I’m not gonna write a young kids career off yet, though I understand the frustration. He’s had some flashes recently. But he has more consistent bad than even occasional good. It’s worrisome.
A lot of talk in here about complete lack of skill, but I think his issue is mostly upstairs.
He had positive stretches of camp and in practice, I know I know..we talking bout PRACTICE…Out here tryna get in the playoffs and we talking about PRACTICE….
But he consistently does things in practice scrimmages that normally indicate He should be at least not a total abomination half the time.
I think they’re hurting him by letting him just play through such poor stretches of basketball. JBB needs a quicker hook. Okoro gets down on himself really easily. You can see him hang his head after a bad play and it start permeating the rest of his game for that night.
I think there’s a lot going on mentally for him, I think he’s still not 100% physically in terms of trusting his body and that may be the case the rest of the season.
He should have less burden on his shoulders. He feels so responsible because he’s such a big part of our game plan with starting and playing big minutes. He should be playing 18-22 minutes. He should’ve getting taken out sooner after bad stretches. Let the guy play through a bad play here or there but if it’s half of the first quarter straight then maybe it’s time to yank him and give him a breather. Let him dissect what went wrong with an assistant. Then give him another shot later in the game to rectify it…but with. Quick leash.
I just think it’s too much, too fast for him. If he is going to be a good player it is going to take time, and it is going to take a lot of work but not during games. Putting him out there for 34 mins and expecting him to be a major component of a winning team beyond a 8th man energy guard is a recipe for the ongoing disaster.