D'Angelo Russell Discussion: Adopting A Professional Attitude

Russell only took seven shots man. He's not a Steph Curry as far as shooting the basketball right now and I'm not sure there will ever be someone like him. His passing ability and his court vision along with his size is always what impressed me most.

 

I actually agree. He had solid debut but he definitely looked like an Al Jefferson to me. I don't see him as a defender and that's why I think we passed on him.

And there is no way he would have scored that many points with us because we wouldn't have gotten him the ball.

 

Most especially when the front office did what LB told them not to do ..... get "cute" with the 2nd pick and pass on the future all star Big Man option in Okafor, who wanted to be a Laker in the worst way. Clarkson wasn't looking all that shabby at the point, pick up Huertas and some other PG vet minimum and we're good to go. Byron is using Jordan as much as Russell that way anyway last night. Smack all our heads.

 

Steph may be the best shooter of all time. I'm going to at least wait until game five before I expect that kind of shooting from Russell. Lol.

 

Me too. Always drawn to him mainly for his passing and playmaking. Which is why I was so irritated by us playing him at the two. If you watched him play in college then you know he plays better with the ball in his hands and generally let the game come to him instead of forcing the issue.

 

We should put Hibbert @ the 2 to ease his workload too.

 

Yeah. That makes zero sense but I am trying to just take the win that we are at least playing Russell where he belongs.

 

Well, that is the general consensus now, but Mudiay was the better pure PG prospect back in March/April. It is the shooting of Russell that put him over the edge. You have to understand we've been dissecting these lottery picks for months now, before you joined.

And I'm judging him based on his summer league and preseason games, not just yesterday's game.

 

Also, Russell's stats from preseason are probably better than most of you think especially when you factor in usage rate.


PER

1) Karl-Anthony Towns...25.0
2) D'Angelo Russell........19.4
3) Stanley Johnson........17.9
4) Willie Cauley-Stein.....16.0
5) Mario Hezonja...........13.4
6) Kristaps Porzingis.......12.8
7) Frank Kaminsky..........12.7
8) Emmanuel Mudiay.......11.5
9) Justise Winslow...........11.1
10) Jahlil Okafor................5.2

Offensive Rating

1) Willie Cauley-Stein.......122.1
2) D'Angelo Russell..........109.3
3) Karl-Anthony Towns.....109.1
4) Stanley Johnson..........100.9
4) Justise Winslow.............92.2
5) Mario Hezonja...............91.3
9) Frank Kaminsky.............86.6
8) Emmanuel Mudiay.........84.3
9) Kristaps Porzingis..........84.1
10) Jahlil Okafor................73.3

Usage Rate

1) Jahlil Okafor.................32.4%
2) Emmanuel Mudiay.........30.6%
3) Stanley Johnson............24.6%
4) Kristaps Porzingis..........24.5%
5) Mario Hezonja...............23.5%
6) Karl-Anthony Towns.......23.2%
7) Frank Kaminsky.............22.2%
8) D'Angelo Russell............19.8%
9) Justise Winslow.............14.3%
10) Willie Cauley-Stein.......10.6%

True Shooting %

1) Karl-Anthony Towns.....59.4%
2) Willie Cauley-Stein.......53.7%
3) Mario Hezonja.............53.4%
4) D'Angelo Russell..........51.4%
5) Stanley Johnson...........50.7%
6) Emmanuel Mudiay........45.8%
T-7) Jahlil Okafor..............44.5%
T-7) Frank Kaminsky.........44.5%
9) Kristaps Porzingis.........40.9%
10) Justise Winslow..........40.0%

Rebounding Percentage

1) Karl-Anthony Towns.....18.5%
2) Frank Kaminsky...........15.9%
3) Willie Cauley-Stein.......14.5%
4) Kristaps Porzingis........14.2%
5) Justise Winslow...........10.7%
6) Jahlil Okafor................10.2%
7) Stanley Johnson............9.9%
8) D'Angelo Russell...........9.0%
9) Mario Hezonja..............6.3%
10) Emmanuel Mudiay.......5.3%

Assist Percentage

1) D'Angelo Russell..........33.5%
2) Emmanuel Mudiay........29.8%
3) Justise Winslow............22.3%
4) Stanley Johnson...........13.8%
5) Kristaps Porzingis.........12.9%
6) Frank Kaminsky............12.6%
7) Mario Hezonja...............8.2%
8) Jahlil Okafor..................8.1%
9) Karl-Anthony Towns.......6.9%
10) Willie Cauley-Stein.......0.0%

Turnover Percentage

1) Willie Cauley-Stein.........5.8%
2) Stanley Johnson...........13.9%
T-3) Justise Winslow..........15.7%
T-3) Kristaps Porzingis.......15.7%
5) D'Angelo Russell...........16.3%
T-6) Karl-Anthony Towns....17.0%
T-6) Frank Kaminsky.........17.0%
8) Mario Hezonja..............20.3%
9) Jahlil Okafor.................22.4%
10) Emmanuel Mudiay.......22.7%

 

Now this is surprising.

From these rankings his stats would seem alot higher than his preseason average of: 6.9 PTS, 3.3 AST, 2.4 REB, 38.6 FG%, 29.4 3P%

 

Just got an espn update about Russell moving to his position. He got the 6th most touches. Your #2 pick, you future, your lead guard...6th most touches. If that's how Scott plans to use him, he needs to go. If that's the plan the FO is ok with, then it was a horrible, wasted pick with no contingency of if LMA went elsewhere (which he obviously did).

And a quick note on Jah. The 70centers have no PG. I expect a high TO rate right now given who they have feeding him the ball.

 

Can't overlook usage rate

 

Yeah. The amount of touches he got is just absurd.

 

Neither Kidd or Paul listened to Byron. If they did, they would SUCK under his tenure .