Turnovers - Some Not As Bad As Others?

[amour217]

no oak tries to do something and gets stuffed sometimes, but diop will pass it to a guard when he is right under the basket where he should be able to get a bucket or a foul ever time. Of course he probably does not want to go to the foul line for the predictable at least one air ball and a second that is usually a toss up. I gotta say though the scene that one game with all the players getting behind him after the first air ball and then he makes the second at home might be my favorite bobcat moment. It was right up there with ryan hollins dunk on jemario moon, sean may hitting that game winning three and sean may blocking lebron for a defensive stand to end a game. if diop can hit freethrows it will change his whole game. all he has to do is toss the first one one foot farther and he will go from 38% to 88% by my calculations.

What do Jenna Jameson and Emeka Okafor have in common? They both get stuffed...A LOT

[spectre]

Er...back on topic?

I think Larry Brown is exactly right...all turnovers are not created equal. IMO you can lump them in 2 very general categories. First is Great Intention, Poor Execution and second would be WTF Was That?

Each of these would have multiple subcategories, but with the first you have situations where guys are trying to make a more risky play to get a better than average attempt to score. A good example would be Boris at the top of the key being manned up on D trying to get the ball to Mek underneath the goal. The paint is crowded, but if he can get it past the defenders Mek would most likely get a dunk...a very high percentage shot.

If you don't take the chance you end up passing around the circle and then taking lower percentage jump shots.

Is it worth these risks? Since Boris has entered the starting group there's no doubt Mek has gotten easier buckets and we've seen the end results with our .500 +/- record since the trade.

Like LB, I can live with that.

The second category should be self explanatory.

[Ghost Kat]

My problem is most of Diaws turnovers don't come from bad passes. He needs to work on his post up game, it's all to common that He'll try backing someone down then just stumble and fall and the other team is off to the races for a easy dunk. I'm happyto have Diaw but i think we might be giving him a little more credit then he really deserves.

[spectre]

Last night Felton had like 2 or 3 TOs in a row in the 3rd quarter and he got benched for a couple of minutes for them...mainly because I think LB felt he was getting out of control.

While he was somewhat, the 2 that I remember were NOT bad TOs. One was where he drove along the baseline and got called for stepping out of bounds (he continued thru to pass it to Mek right underneath). That was a CLOSE call. The Philly announcers showed it on the replay and his foot was right at the edge of the line.

The other was on a post up by Mek...right when Felton went to pass it in Mek bent forwards while pushing his butt into his defender which forced his balance backwards...he couldn't recover in time to get the pass.

Again, no TO is good, but the first I would take again in a heartbeat (a fraction of an inch was the difference in a slam dunk). The 2nd was just flat out bad luck.

We also mentioned the walk by DJ in the other thread; again, I'd take that every day. Chances are that'll get an easy basket or foul shots more times than not.