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So long, Kay Felder

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Just wait until he figures out how to use his quickness to his advantage. Right now, he doesn't really have a change in gears, but the good news is he's playing with maybe the best in the game at changing speeds. Once he learns how to do that, combined with his incredible leaping ability, and improving touch around the rim, he should surprise some people.
 
Czvosec said:
Just wait until he figures out how to use his quickness to his advantage. Right now, he doesn't really have a change in gears, but the good news is he's playing with maybe the best in the game at changing speeds. Once he learns how to do that, combined with his incredible leaping ability, and improving touch around the rim, he should surprise some people.
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He should really stalk IT this summer.

Or Earl Boykins (who is from and lives in Cleveland).
 
Dude can't seem to put together a full game.

Was awesome in the 1st half on both sides of the ball.

Then in the 3rd shit the bed and gave the Knicks a ton of momentum by trying to do way too much.

Its clear he has the talent to play in the league...but he is drastically inconsistent. Pretty easy to see why there are calls for another PG on the roster from players and coaches.
 
BimboColesHair said:
Dude can't seem to put together a full game.

Was awesome in the 1st half on both sides of the ball.

Then in the 3rd shit the bed and gave the Knicks a ton of momentum by trying to do way too much.

Its clear he has the talent to play in the league...but he is drastically inconsistent. Pretty easy to see why there are calls for another PG on the roster from players and coaches.
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That stretch in the 3rd was bad but no one tried to take the pressure off of him. Any one of those plays was a prime teaching moment for the coaching staff to tell Kay to settle down and to call out some of the vets for zero movement, yet no timeout was taken. Running Kay out there without even a semi-ball handlers (Shump, Liggins, or McRae) was asking for that type of melt down.

Give him some consistent minute when Kyrie is back and let him develop with another ball handler so one bad play doesn't snowball into a terrible quarter and half.
 
Lue seems weirdly discombobulated as a coach right now. It's like he's running scared because he doesn't have enough players he trusts and he's improvising lineups to win games. So he is massively overplaying Lebron, not pulling Kay out when he needs some calming down and instruction, etc.
 
inliner311 said:
That stretch in the 3rd was bad but no one tried to take the pressure off of him. Any one of those plays was a prime teaching moment for the coaching staff to tell Kay to settle down and to call out some of the vets for zero movement, yet no timeout was taken. Running Kay out there without even a semi-ball handlers (Shump, Liggins, or McRae) was asking for that type of melt down.

Give him some consistent minute when Kyrie is back and let him develop with another ball handler so one bad play doesn't snowball into a terrible quarter and half.
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He was out there with that same group to end the 1st quarter when Lebron went out with 3+ minutes left...that's not a good enough excuse.

I think his foul on Jennings in the 2nd quarter pissed Jennings off a bit and he went at Kay extremely hard in the 2nd half, and Kay took it personal and tried to go back at him 1-on-1, instead of running the team like he did in the first half.

He was making the proper plays, drove to set up shooters, picked his spots, pulled up and stayed away from the bigs to get good looks...in the 2nd half he did the opposite.

Growing pains for a young guy...clear he has talent and can play in the league, but he needs to learn how to run an NBA team as a PG a little better. You can get away with 1-on-1 shit in college when the talent gap is wider, but it doesn't fly in the NBA, and as we just saw, can hurt the team in a big way.
 
Think he has all the tools to be an exciting and productive player for us...just needs to gain some more experience and no when to reign it in at times
 
As good as he was in the first half he was twice as bad in the second half.
 
Lue definitlely can go to the film and light Kay up on that third quarter.

Good teaching moment to be had.
 
TyGuy said:
As good as he was in the first half he was twice as bad in the second half.
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Pretty much sums up his season to this point. One half you're thinking to yourself "screw looking for another PG, let him play more", the next you are praying he gets off the court ASAP.
 
BimboColesHair said:
He was out there with that same group to end the 1st quarter when Lebron went out with 3+ minutes left...that's not a good enough excuse.

I think his foul on Jennings in the 2nd quarter pissed Jennings off a bit and he went at Kay extremely hard in the 2nd half, and Kay took it personal and tried to go back at him 1-on-1, instead of running the team like he did in the first half.

He was making the proper plays, drove to set up shooters, picked his spots, pulled up and stayed away from the bigs to get good looks...in the 2nd half he did the opposite.

Growing pains for a young guy...clear he has talent and can play in the league, but he needs to learn how to run an NBA team as a PG a little better. You can get away with 1-on-1 shit in college when the talent gap is wider, but it doesn't fly in the NBA, and as we just saw, can hurt the team in a big way.
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He definately wasn't making good decisions out there. I brought up the lineup because if Lue isn't willing to take a timeout to slow Felder down and teach him. They need another ball handler that Lue can call a play for and take the ball out of Felder hands for a play or two.
 
wremy said:
Think he has all the tools to be an exciting and productive player for us...just needs to gain some more experience and no when to reign it in at times
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I agree. But that ain't happening this year. And given our lack of assets, his development timeline may require putting him in a deal somewhere.

Unless, of course, there's a buyout or a free agent as a short term PG solution.
 
inliner311 said:
He definately wasn't making good decisions out there. I brought up the lineup because if Lue isn't willing to take a timeout to slow Felder down and teach him. They need another ball handler that Lue can call a play for and take the ball out of Felder hands for a play or two.
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That's not Lue's style...he went to the Phil Jackson school of timeout usage.

If the team is struggling, more times than not he forces them to figure it out on their own.

I'm sure he'll be keying up that game film tomorrow though...
 
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