2013-2014 NBA Season

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by cmorioles

Are you saying he has played good defense? Because Scott Brooks would STRONGLY disagree. He has been benched for more than once in games lately. The Thunder don't really play man on man, they switch everything. They don't double. Jackson has not been doing what he is supposed to do out there.

So I found the article that talks about how opposing guards have "torched" Jackson using examples by name of the following guys.

Rubio was 4-13
Lawson was 7-16
Kemba Walker 6-17
Lillard 6-15
Deron Williams 10-17

Combined 33 for 78

[Cannon Shell]

Chris Paul is really even better than people think (the ones that understand that he is good not overrated because he has commercials)

http://stats.nba.com/playerTrackingP...ilters=GP*G*20

The tracking stats are just insanely good. I wish we had access to the rest of the data as they only give us a small %.

[Duvalier]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

I wish we had access to the rest of the data as they only give us a small %.

The NBA really has really done a great job with all the stats and information they've made available to fans. The video box scores they recently unveiled are great and the tracking stats are fantastic. What was the rest of the data you were talking about?

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by Duvalier

The NBA really has really done a great job with all the stats and information they've made available to fans. The video box scores they recently unveiled are great and the tracking stats are fantastic. What was the rest of the data you were talking about?

They supposedly have a ton of stuff that only the teams have available to them. The data that has been made available on the website is like 2% of the total.

[Duvalier]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

They supposedly have a ton of stuff that only the teams have available to them. The data that has been made available on the website is like 2% of the total.

Out of the NFL, MLB and NBA who do you think is best as far as providing information to it's fans? I think the NBA has really done a great job with it recently.

[cmorioles]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

So I found the article that talks about how opposing guards have "torched" Jackson using examples by name of the following guys.

Rubio was 4-13
Lawson was 7-16
Kemba Walker 6-17
Lillard 6-15
Deron Williams 10-17

Combined 33 for 78

I haven't seen the article. I go to the games. He was guarding Courtney Lee the other night. He couldn't stay in front of him. But like I said, the Thunder aren't very big on guarding guys straight up anyway. I don't think many NBA teams are with the pick and roll. The Thunder switch everything, and Jackson has not been doing a good job. The chances Jackson winds up on the guy that plays his position when the shot is taken aren't that high.

Like I said, he has been benched for long stretches in games recently because of his defense, but you ignored that. I guess you think I made it up.

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by cmorioles

I haven't seen the article. I go to the games. He was guarding Courtney Lee the other night. He couldn't stay in front of him. But like I said, the Thunder aren't very big on guarding guys straight up anyway. I don't think many NBA teams are with the pick and roll. The Thunder switch everything, and Jackson has not been doing a good job. The chances Jackson winds up on the guy that plays his position when the shot is taken aren't that high.

Like I said, he has been benched for long stretches in games recently because of his defense, but you ignored that. I guess you think I made it up.

He has been playing 32 minutes a game

[cmorioles]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

He has been playing 32 minutes a game

What does that have to do with being benched for poor D on a few occasions?

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by cmorioles

What does that have to do with being benched for poor D on a few occasions?

How many minutes a game do you think he is going to play? While he may have been taken out of the game for something defense related on occasions he is still playing starters minutes

[cmorioles]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

How many minutes a game do you think he is going to play? While he may have been taken out of the game for something defense related on occasions he is still playing starters minutes

I would say for a team with Derek Fisher as the only other point guard on the roster, 38 minutes wouldn't be unreasonable. Obviously they were taking it slow this year with Westbrook, so his minutes were down, but generally he played around 40 in prior seasons. To me, 32 minutes says he isn't doing enough to earn more time, because the minutes are there if Brooks wants him to have them.

As an example, look at Darren Collison's minutes in Paul's stead.

Reggie himself admitted his defense has been sub-par. Not sure there is much more to add to that.

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by cmorioles

I would say for a team with Derek Fisher as the only other point guard on the roster, 38 minutes wouldn't be unreasonable. Obviously they were taking it slow this year with Westbrook, so his minutes were down, but generally he played around 40 in prior seasons. To me, 32 minutes says he isn't doing enough to earn more time, because the minutes are there if Brooks wants him to have them.

As an example, look at Darren Collison's minutes in Paul's stead.

Reggie himself admitted his defense has been sub-par. Not sure there is much more to add to that.

38 minutes a game would be 4th in the league. Westbrook never has averaged more than 35 min a game in any season.

32 min a game is a big jump for a guy that has never played more than 14 a game.

Collison is averaging 33.5 min a game sine Paul went down however regardless of unpleasant the option of playing Fischer at PG the Clippers dont even have a 3rd PG that can trump that extremely low bar.

[RockHardTen1985]

Couple huge games tonight. Hoping my West teams can hold home court tonight against 2 of the best teams in the NBA.