Henry totally screwed up the low FG% criteria. Good stuff.

respectfully blogfather but you cannot compare a 2nd year Telfair to a 1st year Bayless. Yes their stats are similar if you use that scenario, however you have to look at the amount of minutes that Bayless got vs Telfair 655 vs 1631. There has been much debate about players getting spot minutes and their shooting %s from those limited minutes, especially with a jumpshot.

If you look at Bayless’ #s in the 10 games where he played 20+ mins, he averaged

26.3min
46.8%fg
18%3pt
11pts
3.5ast
1.4to
2.1reb

Everything is pretty good for a rookie except his 3pt%, but it is especially difficult for a elite college player (almost 20ppg, on 45.8%FG and 40.7%3pt% against the TOUGHEST schedule, overall and D) to come onto a winning team and have to go from carrying your team to having to be expected to know when and where to pick your shot and when to pass, which he does not have right now, I will concede.

My contention is that the problem is not in his release, his elevation or anything like that but it is all in his head.

So many times you saw Bayless standing wide open at the 3pt line with Roy/LMA/Oden/Travis in the game and his man off him and you could almost see the wheels turning in his head about what to do.

“Should I shoot it?? What if I miss?? Will Joel yell at me again?? OK just dribble in to see if I can get to the rim and then pass out.”

He does not have that freedom that Mayo, Westbrook or Agustin have on a losing team to shoot, shoot, shoot until you know what a good shot is and all he has to do is get consistent minutes in Nates rotation and he will find that place next year.

No longer will there be that labored, mechanical decision making process on whether or not to shoot, pass or drive, it will be

“My mans off me, let this 3pter fly into the hole, BOOM!! and the crowd goes wild”

I do not see much difference between the role that Bayless can play vs the man we traded him for, Jack. Roy and Jack worked well together 2 years ago and Bayless had similar #s to Jack on a 36 min basis even as a rookie.

You stated in the piece that having a speedy quick PG used to be rare but now is becoming a valuable weapon. I look at our options either via the draft, or via trade and see that our best chance to get one of those type Gs is to develop Bayless. He is immensely coachable, extremely athletic, and has an insatiable drive to get better. The only thing we need to do is let him play.

Still not too stellar.

I used the same essential setup as henry and then used assists per 36 minutes, turnovers per 36, steals per 36, and total rebounds per 36. Its a pretty nice list…

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