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PokeTransplant wrote: Sat Jan 12, 2019 9:17 pm
LanderPoke wrote: Sat Jan 12, 2019 7:07 pm
PokeTransplant wrote: Sat Jan 12, 2019 5:33 pm JJ = Overrated
The shot selection as of late has been:
Head down, charge in, throw up a prayer, hope for a foul.
Burn down the clock, dribble to top of key with 2 secs left, throw up a prayer, hope for a 3.
Call for the ball, dribble into double team, believe you have mastered the stepback, miss.

His defense has been non-existent as of late as well....

Been seeing a lot of passed shots, just to get it back into JJs hands to execute one of the above shots selections.

There is NO confidence on this team.
dude. He is doing the best he can. He’s pretty much the only bright spot
JJ is talented, but he is nowhere the elite talent he is being led to believe he is. JJ is in the same mold as Nance Jr and Josh Adams...he is an NBA talent, but he isn't an ELITE NBA talent. At best, he will be a role player on whatever team picks him up. For us as Cowboy fans to elevate him beyond his predecessors that brought back some semblance of the Cowboy BB we all know from the past is a disservice to JJ. Right now, he is in his own head thinking that he is the only option on the floor. Look at his past 4 games, and it is obvious that he is not. This coaching staff is desperation mode and they are staking their careers on the back of a guy that will be lucky to follow the path of Josh Adams at the next level. It's not fair to JJ and it's not fair to Poke fans that remember the days where teams were afraid to play us on our own floor with 10k fans in the stands.....
I'm not willing to compare to JJ to Nance Jr or Josh Adams even. Larry played significant minutes for a NBA conference champion and just got paid. Adams was an elite shooter and scorer and JJ to me has never shown the basketball smarts and efficiency that Adams did. Plenty of that has to do with Edwards, but this team is very comparable to the team in Adams last season when Shyatt was mailing it in. That year Adams carried a younger team and they won seven conference games. As others have said, we'll be lucky to see 2 this season. Will be pulling for JJ, but any pro success he has beyond Adams is based on size alone.
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