Wednesday, November 09, 2005
Most Impressive Stat of the Young NBA Season
Unrelated, I got in a bit of a funk and didn't feel like blog writing over the last week or so despite some moderately interesting ideas.
It's not necessarily impressive that Kobe Bryant is leading the league in scoring. Everyone more or less expected that. He scored another 37 points last night, incidentally. What is impressive, however, is that through four games this season Kobe has scored 146 points and has not even attempted a three point shot. Kobe is driving the lane, hitting short jumpers, and has a field goal percentage of .514 at the moment. Those are dominant center type numbers and Kobe is putting them up as a shooting guard. That's enormously impressive.
It's safe to say the the Knicks are not gelling. Marbury looks like he doesn't know what he's supposed to do. He's capable of controlling the game with the ball in his hands, but he doesn't want Larry to get mad at him or something because he's trying to spread it around. Eddy Curry can't play 45 seconds without picking up two fouls, and Quentin Richardson and Jamal Crawford just have no conscience between the two of them. They'll shoot any time, any place.
The one impressive part about the Knicks is their group of young guys. It was actually fun to watch the second half of their game the other day against Golden State when Nate Robinson, David Lee, Channing Frye, Trevor Ariza, and Jamal Crawford were on the floor. They played with great energy and really turned the game around until the veterans came back in and blew the lead the kids had amassed. I'm worried that Larry Brown is not going to play the younger gies once the team starts to get its shit together. I'd like to see these guys develop. At the moment David Lee reminds me of a poor man's Kurt Thomas, who himself is a poor man's Karl Malone.
I can't imagine anyone beating the Spurs this year. Even if the Heat get their shit together and get everyone healthy, they don't have the fire power to do it.
It's not necessarily impressive that Kobe Bryant is leading the league in scoring. Everyone more or less expected that. He scored another 37 points last night, incidentally. What is impressive, however, is that through four games this season Kobe has scored 146 points and has not even attempted a three point shot. Kobe is driving the lane, hitting short jumpers, and has a field goal percentage of .514 at the moment. Those are dominant center type numbers and Kobe is putting them up as a shooting guard. That's enormously impressive.
It's safe to say the the Knicks are not gelling. Marbury looks like he doesn't know what he's supposed to do. He's capable of controlling the game with the ball in his hands, but he doesn't want Larry to get mad at him or something because he's trying to spread it around. Eddy Curry can't play 45 seconds without picking up two fouls, and Quentin Richardson and Jamal Crawford just have no conscience between the two of them. They'll shoot any time, any place.
The one impressive part about the Knicks is their group of young guys. It was actually fun to watch the second half of their game the other day against Golden State when Nate Robinson, David Lee, Channing Frye, Trevor Ariza, and Jamal Crawford were on the floor. They played with great energy and really turned the game around until the veterans came back in and blew the lead the kids had amassed. I'm worried that Larry Brown is not going to play the younger gies once the team starts to get its shit together. I'd like to see these guys develop. At the moment David Lee reminds me of a poor man's Kurt Thomas, who himself is a poor man's Karl Malone.
I can't imagine anyone beating the Spurs this year. Even if the Heat get their shit together and get everyone healthy, they don't have the fire power to do it.
# posted by ChuckJerry : 11/09/2005 08:01:00 AM
