SAGirl runs the church tbh
I missed this game lol...where is SAGirl when you need here..her boy with great game..
PS: probably typing dat essay as we speak..
Or yes essay time!!!
I will catch it on League Pass though. Happy to see my guy Kyle played well.
POP is going to keep teasing me experimenting with his guys.
It was a good game over all, and Kyle was not as passive as he has been. I still think there is room for him to take a few more shots. He has an annoying habit of getting the ball on the wing and driving diagonally into the lane only to make a lob pass to a 3-point shooter that is so slow that the defense can easily recover and stop the trey. Often he is passing up his own good look in the paint; either he is taller than the defender on him or he has created space between himself and the nearest defender. He needs to watch endless videos of Elgin Baylor who scored a zillion points with a nice running hook on that same drive. Or just make a jump stop and go up. But he needs to stop that slow lob to the perimeter and get his own. Maybe he is afraid it would make Pop mad (maybe it would).
your 3000th post..enjoy it
Yes! He makes nice drives into the paint where he should put it up, but chooses instead to make a slow lob pass to the perimeter, which the defenders can recover and defend.
It seems like he plays well against young teams but gets intimidated against the big boys.
I missed this game obviously but I had observed long ago he had been too passive and would dissappear offensively fir long stretches looking to pass too much. Lately he's increased his aggressiveness. He was in a super strict leash by Pop b4, so you can't be too critical. In terms of experience, he's basically a rookie, since he wasn't coached like this by Pop last season and they just had him work on his game in the background.
He's bound to mess up occasionally, you can't expect realistically a still developing player to showcase a perfect game. Heck our vets still mess up!
Is it me or is he not all that slow anymore?
Some of the wolves fans that were sitting in the row behind me at the game tonight me were really impressed with Kyle Anderson's play tonight.
You missed KA's best game of the season! He played with confidence and it showed. At one point, he pulled up the dribble and jumped before finding a man, and promptly threw it out of bounds by a good 3 feet. I expected an immediate timeout and for him to get yanked, but Pop let him play on. Up until that point, he'd been hustling and being disruptive. Looked faster and made very few mistakes. I'm hoping he gets some good burn during the playoffs (early to be saying, but everyone knows how Pop treats newer players in the playoffs), he's looking more and more like a baby Diaw/Manu combo forward as time goes on.
Very surprising that he scored on almost every drive to the basket. It is like he can do this all game and he could choose to score anytime he wants.
His 3 point shot is still off though. If here fixes that, he'll be golden.
He also had a good block against a taller player. Usually he blocks some guard.
KA did well but hes still too passive. That one play with all that great passing, sure it was cool to look at but during it KA had a wide open look behind the three but instead passed it. Hes got to let it fly.
He's a legit NBA rotation player even now. Good find at the 30th pick.
Looked like Pop lengthened the leash tonight and Kyle responded. He got a pat on the ass from Pop so that tells you all you need to know. Next game who knows, Pop might yank him after 10 seconds just to make sure the youngster knows he has to get over himself.
Although post game Ninja said it will be sooner than people think when Pop green lights him to just go out and play his game. Hopefully that's based on some inside knowledge and not just an opinion.
Kyle looked really good tonight. Best I've seen him play, I think.
The guy is 22 years old. Look at what he did while playing with one of the most difficult offenses to play in. Look at LMA and West, even as veterans they look lost in the court.
This is a ridiculous STEAL in the draft.
He's more agile than he seemed last season bc he seems to be in better shape, and he's more decisive. Some of his slowmo appearance was indecisiveness and hesitation. I would say he lacks completely any explosiveness, so his game relies on craftiness, hesitations, changes of speed, etc. In one of the interviews I saw (I think the link is in this thread somewhere) he said he had actually tried to speed his game up bc the Spurs had asked him to do that, but that overall they still want him to play his game.
Again, big adjustment for him to figure out his game at this level. But it seems like when he finally does, this guy could really be special. He's just very unique.
He does have a jump hook and a kind if runner with a super high release. We saw . It once in this game, a lot in summer league and in the dleague. Sometimes you feel like if he really had the mind to it, he could get whatever shots he wanted. Doesn't mean that he should. I thought last game was a fine balance by him between being aggressive for himself and making something happen for someone.
Also, he flashed us his post up game.
Good game by my guy Kyle!!! (Watched it finally in L.Pass)
Great contribution from potato head last night
Kyle's interview after the game in foxsports sw:
http://www.foxsports.com/southwest/v...d=591109187548
Tells Sean he tries to be a spark (I think all bench players have this mentality), but that his focus is still defense and rebounding. Also, that he still has the mind of a point guard, enjoying setting teammates up and recognizing the hot hand.
Sean is wily and asks him about anything Pop has told him about his role on the team bc Pop has been especially hard on him. Kyle doesn't concede anything, he just said this game Pop was letting him play.
Kyle passed on the 3 and instead we got to see The Beautiful Game ending in an easy layup. I'll take that every time over Kyle chucking 3's.
Old highlights but still worthy of the church.
Dude is developing pretty well in his second year. Hope to see him improve into playoff level basketball.
The downside of KA is that he doesn't pass the eye-test. It's just like Bobo. Teams are not going to trade for these two because they appear to thrive only in a Spurs like system.
That's why he fell to us at 30. RC said that even in that deep draft, the Spurs only graded out 20 players as "first rounders", and Kyle was one of them.
I'm just curious why you seem to only view players as trade assets. The biggest trades of the last ten years were RJ to GS and Tiago to ATL. Neither was anything designed to improve talent, both being basically salary dumps. The Spurs just don't trade for players, normally. They scout, analyze, and sign the players they want.
When was the last real trade by the Spurs? Was that not the George Hill trade? Spurs could do it because Indiana believed Hill had upside.
Without that trade, the big 3 probably would have broken up a couple years ago.
I pointed out both Bobo and Kyle as not being trade assets as compared to other players in the team. I'm sure Spurs can get their money's worth trading Spurs more athletic players.
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