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Make a ing shot.
^ He had a bad shooting season last year it’s possible the fluke was him shooting 38% from 3 two seasons ago and this is who he really is, but it’s early and I am hoping he catches fire sometime, but we’ll see.
Make a ing shot.
I feel like it’s a bad case of performance anxiety. If he can continue to rebound, hustle and play within the system then I imagine he will loosen up and they’ll start to fall. Would be nice to see him hit a couple to make defenses pay some attention to him, though.
I agree. He's new, it'll come naturally as the season makes progress.
so far he's really annoying me.
If he can hit a corner 3 reliably and keep up the rebounding, this will be a great reclamation project
I’m going to start calling him “Yesterday’s bread”. We only have him because everything else good was sold out. You pick it up and tell yourself it looks fine on the outside. When you bite into your sandwich you realize it sucks and you should have went to another store and got fresh bread, but now you are stuck with yesterday’s bread.
I'm impressed by his rebounding. He's actively hitting those spots and cleaning the boards. I don't think he was much of a shooter to begin with and don't expect much, but whenever you start a new job, your old skills can fall off as you learn new ones.
Is Lyles the first spurs player since Rodman to get 10 are more rebounds and have 0 points?
The most intriguing thing about Lyles is that he will turn 24 in a few days. He's young and has some upside to him. But him scoring 0 points is not a good sign. He has to be able to at least put up 8-10, that's not too much to ask from a starter
The thread le is quite apt. Lyles is the anti-Bertans. He can do everything but score.
Things that transfer to the post season
I like it that he doesn’t push scoring. It will come naturally. I like to play with people who’ll play defense and rebound the ball, not try to complain about not scoring. He moves well. He has very high bball iq. He will get open.
I just don't like him. I'm glad he's rebounding and moving the ball, but this isn't the "Beautiful Game" roster anymore where there are loads of finishers. The only finisher in the SL is Forbes right now. He might be more useful off the bench with Poeltl, Mills and Beli, since he and White can share the ball. Maybe Rudy's superior shooting would help the SL avoid the slow starts they've been off to recently. There seems to be things Lyles does better than Gay like rebounding and staying on quicker players. I just don't really think those things are more important than the near-complete lack of shooting.
He can't even hit a chip shot, let alone a 3 pointer...rebounds are nice but we have enough problems scoring in a lot of games, with him out there, it's like we are playing 4 on 5.
He's 9th in Rebounding % among players who've played 100+ minutes. I thought it was encouraging when he called for the ball and shot a 3 with confidence last night even though it didn't go in. I think he'll be fine.
Hoping it comes. In any event, I like taking a chance on a reclamation project whose really close to playing themselves out of the league. Feels like he’s aware of that given his play.
Another player I’d like for that is Bender. Sure most of that I’ll will flame out, but there’s a chance it clicks for one and that’s worth a gamble.
Lyles seems like he is defending OK, rebounding well and meshing in.
More scoring would be nice. His promising start to me earns him time to find his offensive game.
Lyles knows this is basically his last shot in the nba. Nest stop is Europe. He is buying into what the spurs are saying because he finally has an opportunity to start and consistently play. Sometimes you need a hustle, energy player and he is providing the Spurs that which is lacking on this team. Still miss Bertans outside shooting.
No hesitation. Not like Kyle Anderson.
He's definitely hesitating on shots, he did against GSW. He has a fairly open looks, up fakes, drives and then passes. Kyle Anderson is actually a pretty good comparison but worse defensively and teams think he can shoot.
Hopefully he can start knocking down jumpers but i'm skeptical.
He’s a great utilitarian player, tbh, I like him. Unlike Bertans which always looked like he had a higher ceiling but never quite delivered on that, you sorta know what you’re getting with this guy.
The best value that the current Lyles bring is to give the Spurs an extra or 2 second chances and to allow LMA and DDR to exert abit lesser on rebounding which allows them to be a bit more effective in 4Q.
Pop called him a good shooter and said he has to stop hesitating, so he must shoot it well in practice
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