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Kevin Love - Miami Ground Machine

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Is Kevin Love a Hero for Saving a Dog?

  • Yes

    Votes: 28 48.3%

  • Too Right!

    Votes: 2 3.4%

  • Hotter than Jimmy G

    Votes: 15 25.9%

  • Jim Chones

    Votes: 13 22.4%
  • Total voters
    58
2 For The Brew said:
LOL comparing Wade and Love as 3pt shooters. Dean Wade has made 176 in four years. Kevin Love made 187 in 2021-22 alone playing 22.5 mpg.

Volume matters. Guys like Royce O'Neal, Dena Wade and Isaac Okoro don't shoot enough to matter as offensive threats. Our team needs scoring but we continue to pursue & sign nonscorers.
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Can I ask why you’re lumping Royce O’Neale with Okoro and Wade? He shot more 3s per game than Okoro took FGA this season (5.5 to 4.7). His attempt rate isn’t as high as Love but am I wrong to say that’s a decent volume that would be valuable on this team full of bad shooters?
 
-Akronite- said:
Can I ask why you’re lumping Royce O’Neale with Okoro and Wade? He shot more 3s per game than Okoro took FGA this season (5.5 to 4.7). His attempt rate isn’t as high as Love but am I wrong to say that’s a decent volume that would be valuable on this team full of bad shooters?
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He's right in there with the other two as weak per 36 scorers. Like Wade he gets a higher percentage of his points from three but has no midrange game and doesn't get to the line. Okoro at 10.7 per 36 each of his three seasons is slightly above Royce (10.0 this year, his career high). At 29 I don't expect Royce to score much more than that.

All three are bench players IMHO. None score enough from the 3 to be starters for us with Allen weak offensively and Mobley developing.

Including Royce was deliberate on my part. He could help us off the bench but I think his scoring potential is overrated here.

Of course I could be wrong and he joins our team, starts at the three and bombs away like the Eighth Air Force. I just don't think it's as easy as "player X has a good three percentage, get him more attempts and more points follow." Nets got him more attempts and in 31-32 mpg his ppg went from 7.4 to 8.8. Still pretty lame scoring.
 
The Human Q-Tip said:
Then look at the per 36 numbers so you can take playing time out of it.

Player A shot 36.2% from 3, and made 1.4 per 36. He also shot 61.7% from 2, and made 2.5 per 36. Total eFG of 58.2%, scoring 10.7 per 36.

Player B shot 35.4% from 3, and made 1.8 per 36. He also shot 56% from 2, and made 1.1 per 36. Total eFG of 54%, scoring 8.3 per 36.

Player A is Okoro, Player B is Wade. At 8.3 points per 36, Wade is not only the lowest on the team in points scored per 36 minutes played, but is the only guy on the team below 10 points per 36.

And you call him a "shooter".

You act like people are just picking on Wade unfairly, but haven't you heard people here talk about how Okoro must take more shots to be an offensive threat? Are we all just picking on him unfairly too? And Wade not only shoots the ball even less than Okoro, but has lower percentages from both 3 and 2. So what would you expect people to say?

Dean doesn't take enough shots, even when he's got openings.
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It's disturbing JBB thought he needed a big role.

I think JBB, cares first if you defend, and if you don't, then you're in trouble. He doesn't really care if a guy brings different attributes to the team.

But even JBB realized, shit this guy sucks, I can't play him,
 
We prob need another vet who can play. Could we get Batum maybe? Feel like he would be good and he could play significant time with the starters without taking all the min because he is old.
 
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