[2022 NBA Draft/1-3] Jabari Smith Jr., F, Auburn

Wish he would be more aggressive against these games against paolo

 

Looks like he’s Paolo’s biach

 

I thought he was aggressive early, then he never got the ball again when he was wide open.. oh well..

Jalen and KPJ were really trying to get theirs

 

Hard for him to impose himself on the game when his offensive skillset is so limited.

 

That's like wishing Trevor Ariza would be more aggressive playing against Melo. Different types of players. One facilitates the offense, the other's a role player.

 

said he "had a chip on his shoulder" and shows off with 10 points on 35% shooting

 

It's hard to fault him. We knew he needed someone to set him up for ez looks and we gave him kpj. Basically setting him up for failure the moment we drafted him

 

Dude barely gets the ball. He was supposed to be our zone buster but he was wasted

 

We have a broke man's dollar-store Harden in KPJ, so Jabari is going to have to settle for playing like discount Ariza for now.

 

Silas is waiting until the last few games of the season to teach the team what a zone buster is.

 

Jabari really needs more shots. Shooters are streakier so we can't decide based on his first 5 shots whether or not we should be feeding him.

The starting line up is trying to fix an unfixable problem: there are too many people who want shots in the starting line up. Unfixable by the starters I mean, the coach has to fix it.

 

Pretty much this.

Ego, Kpj, and Green all look for their shots first. Just who they are.

Every other player going to struggle until this changes.

 

Aggressive how. The only chance be had to out play Paolo was to essentially jack up 20 3's and hope he makes half of them

 

I don't understand the logic in getting a player that's having a rough shooting night more shots. He needs to work on his shooting in practice, not in an actual game. He's in the starting lineup and has a high offensive usage rate, so he's getting scoring opportunities. He's just missing them. If his shot is off he needs to find other areas where he can be effective on defense.

 

Being effective on defense only is a net negative.

The logic is simple and you can ask any shooter or scientist on this planet: the fact that you missed shots has nothing to do with whether the next one is going in.

 

Jabari wont be fully unlocked until he either turns into a guy who can create or the ball and body movement drastically improves.

 

KPj needs to be the teams leading shooter moving forward. Also why does anyone except KPj take the technical free throws? He needs to be the only one who takes technicals.

Jabari and Sengun need to understand their place and wait for KPj to call upon them if necessary. But in reality he can beat the other team on his own.

 

KPJ the FEARLESS leader, out to save the day.

 

Rich man’s Sasha Vezenkov.