Brandon Ingram Discussion: He Is Who We Thought He Could Be

hes just to slow and methodical, he's pretty much Wiggins like to me now. Can put up #'s but feels so empty, he might've scored 20+ but felt so invisible out there and more of a hindarance than help

 

Kuz made up for his 3pt fouling but hitting a 3 right after, prior to that play Ingram wasted multiple position milking the clock (this is coaching intented IMO) and then of course he exacerbates everything with his piss poor FT shooting

 

I'd rather him just play a different role that accentuates his positives. But if he's considered a redundant talent, then I get it. But NOBODY is a good point forward at his age besides a handful of all time greats that played that role their whole lives up to that point. Seems premature to throw in the towel on a kid that is a gifted as he is, and who words as hard on his game as he does.

Once he grows into that body and hones his skills and stays within his game, he'll be a consistent 20/10/5 guy every night with great D. (My prediction) You need guys like that on your roster. I'm glad he has the balls to stretch his game, but it is painful to watch sometimes. But he has bigger balls than others on this team.

 

I'm sure he did....but BI struggles is both him and coaching, the killing of the clock was probably dictated by walton because almost every play down the stretch everyone kept passing it to Ingram knowing and seeing that he just holds onto the ball but his decision making and weak handle doesn't bode well to be the key ISO guy

 

someone has to go, and it may be that he's the one that fits the least

but if Lebron has a career ending injury, we will really need him.

 

yeah BI should not be running the point

this says it all

 

this yr so far BI does not play winning ball, his 20pts look like Wiggins 20pts, non impactful stat padding types

 

Thank you for this cause imo they both cost us the game. Kuz fouling the 3 point shooter and missing a layup and Ingram missing a free throw.

 

except he didn't shoot 50% last night. He was 8-19, and Kuzma was 12-24

 

still decent, but his impact on D will be more appreciated if he would just stay within himself on O. He's trying to do things he's not great at.

 

What is he good at on offense, really?

15 ft pull-ups? There's just not a market for this unless you're prime dirk.

It's hard to see where he fits in a modern offense until he can hit open threes and find cutting lanes more effectively.

 

or attack faster, im not sure if its by design but almost every time he gets a pass it takes 2-3 secs before he decides to do something and then another 10secs or so to pass it away because he can't do something lol

 

Randle was the same; frustrating.

 

BI needs a different mentor, Stackhouse is his main guy and his game was also iso heavy from what I recall. Dude was beast offensively but never seemed like the kind that helped win games....from the way this looking BI gona look a lesser version of Gay and Gay finally in his 30's is hitting 3's better and more in the game type O now and not a ball dominant guy anymore

edit-just wanted to add, the advance metrics dont look good for BI, if his game dont change to more off-ball and less ball pounding we pretty much have a Wiggins type of a prospect, lets just hope if that happens we dont get stupid and give him max ext. like Wiggins got

 

man 3 straight #2's and none are even remotely in the talent pool of say a Doncic type