As good a shooter as Filzen is, he absolutely cannot create space. You have to run plays for him and use teammates to try and spring him.
OMG. Never heard that argument before. Can't create space, stands in the corner. You guys who hold on to this argument ever take time to think it through and really look at that player in an open gym.
If he doesn't do it in a game, it's completely irrelevant. I can sink a ton of free throws in a row in a casual setting. Won't matter a bit if I can't do it when it counts. I will say this is illustrative of the different ways in which we think.
Perhaps it is a product of the offense they are in and what role the coach has defined for them.
Perhaps. But I doubt Reggie made Filzen one of the centerpieces of his offense and simultaneously neglected to incorporate his abilities to put the ball on the floor and get to the line.
I know the only chance for you to see them is what you seee on the floor
Yeah, I judge on results. I'm weird like that.
but to label a kid with this shows ignorance toward his real abilities and lets me know you may not know as much about hoops as portrayed.
To paraphrase you, this again? Someone disagrees with you and they don't know basketball. Buy a new hat, please.
I have seen Filzen take guys off the dribble as well as off the curl making the choice to go to the hole or rise up lightneing quick and shoot over the screen while his defender slipped under.
Me too. But have you seen
Filzen do it? There's a decent chance I saw him play more than you last season. This is not part of his game.
Buffs offense leaves him open for many good looks
...At least until coaches realized he shoots threes almost exclusively. He is
not a good shooter inside the arc (41%), doesn't get to the line (less than 2 FTA/game) They adjusted defensively and his production fell through the floor. He shot 32.6% from three the last month of the season. And if he's not making those shots, he's not getting any looks closer to the basket. He has to make those shots to get any production closer in.
.....think about what most of us love about hoops. A well executed play resulting in a nice soft 3 ball slipping through the net or a kid like FIlzen trying to break someone down every time down the floor. If you prefer the latter I suspect you are totally enoamoured of the NBA and are lamenting the loss of a season while most of those who really love their TEAMS and programs are happy to have our past time playing and showing the world what a TEAM looks like.
Great. Total red herring, but great.
If you thik Filzner is one dimensional you have not been watching from those fancy courtside seats and paying much attention
It's true. I was eating pretzels.......
perhaps now that you are on press row
Now? Where have you been?
you are happy to echo sentiments of others and pigeon hole kids rather than actually llook at them and figure out what their strengths and weakness' are. That's the kind of stuff that gets me into rant mode.
Yeah. Because I happen to agree with... well, "others" (I don't know who these others are), I don't think for myself. Fact: Two people can't come to the same conclusion independently.
Sorry. SHoddy analysis p o's me.
Funny. I get annoyed when people try to take me to task because they read one thing I write and act like I claimed it as a universal truth. You didn't actually refute my argument, just that you've heard this before, there are guys like him that do more, and I've been echoing the sentiments of others (who are these people?). You say he's not one-dimensional but failed to say what else he does.