see

STOMP
 
Needs to tighten up his handle, get more assertive and draw more fouls.
 
PCmor7 said:
Needs to tighten up his handle, get more assertive and draw more fouls.
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totally agree. The weakness of his handle is precisely why he is tentative IMO... & its a skill that absolutely can be improved with practice

STOMP
 
One thing to note is Sharpe has been pretty consistent this year, he doesn't have one game so far this year in which he has scored in single digits, scoring in double digits in every game this year.
 
blazerkor said:
Ant has missed 3 games this season. They were after Shaedon got back from injury.

Shaedon scored 33, 32 and 21 in those games against the Wolves, Hawks and Thunder all teams above .500 and not that we're trying to win right now but we beat 2 out of those 3 teams.
He shot 10-26 (38%) from three vs the 27% that he's shot from three overall this season.
He went 29-60 (48%) from the floor overall vs the 43% he's shot overall this season.
He got to the free throw line 25 times 8.3 times per game vs the 3.7 times per game he's averaging this season.

This isn't me calling out Ant and saying he's a bad teammate or some shit like that, it's (like I said in the previous post) obviously Shaedon that defers to Ant. I'm giving you this very clear statistical picture because I've been asking you to watch what Ant does to Shaedon's game but you have a huge blind sport when it comes to Ant so you'll just have to trust the stats while the rest of us can clearly see that even within games that Shaedon is much better when he's on the floor without Ant than with him. Clear to most of us but not so much to you.

Ant needs to go.
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So now will you admit Ant isn't affecting Sharpe?

Remember when you used a 3 game sample size?

We have way more sample size this year with Sharpe playing well next to Ant.

In January alone, he is averaging

20.1 PPG
4.4 REB
3.4 AST
45.3 FG %
37.8 3pt FG%
 
STOMP said:
exactly. Why is the stupid around here is so eager to advertise it? Dude is 21. As someone who played a lot of hoops, I was sooooooo much better in my game and physically at age 25 then I was at 21. Maybe Shaedon and Scoot don't improve and are forever thought of as the rare phenomenal physical prospects who just treaded water in their 20's, or just maybe they improve by leaps and bounds as their skills & Bball IQ catch up to their still improving physical abilities? We shall see

STOMP
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This is why I chuckle when i hear it would be bad to be a .500 team this year. We will only get better.
 
julius said:
The crazy thing about Shaedon in those highlights is, with the exception of the one vs last night, none looked like he was even having to try that hard to get that high.

Like "ho hum. Look what I can do"
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He made it look really easy last night as well......and it was not.
When he cocked his arm back it was not for show, he had to in order to avoid the defender.
Amazing dunk
 
I will say, I saw that dunk last night. I'm not usually impressed with most dunks... that was one of the filthiest dunks I'd ever seen. The power of it while also looking effortless was amazing.
 
We can see Sharpe getting help from Clingan, Walker and Camara to break free on several of his buckets. Complementary teammates.
Also a tight pass from Clingan.
Was Walker's "shot" actually a post-entry pass? It was very short for a shot, and doesn't look like it was tipped by the defender.

 
Strenuus said:
I will say, I saw that dunk last night. I'm not usually impressed with most dunks... that was one of the filthiest dunks I'd ever seen. The power of it while also looking effortless was amazing.
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Shaedon was asked after the game about the dunk contest and he said something like he wasn't too interested but if they ever had a contest for dunking on shot blockers he'd be cool with that.
 
blazerkor said:
Shaedon was asked after the game about the dunk contest and he said something like he wasn't too interested but if they ever had a contest for dunking on shot blockers he'd be cool with that.
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Like the time he tried to dunk on Rudy Gobert.

 
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