My comment was that he shot a higher 3PT % than a majority of the guards and forwards in last year's all conference team.
He is good at help defense but he is still a very poor defender as he cannot stay with anyone of quickness and he often gets caught off his man leaving him wide open for 3 pointers watch the Michigan first half Wagner repeatedly torched him and blew by him and Wagner is 6'9"
I think he's become an above average defender, with his help D being stronger than his on ball D. But still a net plus.
During the Michigan game announcers pointed out how two scorers moved to Michigan and became more role players.. Even as starters. We have shooter.. PM could and should shoot more in specific cases.. But his best value could be in assists, boards and help D. I saw him find and box out #23 last night on the D boards.. That was nice and not uncommon
I think that was pretty clearly stated in my original post that this is what I was doing. Glad you finally caught on lol.
He finally shot more from the outside in yesterday's game. I'm sure the coaching staff is on him to take more shots when he's open. We have all seen him dribble inside and instead of shooting he looks to pass it. Sometimes that works brilliantly and other times he ends up forcing a pass that goes to the other team. IMO, he needs to shoot more especially when he's open outside.
Ok. Please muse a little more speed into his defense and give him a step-back too. With the floater and the 37% from three, we’ve got a player of the year candidate!
MJ should eschew Space Camp this summer for a Big Man Camp (enginerd joke)... that little hook could be great for him but it just doesn't go in enough. He needs to watch film of Garza outside and say to himself.. with practice.. I can do that. Once opponents worry about that he can dish for open threes (as help comes to him) or sucker a big man outside then beat him to the rim.
This is your third reference to Top 30, why is this such an important metric? What is PM's actual rank?
Not sure exactly. I think he's just outside the top 30. But, if his current best skill--the one that provides the supposed foundation for a future all conference selection--falls outside the league top 30, he's already not performing that particular skill at an all conference level. Even just outside the top 20 wouldn't qualify. You better do other things incredibly well--all-conferencely well. Put another way, if you're looking for him to add other skills to the thing you think he already does best to thereby become an all conference player, it's worth looking at whether the thing you believe he currently does best is even good enough. Right now, it isn't.
Nobody said that was his best skill! I was saying that it was a decent enough foundation to build on if he was ABLE to EXPAND his offensive game...building on his passing and general vision, AND adding a floater that opened up his passing and playmaking.
It's also just a waste of time to go into this level of depth arguing against my original point, which was just a random hypothetical in the first place.
That's right. Three-point shooting wasn't his best skill. It's just the one that, in your mind, was a foundation to build on. Even in this last post, you deviate from that within the same sentence and add that he should also build on his passing and his vision. You're everywhere. There's no strawmen here, just you shucking and jiving with every new post as folks challenge your original opinion, which you posted in a new thread and invited comments on. Your musings and ever more malleable positions on how he can become all conference make it hard to even know what you're saying. But here's where you started:
Baloney. Your quote of his was fine. If he shot 37% from 3 and doubled or trippled the number of threes.. He would be all-conference. How can you doubt that? He'd be a double digits scorer along with his other value.
It wasn’t even my main point. I was just pointing out that I thought he’s got room to grow as a scorer and I’d like to see him open up his game and take a few more shots and that’ll make a big difference for us. But you know, fighters gonna fight.
So why do you think arguing with a hypothetical is a good idea? The "given" was that he shoots alot more and maintains the 37% 3-point shooting. Instead of 6 points a game he goes to 12 or even 18.. is that a third team all-Big Ten number? Joe Weiskamp was 3rd team last year with a 14pt average. So.. how can you argue that PM wouldn't be at least honorable mention with numbers like that? You make no sense.
