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Isaac 3 & D Okoro - A Two Way Playing Basketball Savant

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Who is Isaac Okoro's Favorite Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Emperor?

  • Arcadius (if one does not count Constantine as first)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Justinian the Great

    Votes: 8 14.3%
  • Zeno

    Votes: 2 3.6%
  • Heraclius

    Votes: 3 5.4%
  • Basil II, the Bulgar Slayer

    Votes: 6 10.7%
  • Nikephoros II Phokas, the Pale Death of the Saracens

    Votes: 7 12.5%
  • Alexios I Komnenos

    Votes: 4 7.1%
  • John II, the Beautiful Komnenos

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Constantine XI

    Votes: 4 7.1%
  • Jim I Chones, the Magnificent

    Votes: 26 46.4%

  • Total voters
    56
Okoro shouldn't be playing anymore and should be getting reps in the G League. That's my opinion. This team isn't bottom of the barrel anymore. We can't afford to handicap our offense all season long as if our prime motive for this year is developing the #5 pick we likely blew. More than giving ourselves the best chance of making the playoffs. More than developing our other much more talented young players whose games are hurt by the fact that they have to play 4v5 on offense every night. It's just such a joke at this point.

I don't even know why I bother even complaining anymore though because nothing's going to change. We're just gonna keep having to exert so much fucking energy on defense every night just to try to claw out wins because we sacrifice so many points on the offensive end with this guy out there.
I agree with you 100% I know he needs to develop but that’s why we got the g league.
 
Hopefully a poster here possesses a better grasp of NBA history and point me to a guard who was able to rectify a general inability to dribble and shoot during their NBA career.

I have no reason to think Okoro is not a good kid but I have to call it like I see it. He totally lacks the skills to be a good offensive player. Which is sad because he sees the floor well and is so explosive. The hand eye coordination isn’t there and he knows it. No confidence.
His finishing (looks awful there too) was touted in his draft profile that's what laughable about it, he can't even dribble to the rim because his handle is so putrid. Doesn't even look like he belongs in the NBA.
 
I just dont understand why they are rewarding him with so many minutes when hes not earning it. I just dont get it. Koby needs to change his whole approach in Okoro's development and ease him in instead of letting him play through the fire. Our team is too good to waste minutes on someone who is not close to ready as an offensive player.

Just fucking make a trade Koby. I know we can get a better offensive player SG/SF than Okoro with a couple 2nd rounders.
 
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I’m still waiting on him to flash any skill that makes it look like he’s a regular rotation player. The shot is obviously not there. I don’t see anything from a ball handling/facilitating aspect that is remotely close. He’s athletic, but undersized. The only thing he really has going for him is that we made a significant investment in him by taking him so early.

However, that alone should not guarantee him playing time on a team that looks like it’s ready to compete. It’s a tough pill to swallow for the front office to put a high lotto pick in his 2nd year in the G league, but he definitely looks like he needs some confidence and that is not being gained at this level.
 
If this team keeps on beating up nonelite teams, Altman will be under pressure for upgrades by February.
 
He has to be the most frustrating player on this team.
 
You can't tell me there aren't better options playing in the G League right now.

Okoro has clearly lost all confidence. It sucks to send a former #5 pick to the G League but that's exactly where he belongs right now.
 
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.
 
The Giannis block ended this kids career. He's absolutely never going to recover mentally from it.

Time to move on.
 
Gonna keep saying that the best stretch this season was the first 4 games coming off the bench. He can play with Rubio and generally be guarded by lesser defensive players.

Go back to that and see what happens.

I get that 4 games is a tiny, tiny sample size and it might have been nothing. But they gotta do something different here.
 

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