Austin Rivers and dat progression?

[KNUBB]

Has a dad that was good.

I wonder if KNUBB defended Mike Dunleavy so furiously.

I wonder how many times I brought up Doc at all.

[NAHSTE]

I'm assuming you are looking at just the single Hornets game you watched last night. I wonder how many of you know what progress means

He looked awful in what I saw. Like, he's not good at any one particular skill a player that plays his position should be good at. Maybe one day he will "progress" ... but into what, exactly? I can't project him as ever becoming useful because I don't see one useful skill he brings to the table.

Sorry.

[KNUBB]

He looked awful in what I saw. Like, he's not good at any one particular skill a player that plays his position should be good at. Maybe one day he will "progress" ... but into what, exactly? I can't project him as ever becoming useful because I don't see one useful skill he brings to the table.

Sorry.

Having seen 30 games of him I see better things everyday, Monty preaches defense and his has significantly improved in that over 30 games. He has the quickness to get by anyone; he just needs to learn how to finish. That skill alone will inflate his stat line in many ways. The he can't shoot thing is funny when I compared him to every top 10 guard drafted last year and 3 of the 4 shoot the same percentage

[KNUBB]

He looked awful in what I saw. Like, he's not good at any one particular skill a player that plays his position should be good at. Maybe one day he will "progress" ... but into what, exactly? I can't project him as ever becoming useful because I don't see one useful skill he brings to the table.

Sorry.

Having seen 30 games of him I see better things everyday, Monty preaches defense and his has significantly improved in that over 30 games. He has the quickness to get by anyone; he just needs to learn how to finish. That skill alone will inflate his stat line in many ways. The he can't shoot thing is funny when I compared him to every top 10 guard drafted last year and 3 of the 4 shoot the same percentage

[FedEx227]

That is true. He's at 42.9% right now at the rim and that's basically unacceptable. If he does add that, yeah, he'll look better, but I'd suspect you can say that about a lot of guys who have issues finishing. I'm not sure what evidence we have that he's going to figure that out.

From 3-9 feet: 21.4%. Oh lawdy lawd.

[KNUBB]

That is true. He's at 42.9% right now at the rim and that's basically unacceptable. If he does add that, yeah, he'll look better, but I'd suspect you can say that about a lot of guys who have issues finishing. I'm not sure what evidence we have that he's going to figure that out.

From 3-9 feet: 21.4%. Oh lawdy lawd.

So you don't think he will get any better at finishing at the rim?

[FedEx227]

Beats me. It's not unprecedented that a guy doesn't become a consistent finisher. It's doomed a lot of careers. Tyrus Thomas springs to mind as a guy who SHOULD have been able to become a consistent finisher and never did. (I would also like to point out that his bad % are still 20% better than Rivers) but that's the general point. I'm sure a lot of people said the same thing about Thomas "oh well when he gets better at finishing".

Rivers has a chance to, for sure, but I'm not about to ignore a historically bad percentage of restricted area efficiency just because someone is 19-years old. It's a huge issue at any point during an NBA player's career.

[Kuzzy Powers]

I wonder how many of you know what progress means

It would be real tough not to go up from playing this bad doe.

[KNUBB]

He is the only one huh?

[MVPete]

Looking good again.

[MVPete]

Having seen 30 games of him I see better things everyday, Monty preaches defense and his has significantly improved in that over 30 games. He has the quickness to get by anyone; he just needs to learn how to finish. That skill alone will inflate his stat line in many ways. The he can't shoot thing is funny when I compared him to every top 10 guard drafted last year and 3 of the 4 shoot the same percentage

[KNUBB]

Wrong Rivers Pete. Go talk baseball

[MVPete]

Wrong Rivers Pete. Go talk baseball

[KNUBB]

Much better

[Primetime]

Just making a point bro, but you don't see anyone doing that. Just Rivers shit bruh. No one even has any real criticism. PT with the FT Percentage is the 1st logical gripe I have seen from you people. Yes dude struggles at the FT line. Something I hope will get better the more Monty has them fixing his shot.

First logical gripe and it gets groaned