Cavatt
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I'm about done with this kid. If I have to see him turn down another wide open 15-footer... just take the damn shot. You're wide open. You've hit it before. You're not getting a better look with 5 on the shot clock. LET. THAT. BALL. FLY.
This is the attitude I have a problem with. Torn just clearly demonstrated he can hit the shot. Now he has to take it when it is wide open. It is a sequential growth process. This player switched his shooting hand in ONE YEAR.
This season can be summed up in 2 words. Unrealistic expectations.
You act like he should be somewhere he could not possibly be at now. His progress is already amazing. He was raw as hell when he showed up, and now he has turned into a double double machine.
There are 2 things TT can do, and he will be a really nice player. Keep working on the jumper and increasing his percentage in the paint. He could be an allstar if he did those 2 things.
In one offseason he has learned to shoot. Not impressed? He literally could not shoot until this year?
You guys are buying into a narrative that Rchfld has been spouting for years now, and he has been repeatedly wrong. "Garbage only player, career bench player, never develop a jumpshot, totally out of control with his body, will never have an offensive game." Somehow despite developing more and more every year, everyone still thinks he is a finished product. Absurd.
TT is the best post defender at his age in the league. He can beat any pf in the league off the dribble. He has switched hands. He has raised his ft% by more than 20 percentage points. The reason I am a fan is that he has proven all the doubters wrong over and over. He is nowhere near a finished project. No other young guy on the team has improved so much, yet he is supposed to be even better right now? So stupid. If Kyrie could improve half as much as TT has, he would be the best pg in the league.
I don't have a problem with starting AB over TT, he just needs to show he can shoot first. Putting Bennett out there now is just like putting Zeller in the starting lineup last year. I will say it again, TT is not the problem, he is the most consistent young guy on the team. There are 2 other guys starting who are much bigger problems.
p.s. David West was 4-13 with 7 rebounds tonight. Probably was just feeling a little under the weather.