Kemba Walker

[bes628]

My favorite player on the team.

[Chef]

He can only rush it or set his man up AFTER the big sets the screen.


What's the first part of the p&r? The PICK. Starts with the pick

i didn't know this stuff was out there before i posted before. apparently synergy sports reports a pretty low efficiency rating for kemba off of pick and rolls.

also: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/15/sp...-and-roll.html
his coach essentially said the same thing i said

also: it is only one video but it illustrates him missing the correct pass

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBFIBixkuW0

notice at the 5 sec mark, biz has rolled and the correct pass is at the rim or at worst over the defender. biz even has his arm up. but kemba just doesn't see it until the defense has recovered. again, this is only one example and i am sure there are others that show him correctly executing. i am using it to illustrate all that i have said above as a theme.

i don't hate kemba. he has potential. but he is not a natural point guard or a sure thing as a starting point.

[Toocool]

I like watching Kemba now.
Whereas before I thought he was selfish and hell and would become a Brandon Jennings close, he's trying to get teammates involved which pleases me.
Kemba has my seal of approval.

[SWedd523]

i didn't know this stuff was out there before i posted before. apparently synergy sports reports a pretty low efficiency rating for kemba off of pick and rolls.

also: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/15/sp...-and-roll.html
his coach essentially said the same thing i said

also: it is only one video but it illustrates him missing the correct pass

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBFIBixkuW0

notice at the 5 sec mark, biz has rolled and the correct pass is at the rim or at worst over the defender. biz even has his arm up. but kemba just doesn't see it until the defense has recovered. again, this is only one example and i am sure there are others that show him correctly executing. i am using it to illustrate all that i have said above as a theme.

i don't hate kemba. he has potential. but he is not a natural point guard or a sure thing as a starting point.

I'm not at all saying a PG can't mess up a p&r. You can't just put spectre out there and expect him to pick up a double double like Steve Nash.

Of course a PG has an important role in the p&r offense. His job is to figure out, on the fly, which pass is the best. He has to decide if the bounce pass is correct, if the lob is correct, if the kickout is correct, if the reset is correct, or if the jumper is correct.

All I'm saying is that without a proper screen by the big man FIRST, the entire play is ruined.

[Dcarnys]

I've loved this guy since seeing how he could take iver a game at UConn. I like what I'm seeing so far. Its gonna take awhile for him to find a role in the NBA but I have and still believe he will blossom into a very special player.
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[spectre]

I totally agree that change of pace in the lane right before/during/right after the pick is what separates the men from the boys. How many PGs can do that to perfection tho? IMO that's one of the key things that make Paul so great. Kemba absolutely doesn't have that. Thing is about 20-25 of the starting PGs in the NBA can't do that to perfection either. I certainly think he can do better at it...but some of that skill is just "there" I think. The CP3's don't come around all that often.

[Chevalier au Lion]

to me, Kemba remain unconvinced. too undersized, he´s not adapted to the NBA, he doesn´t distributes like DJA, for example.

and, if they don´t trade DJA before the 15, Kemba will continue start in the backup, and not with all the minutes required for his development...

Maybe we could do is trade Kemba for Kendall Marshall to the team that take him in the draft.

[Chef]

to me, Kemba remain unconvinced. too undersized, he´s not adapted to the NBA, he doesn´t distributes like DJA, for example.

and, if they don´t trade DJA before the 15, Kemba will continue start in the backup, and not with all the minutes required for his development...

Maybe we could do is trade Kemba for Kendall Marshall to the team that take him in the draft.

i am not ready to trade kemba for anything less than a top 9 pick in this year's draft.

[dnbman]

The problem is that we need to make a decision on DJ now. He seems to be wanting more money that we should pay for him, so he'll probably sign elsewhere. If we don't trade him, we get nothing but cap space for him.

[spectre]

he doesn´t distributes like DJA, for example.

Yet he's averaging more assists in his rookie year than DJ did....and DJ had a MUCH more structured offense to work with. It blows my mind that people keep bringing this up while ignoring the fact that they're comparing a rook to a 4th year player AND ignoring their two different situations coming in.

They definitely should move DJ. Just take the best offer out there. If we don't we'll either overpay him or lose him for nothing.