ralph
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Dang forgot about him…
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Yeah - me too, easy to forget 7’4".
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love ya man … also love guys who accuse others of hate when simply opining or presenting data and facts … all 6 of those guys have tasted playing in an NBA game.
All 6 were our best producers per minute played that year.
Should I say you hate Braxton Key???
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NBA is irrelevant. We’re just talking about that year. He played only 35% of the minutes our last five games. He defended and rebounded incredibly. But wasn’t particularly skilled that year nor would I call him particularly athletic, at least not in the way that Hav described. He was a great role player. We had super skilled scoring players players matched perfectly with role players that year.
This season we had a bunch of role players and very few skilled scores. My whole point was we need more skilled scoring players and less role players. When Key became the man the next year he struggled tremendously to score the ball.
Lol they owe us
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This is a quibble, but I think Kyle Guy was much more athletic than people give him credit. People didn’t think of him as explosive, but I suspect a lot of that was that his game. He was never blowing past people to the hoop. But a lot of plus-athletes weren’t able to stay with him on the perimeter.
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Yes, from an offensive player for sure, but I was thinking more about it in the defensive way. he wasn’t great there.
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Seriously? Key broke his hand that year. But you do you. Look how he shot in 2019 and now.
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Key’s offensive efficiencies his 4 years in college. 100 is average.
94.8
95.5
112.4 (went way up because all he had to do was score on putbacks)
94.8
He had a wrist injury, not hand, and it was early in the year and his non-shooting hand. I’m glad that he worked on his scoring following those years and has been showing out in the G League. He was an instrumental part of our championship as a defending and rebounding role player.
Was torn between no impact and less likely. A nice run to MSG, especially with an ultimate win, could’ve felt like a nice capstone to his career. Or it could have spurred him to try again next year. I honestly don’t know Kihei’s personality enough to know. I voted for less likely on the “capstone” theory. He does seem to have a healthy dose of wanting to prove the haters wrong … which is good.
In 2019 for offensive and defensive ratings - there were 8 guys in the rotation.
The net rating for each:
Hunter +30.9
Huff +37.8
Guy +25.2
Jerome +28.2
Key +29.9
Diakite +24.7
Salt +24.9
Clark +10.1
One of these was not like the others.
Let’s steer this back to transfer portal. Haven’t heard many any names out of the ACC yet, wonder who is a part of the annual Pittsburg exodus this year
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Khalid Moore from Ga Tech and Horton and Collier from Pitt already in
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Yeah, no. We can’t have a discussion if you are going to use ridiculous defensive ratings statistics to prove a point. They are absolutely worthless in general, but especially so when discussing a player as a whole. And even more worthless when the whole discussion is about athleticism and scoring skill. You keep changing the subject and stats to fit your narrative.
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C’mon, folks. Stay focused!
This is the Transfer Portal thread. The Vent Thread is over there (points elsewhere).
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DBPM? Key was 1st
Defensive win shares per 40? Key was 1st.
And Key had a 115 offensive rating that year. Clark was 107.1 … which was also Clark’s best year by far as it was Key’s
When do we typically start seeing the mass exodus of transfers nationally? Have to think the next week or two will be pretty crazy as teams have their exit interviews
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