shocked out how bad he's been after the FO made the commitment. in the preseason, the one positive i saw was that max and gabe looked playable. i thought that was crucial to our success. they're not, and we're not succeeding. worried that reddish getting his minutes is going to further kill the confidence whilst not providing us much on the floor, either.
my problem is we've seen this show with reddish before. he'll do it for a few games than fall off the map.
Wasn’t some of that due to his own nagging injury(s) which slowed him down, on top of the offensive shortcomings?
Similar to vando every time Cam got in a groove last year he got hurt. Right after the NBA cup, injured, comes back played great against Harden (watch the film) and then Harden flops into him trying to draw a foul and he went down for the final time. Never really recovered after that. God I hate harden.
I'm honestly baffled. He's shown signs of being a solid NBA player but he just is not performing at all.
Where is this coming from? I feel there is this idea that Max showed real flashes last year and Ham held him back. From what I saw I thought he was terrible in the second half of last year and had no confidence in him after that. He had one good defensive performance against Mitchell and I think those highlights have just stuck with people. In the second half of last year the book seemed to be out on him that he has no on between or finesse game so he kept getting baited into trying a 2 hand dunk attempt right into a shot blocker or just stripped him.
Last year he had a couple periods of trying to play injured and the defense dropped off. Never got it back after the second one.
Well his draft class was rather top heavy. It might take another season or two for some of these guys to find their place in the League. Kokolo was drafted a couple of slots ahead of Max. We basically got him for free(health situation noted tho) With so many kids coming out early now, it's a bit of a crapshoot with the projections. https://www.nba.com/news/2022-nba-draft-order
I’ve never got the infatuation with Max. And his reputed defensive chops has been a myth to this point.