Max Christie Discussion: Defensive Impact

another solid signing by Rob

 

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.

 

Cam showed more defensive effort in 14 minutes than our young 3&D wing has shown this season

 

my problem is we've seen this show with reddish before. he'll do it for a few games than fall off the map.

 

Cam has always been better than Max. Took his minutes last year and will eventually do it again.

 

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.

 

another Pelinka special signing

 

I like Max, but you have to produce. It's really that straightforward at this point.

 

Kobe's secret son or not, if you don't produce, you won't play.

 

Toklat...where you at?

 

Max is not playing well at all. Pressure getting to him as an expected contributor

 

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.

 

He’s not even consistent enough to play for Shanghai.

 

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.

 

we drafted him as a favor to his Dad may he RIP.

 

Lol..Max Sr. is going to come looking for you one day bro.