BimboColesHair
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Dion is a talented guard, but some of y'all are overhyping him a bit. He's an inconsistent overall shooter and that's the truth. Can and will he get better this season? Absolutely! Should he take a lot of open shots within the flow of the offense? Absolutely! Does he sometimes take a few quick open shots when he'd be better off moving the ball? He does.
I have no problems with him taking a lot of shots if the ball keeps coming back to him after everyone else touches it, but he still has some bad habits that he'll have to get rid of and to be fair, he's not the only one.
Curious, Bandwagoner, how much of Dion have you seen the past 2 years or are you just basing this off of the few games you have seen him play in a brand new system with brand new players? Does Dion have his warts? Yes. No one who supports him is going to say he is a flawless player, but too often the "he's an inconsistent shooter", "he's a chucker", "he has low basktball IQ" pops up from people who have not watched our team the past few years with Dion on it. As said many times before in this thread, he is a very good spot up shooter, better than a lot of big name 3 point shooters in the league, and shoots 39.8% with his jumpers, which is a pretty good number considering much more hyped shooters like Bradley Beal (I bring him up a lot, I know) shot 38.6% on his jumpers, and even Kyrie who shot 38.3% on his jumpers last year, albeit in what I believe to be a fluke year for him shooting. For a reference as to where Dion's 40% on jumpers stands amongst his peers, Klay Thompson, probably the best of the young SGs in the league IMO, shot 41.1% on his jumpers last year, and he was assisted on 76.7% of those jumpers compared to Dion on 53.6%. With more talent and more ball movement in our system, I'd expect Dion's assisted % to go up pretty significantly this year, and we already know how good of a spot up shooter he is, so I can expect that % for his jumper to go up as well.
As for this preseason, I can't tell you how many times I've seen Dion swing the ball, and the ball comes back to him for an open 3, which I have no problem with a 37% shooter from 3 taking. Maybe once or twice a game he does his two dribble pull up from just inside the 3 point line, which even I hate, but the rest of his 10+ shots are all in the flow of the offense. Kyrie breaks plays off to ISO, LeBron breaks plays off to ISO, but heaven forbid if Dion breaks a play off to ISO for himself, he isn't a fit! Everything this guy does is critiqued under a microscope, it really is amusing. LeBron was right when he said most of the blame would be coming Dion's way when things don't look right. This thread proves his point.